Where’s The Line On Moderation? - Sue Donym

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[–]reluctant_commenter 27 insightful - 2 fun27 insightful - 1 fun28 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I love this article, it's well-written and accurate. There are so many good quotes I don't even know what to quote.

The capacity to believe nonsense is something inborn — everyone has it.

EXACTLY. The tribalistic mindset that many people have about politics leads people to miss that sometimes, their team is wrong and sometimes, THEY are wrong. Suggestions otherwise are perceived as threats to the in-group.

It’s a situation that’s screaming for public regulation.

Damn right it is.

A lot of people get news, opinions, and discussion on Reddit, and it’s being curated and moderated by an unelected group of straight white male super-nerds pretending to be lesbians. That’s insane.

Which is ironic, because far-left people obsessed with identity politics ought to be losing their minds over privileged white straight males dominating the conversation. But they only call it out if those men are disagreeing with them. (I'm liberal but this hypocrisy is prevalent and it frustrates me.)

There is a fundamental risk of the loss of the right to speak freely, and if we lose that, we lose one of the first gay rights victories.

Love the tie-in. It's true.

Thank you for sharing! I'm guessing you wrote this, since your username is similar? Nice job.

[–]ThiccDropkickGay 20 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

their ‘approved’ lesbian subreddit ‘r/actuallesbians’ has no actual lesbian moderators— they are either bisexual women or have a penis

If someone can back this up it’d be hilarious but bleak lol

[–]reluctant_commenter 29 insightful - 3 fun29 insightful - 2 fun30 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

I'll double check. I thought there might have been at least one but I know the vast majority are transwomen.

edit: Here's my cursory summary.

Reddit "actuallesbian" mods as of my looking right now (early January 2021): https://www.reddit.com/r/actuallesbians/about/

  • u/mollymollykelkel -- "AFAB", "queer", GNC, trans

  • u/anace -- presumably asexual from the name, otherwise unsure

  • u/LIATG -- "queer", unconfirmed if trans, posts/comments about trans topics

  • u/Celesmeh -- posts a lot about trans issues, may be trans? claims to have ADHD, OCD, PTSD, and an anxiety disorder (experts question whether you can have both OCD/ADHD... the areas of the brain implicated in symptoms tend to be different, AFAIK)

  • u/merghs - no idea. Seems kind of inactive. I'm inclined to guess MTF because they work in software engineering and many MTFs are really into programming, but I'm a lesbian programmer so maybe I shouldn't assume, lol.

  • u/nekosune -- trans

  • u/thesentinel_19 -- 0 comments and posts, impossible to tell. Maybe somebody's alt.

  • u/transgenderpride -- trans, MTF (did the name give it away? lol)

  • u/thereisonlystardust -- bisexual, can't tell if trans

Also also--

  1. Saw at least 2 mods who claimed to have dissociative identity disorder (DID). Fascinating!

  2. The last one on the list is a mod of both r/bisexual and r/actuallesbians.

edit2: typos and crap.

[–]GoValidateYourselfuseful lesbian 9 insightful - 9 fun9 insightful - 8 fun10 insightful - 9 fun -  (2 children)

LOL imagine if the 2 with Dissociative Identity Disorder are just one person, but 2 alters, and they don't know! XD

[–]PassionateIntensity 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

BTW this is a thing. A shitload of trans trendsters also self-diagnose as "systems"/DID and spend lots of time online talking about their fake alternate personalities. None of it is real.

[–]reluctant_commenter 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep it is! I did a post that looked at several overlaps with the trans people who have been "colonizing" LGB online communities, and tulpas was one of them. https://saidit.net/s/LGBDropTheT/comments/72bs/who_are_the_transgenderidentified_colonizers_of/

Also, a user here wrote a great comment a while back about how the transgender trend may be a spiritual successor to the Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) trend in the late 1900s. I can go find that comment if you're interested.

And... if you go to the subreddit overlaps website, there's a lot of overlap between "DID" and "DIDillnessfakers" and I kind of wonder if some of the people with "DID" are also making it up but criticizing everyone else for making it up, lol.

[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When you have mental health issues, it makes socially navigating meatspace rather difficult. Reddit, with its text-only medium and socially unambiguous upvote/downvote system, becomes a compelling way to interact with other people.

[–]PassionateIntensity 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

They had an FTM mod at one point who was an actual lesbian, but she ID'ed as a straight man. 😉

[–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good lord. They can't even be consistent about their own beliefs, let alone be consistent about claims that have scientific evidence behind them.

[–]SedateApe 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Go visit and drop a random, non-inflammatory, comment about lesbians enjoy vagina on vagina sex. See how long your post stays up and how quickly you get perma banned.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is an excellent piece, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

[–]zephyranthes 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

[Apple and Google] effectively have a duopoly on what applications you can download on your phone

They don't. They have a near-duopoly on monetization, but it doesn't matter much because the real monetization bottleneck is narrower still.

[–]reluctant_commenter 14 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

Apple and Google] effectively have a duopoly on what applications you can download on your phone

Actually, this statement is correct, because they said "effectively"-- and in effect, this is true. Apple and Google are able to remove what applications are available on their stores or prevent applications from being added to their stores, and they do have a duopoly on operating systems for mobile. (Unless you're counting Windows phones as a major player, lol.)

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Weren’t Windows phones discontinued a couple of years ago?

[–]reluctant_commenter 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, and I don't even know of any other operating systems for phones besides those three.

edit: It makes sense that there are many other niche OSes as well; my point is that while there are others, the market share of OSes on phones is vastly covered by Google and Apple.

[–]NeedMoreCoffee~=[,,_,,]=^_^= 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

There are linux phones but its not widely known by the public.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Huawei are developing HarmonyOS, but they’re Chinese. The Chinese government interferes in corporate affairs to push a narrative that benefits the CCP.

Remember that most people did not have a smartphone until early last decade. Yet people were still able to spread ideas without them.

[–]SkinnyVanilla 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I had a Windows phone for a while. Honestly, I loved the interface, but the inability to get all the same apps as Google/Apple (or even reasonable equivalents) was the reason I discarded it.