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[–]TheBeefBenson 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I am not in favour of out right censorship but we need to make s/all a welcoming neutral place if saidit is going to grow and survive. People don't want to visit /pol/ in reddit format. People don't want to see posts stirring up resentment and hatred based on race or sex or religion. Speech shouldn't be censored but it should be mature and aware of it's audience if it's taking up the central stage, and if a person isn't willing to do that then they should be put in their own room with others like themselves. So I think any sub that allows content that is off the classically liberal center, that which a moderate left winger and moderate right winger could usually agree on or politely agree to disagree, should be removed from s/all instead of moderate subs being forced to remove themselves if they don't want to have to deal with randoms wandering into their sub from the online equivalent of a Nuremberg rally. Saidit's aim should be trying to be a reflection of what the majority of the people in the western world think, whilst allowing the radicals a space at the back. And race baiters and supremacists have never been part of the west's center stage. It's been 80 years since WWII and racial supremacism is as repellent now as it was then.

Polite speech and free speech are not mutually exclusive.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I disagree that SaidIt should regulate what opinions are acceptable on the front page. And I strongly disagree that it's a problem if people with what seem like extreme views visit spaces for moderate politics.

Important truths have often been suppressed by being smeared as "extreme" or "vile" or whatever.

I think the pyramid of debate rule is supposed to be the way to get to high quality discussion on SaidIt, instead of doing viewpoint censorship. (though I do think some of that goes on too, which I don't like.)

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

I'm sure at some point in history some drunk, crazy, homeless, crackhead figured out an important truth and yelled it out at passers by... in the middle of a sea of other crazy, meth heads who were talking absolute rubbish. Should we let them all take centre stage of a platform designed for good discussions, or have some sort of code of conduct?

I don't think posts that essentially just say "da Jews dun did it" or look to frame every black person like they're an ape or a criminal have any place in reasonable discourse. Even under the pyramid of debate rule absolute nonsense can take over the site if extremist looms are allowed to take it over.

I don't want to see this platform become another Voat and it will.