Accurate political compass of websites, or nah?

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Can anyone confirm the Voat, poal, and 8Chan differences? Picking up on authoritarian vs. libertarian is hard sometimes. The rest seems legit.

[–]go1dfish 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Voat used to have more libertarians but they've been less active and visible over time as the structure of the site re-inforces the views of the more dominant authoritarians.

In theory Voat's policy is fairly libertarian, but the selection biases of its growth and the dynamics of CCP restrictions and signup gating have molded it into a near mirror image of the worst communities reddit has banned but worse because they have less and less connection to other views and more power to exclude others via CCP.

Ironically Voat democratically excludes democratic or non-authoritarian views.

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8pol had many more shills, and a bunch of agent provocateurs. Poal is more polite voat. The thing is, many of the folks on these sites have economic values that would not traditionally be considered "right wing".

Authoritarian versus Libertarian is easy.

At it's core Authoritarianism believes that you can't have a functional society without the state acting as the arbiter of morality for individuals and corporations. In addition there is a general distrust and dislike of universal suffrage and systems of democracy that give, say; a single mother with 5 kids by different fathers - the same amount of authority over the government as a respectable member of society.

One sentence? A belief in hierarchy and that some morals and values are objectively superior to others.

Libertarians believe no one entity can be trusted with that much power, and we'd be better off in a Darwinian situation where corporations, gangs, and individuals with the most weapons and will to use them compete for control.

One sentence? A disbelief in hierarchy, and that morality and values are subjective.