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[–]Zahn 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I don't like reading all the gross stuff at some more fully free speech places

Ya know, you don't actually have to read it. Just skip past it.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

It's certainly going to get interesting here with a bunch of old school angry feminists and a load of edgy teens trying to out racist each other.

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Then let it get interesting. Freedom of speech is a better way to weed out bad ideas than moderation teams. If the masses are asses and espouse a bad idea, then it is usually even less likely for a select few to have better ideas in the long run, because those select few change over time. Someone else will wield the power or sit on the throne.

Even people on 4chan generally acknowledge where their opinions go too far, even when there seems to be an overwhelming group dynamic to tend towards a certain position. You might hear words like nigger there all the time and have posts making fun of IQ average of black people, but enough people will also acknowledge intelligent individuals from the same populations, such as Thomas Sowell. Freedom of speech is a better self-correction mechanism than censorship

Maybe your comment already agreed with that. I don't know. I am not saying this with the intention to argue, just share my opinion in the place in this thread where it seems to fit.

[–]emptiedriver 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

there are issues when you have people responding to your comments/ conversations, though. If you join a community that is dominated by really awful and unsalvageable commentators, it takes a lot of commitment before you can get a good group of engaged and sincere members who are willing to stick around...