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[–]pandorasbox[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Nobody should be banned, ever.. only the OP of a thread should be able to remove or kick someone from a thread topic that he has created.

Imagine if you were talking to someone on your telephone and the line went dead because you had said something that someone at Google didn't approve of?

Video: pleasant green

https://youtu.be/jlvq82lxmVc

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Well, no, telephones are a utility infrastructure, the government has already said that operators can't do what you described. In fact this is such a solved issue that you would literally never need to create a website to provide an alternate utility infrastructure to the phone lines.

"Nobody should ever be banned" is not a functional idea. Its how your nice free speech platform turns into a denialist mess of terrorism and hate. Reality has shown that no amount of "open-ness" will beat the paranoia of saidit's conspiracist operators. You could literally get elected to Congress tomorrow and pass a law which establishes the phone lines as utility infrastructure and these paranoid morons would still be telling each other that Google might make the line go dead from saying bad things. There's no getting through to them, which is why, the ban button is required to maintain a positive atmosphere

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

"Positive atmosphere" is usually defined by denial and intolerance of what's unpopular. It will be a giant circjerk of normie NPCs who are exactly alike and hate anyone different from them. Which is exactly what reddit is.

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

Yeah, Reddit with its millions of subreddits, is a site well known for focusing on single topics only.

People don't hate what's different online. They hate Holocaust denial and racism and Nazi apologia and homophobia. That's what flourishes on saidit (if anything could be described as such here) because it's not allowed on reddit.

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

And we wouldn't have that problem if people weren't so easy to brainwash. Reddit used to be like saidit, and despite having a few racists and Nazis here and there it was mostly not made up of them. And people used to rebut their claims and show how bad they were, rather than banning them and making it look like they're onto something.