Totalitarians, fascists and other scary governments prosecute you without telling you what you did, and everybody agrees that this is an evil practice. But now it's normal and accepted on social media
People have freedom. This includes the freedom to allow you or disallow you from being around them. You cannot simply break into someone's house and talk to them if they don't want you to, for instance.
Governments do not get this freedom. Governments should and frequently do get constraints that individuals should not.
Here, we are individuals, not governments. This service was made by a bunch of randos, it's theirs. Not all of ours. We are here, in their house, because they invited us. They can disinvite us any time they want, they should and do have that freedom.
Sure, you and I can kick anyone out of your houses for any reason or no reason. But it's kind of a duck move to not tell the person you're booting what they did.
Perhaps, but that’s not what happened in this instance. If you check the mod logs, there’s plenty of explanation for why this user has had comments removed, and has been banned from several communities.
So you’re butthurt that your eugenics threads got deleted? This smells like troll
You're talking about Banning or Canceling?. Either way, is wild to compare prosecution with any of those things.
Actually, censorship is the #1 form of prosecution for scary governments.
Sorry, I sometimes forget who I'm talking to.
Your username makes a lot of sense after reading such opinion, I'm going to be honest.
Do you sincerely think those 2 things are even remotely comparable?
It isn't an evil practice because evil people practice it. It's just an evil practice.
Can we agree on that?
Can we agree on that?
Absolutely fucking not.
Social media companies do not prosecute you in any shape or form. At most the can ban you from using their platforms. That's it.
Being prosecuted by the government of a country (especially a totalitarian one) is an entirely different matter.
And bless your heart for living such a privileged life that you think those 2 things are even on the same level to begin with
No
Ignoring your mixup of persecution and prosecution, it's wild that you're even remotely putting mass execution and imprisonment on the same level as having your singular thread removed from a privately hosted forum that you voluntarily joined.
Censorship by privately run and hosted forums is not remotely equivalent to the horrors of totalitarian and fascist governments. Even if people were to agree that it's evil (which it's not, paradox of tolerance), the comparison is beyond the pale.
This is one of the most chronically online takes I've ever heard.
No, that isn't what I said at all.
Fuckit.
Those prosecute you. People on SM persecute you. Not the same thing.
Although I do agree with the sentiment of "innocent until proven guilty" and give benefit of the doubt without sufficient evidence of any actual wrongdoing. Someone simply saying someone did something isn't proof enough of anything, considering lying exists and can come from either side of the story.
Also, kicking people when they're down isn't something new or special or unique to SM. It's been part of human nature since the dawn of fucking time.
People don't understand that a lot of interactions are driven by corpos paying PR shops to drive desired narratives.
The "modding" everyone complains about is censorship to suppress unfavourable facts. The mods ain't power tripping, their doing their jobs as expected by the handlers.
So it's just efficient? Ok.
Explaining your actions may be the right (prosocial?) thing to do but right is not the point. Control is the point.
And 99% of the people here never say anything deviant enough to get censored over anyway. So what's a few edge cases.
That's kinda cynical, which I can appreciate.
It definitely shows that the power structures have their hands in any relevant social media discussion. I would posit that mods pay critical role with that system.
Most recent example is modding we get on main subs re Luigi... Some how censorship on fedi was stronger than reddit, at least week post the denial of life.
The pattern of behaviour is is the same. Tjere is a topic, it need to be discussed a certain way, people generally small minorities will say wrong thing, they get removed. Narrative holds up.
With Luigi public sentiment was so strong that they could not suppress the genuine public opinion hence why reddit didn't even try for the first week.
Here we had mods argue all sorts of weird shit and none of it really landed. The rules are vague enough to remove any wrong think they need.
Mod logs will show a pattern of behaviour.
Israeli genocide in Gaza is another topic where mods shill regime narratives.
But theh don't do over everything, you can do culture war circle jerk all you want.
Also, mods are no uniform bit mods for each sub have their specific narrative and they will never accept discussions that would undermine it.
You can criticize Israel but only in sanctioned way.
Another example is kamala prez campaign... No discussion, either you shill her or you are removed.
And fedi ain't even a speck on social media land scape but we sure got a full blown gestapo field office to heard 50k monthly users lol
Potatoes. That's the majority. There's no hope here.
Said the potato.
I'm sorry. Being enslaved, jailed, or executed for no reason is NOTHING like getting your comment deleted without a detailed explanation.
If you're feeling oppressed by other people not reading whatever thoughts pop in your head, it might be time to go touch grass, or snow, depending on what's available in your area right now.
Actually, censorship is the #1 form of prosecution for scary governments.
Really hard to avoid Godwin's law in this thread.
In what court are you being prosecuted? State, federal? What laws are you accused of breaking?