classical liberalism is rejected by a lot of the defederating leftwing of today
I think it may end up harming them so perhaps it can be good for us that they take these kinds of stances, it makes them look weak and unable to debate or have a conversation
How is this about free speech? People on this server can say whatever they want as long as they follow the server rules. If you go to another server, there are other rules.
In the real world, you also have freedom of speech (optimally), but if you go to another man's house and insult his wife, you don't have to be suprised if that man tells you to leave..
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Your example doesn’t fit bc you are trying to use a private space as an example of a public forum.
But it's not a public forum, at the end of the day it is a private space.. The server is rented by somebody, that somebody is paying for that server and that somebody can choose to do with that server whatever they want.. If somebody choose to host a private lemmy server where only they themselves are allowed, that's their right.
But if you open a place, real or digital, with the express purpose of having freeform or political discussions with large groups of people that you don’t personally know, e.g. a public forum/townhall/etc
But that's not even remotely what lemmy.world is supposed to be.. They choose to allow anyone who follows the rules, but they are very very clear that they are not "a free speech zone." and the rules are very strict, much stricter than twitter, reddit or most other social media sites, so I seriously don't understand how you can make the argument that lemmy.world is supposed to be a "townhall"..
I would argue that suppressing that kind of language
Nobody is suppressing your language.. You are free to say whatever you want on instances that support it.. Nobody is shutting down exploding-heads, but you can't expect somebody else to host content that they don't want to host on their servers, just as they cannot force this sites' admin to host content they don't want...
You have an argument when it comes to centralized social media, such as twitter, reddit, etc. where you are dependent on the company that runs the site. But with lemmy, you have free access to the code and are free to run your own server however you choose.
