With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
To do what you propose in 2 and 3 is to deny freedom of speech. It's a slippery slope. I mean just look over at reddit. I just caught them secretly adding 200,000 votes to President Obama's AMA from 4 years ago so that it appears at the top of /r/all, because to hell with what people actually upvoted. The admins want to control what you see but will ban others who they think are doing the same. I even had trouble posting this finding because reddit did some shady shadow banning of me. Reddit wasn't always like this, but over time they made a number of seemingly reasonable steps in this direction, each step was made carefully with the best of intentions.
It's easy to justify options 2 and 3 for something called /v/niggers, it's much harder to keep doing 1 and defend their right to say what they want. But freedom is not supposed to be easy. You know what the right thing to do is. And yes, you will be mocked. And yes, you will probably have to do it again. And again. AND AGAIN. But that is how it must be. Going with popular opinion over principles always bites you end in the end. Thankfully, the people here are here because their opinions are not always popular and they have faced heavy pushback from social conformists. Voat is one place where I suspect the majority will insist that you keep doing 1. And we will continue to be mocked for it. In return, we get true freedom. Sounds like a good deal to me!
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With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
To do what you propose in 2 and 3 is to deny freedom of speech. It's a slippery slope. I mean just look over at reddit. I just caught them secretly adding 200,000 votes to President Obama's AMA from 4 years ago so that it appears at the top of /r/all, because to hell with what people actually upvoted. The admins want to control what you see but will ban others who they think are doing the same. I even had trouble posting this finding because reddit did some shady shadow banning of me. Reddit wasn't always like this, but over time they made a number of seemingly reasonable steps in this direction, each step was made carefully with the best of intentions.
It's easy to justify options 2 and 3 for something called /v/niggers, it's much harder to keep doing 1 and defend their right to say what they want. But freedom is not supposed to be easy. You know what the right thing to do is. And yes, you will be mocked. And yes, you will probably have to do it again. And again. AND AGAIN. But that is how it must be. Going with popular opinion over principles always bites you end in the end. Thankfully, the people here are here because their opinions are not always popular and they have faced heavy pushback from social conformists. Voat is one place where I suspect the majority will insist that you keep doing 1. And we will continue to be mocked for it. In return, we get true freedom. Sounds like a good deal to me!