> Rosa Parks wasn't advocating throwing molotov cocktails at bus drivers, she sat in the wrong damn seat in an act of civil disobedience.
Agreed. But because some others didn't take her approach to civils rights, but were violent, why should she be canceled? It would be interesting to ask people at that time in history whether they saw her actions as violence or inciting violence. I bet the answer is a big ol' yes. I bet even many thought it was inciting the overthrow society/government.
Shadow banning is some real underhanded sh#t. On reddit I explained that mayor Pete's M4A wasn't the same M4A as the world understood it. A user immediately responds accusing of me editing my comment to deceive. I say prove it you f#cking liar, there are services that archive. Then I'm hit with the ban for being profane and harassing. Yup, turns out the comment had been very quickly shadow-banned lol. I should have known. But this might inform people that its not only conservatives who's speech is threatened; it's anyone who speaks contrary to the mainstream.
People who use profanity and personal insults tend to heavily degrade the quality of a forum. And when banned, they react angrily and make alternate accounts again and again.
A shadowban reduces the incentive to dodge bans via new usernames. Reddit mods don’t have Ip address access or other tools, so shadowbans are a necessary tool.
You weren’t banned for speaking contrary to the mainstream. You were banned for insults and personal attacks, indicating you weren’t likely to lead to productive conversations.
But let me actually amend my comment above here, it wasn't even that bad, the actual words were "lying a#s." I just felt like there was an interaction that didn't need to happen because people see different sets of comments, my original comment being nothing but fact and dry. I don't know how we can talk much about profanity derailing discussion when discussion is so fundamentally broken.
Yeah I actually do think that the profanity can indicate more honesty. The trouble is, if it’s also combined with a personal attack on others it inflames conversations. Two people can then rile themselves up and derail an entire thread.
Of course the comment replying to you did the same thing: made a personal attack on you, and it derailed you into a personal attack with swearing.
Sure. And what's most interesting to me is that both personal attacks and swearing were caused by this underhanded version of censorship. It in effect caused what it is supposed to solve.
Happens every day. Mods can do a form of shadowbanning on a specific subreddit. So the very active and unaware can keep posting and posting and not know.
I don’t necessarily think this is unreasonable if used judiciously against the type of account which has shown unwillingness to heed rules or mod warnings.
> But this might inform people that its not only conservatives who's speech is threatened
Agree that it's all over the place, but it's depressing to see left's attitude that they have the numbers now to attack the same free speech which helped so many efforts in the last twenty years.
Democrats have fought him tooth and nail for four years,tried to impeach him, claimed his presidency is not legit and a sham or worse. So why do they need or want some symbolic transfer of power from a foreign operative taking orders from Putin ;) It seems he is only now accepted as president at zero hour so he can symbolically pass the torch.
Unless you are doing something novel, not so much imo. I generally trust standard approaches and tools, I'm not trying to write my own encryption, right, or reinvent wheels. You can often get by with no real understanding of the underlying math, just what you put in, what you get out, and what that generally means. Lots of respect to you math geniuses who make it all possible. I'd rather play and prototype stuff than perfect and get into the nitty gritty. But math in programming is great for learning and understanding, it being actually applied.
these smart home devices are terrible. That alexa needs an internet connection to operate sucks. I'm already giving up tons of privacy and now when my internet inevitably goes down nothing in my house works, it becomes a stupid home.
The censorship is getting scary. I'm recently permabanned from reddit for being too progressive. I shouldn't have criticized mayor Pete for his takes on M4A on the politics sub. Both ends of the spectrum are being deplatformed.
This is tangential, but I'm quite suprised at the personality cult that's developed around Buttigieg. It's quite small, but nonetheless impressive for someone so milquetoast. I've always dismissed him as a gay Beto O'rourke, but clearly there's something I've missed.
Yeah I agree about the keybinds. With blender, something as simple as left clicking to select objects can make a huge impact learning and using software when you don't have to reset your brain constantly. It can be tough to have like 3 different sets of keys used to navigate different 3d viewports.
Agreed. But because some others didn't take her approach to civils rights, but were violent, why should she be canceled? It would be interesting to ask people at that time in history whether they saw her actions as violence or inciting violence. I bet the answer is a big ol' yes. I bet even many thought it was inciting the overthrow society/government.