alt Hacker NewsCensorship here is specifically moderation of discussion of political assassinations, and NSFW fetish art work? I think its good to have a space for people to do "shadow work", but also I'm terrified by the path that neo-facist idiology took from 4chan /pol -> gaming culture -> the white house.
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ddtaylor • today at 6:26 AM
Reminds me of when a terrible person I don't agree with gets deplatformed. Historically freedom of speech has been defended by those usually icky things and silencing them often just makes them more powerful.
> discussion of political assassinations
This is one of those things that gets categorized one way or the other depending on whether you're respectably right-wing enough. People have been selling firing range targets with their political enemies on, and even in a couple of cases using them in campaigns, for a long time. And now political assassination is official US state policy!
> the path that neo-fascist ideology took from 4chan /pol -> gaming culture -> the white house
Yes, although I think that shows how difficult it is to moderate against ideology which can be smuggled in through "reasonable concerns".