At least for me its very difficult to make the line between preventing hate speech and allowing the freedom. I’m thinking to launch a lemmy instance, but the targeted audience is very sensitive to religion topics, and i’m sure if i allow it, this could lead to hate speech at some point and may fuel violence. Also, from my prospective, i just want my audience find new good things far from porn, porn sites are a lot, and i don`t want to mix it with other topics that can very constructive.

So please tell me your opinion, if banning these 2 topics can effect the freedom of speech.

  • @DPUGT2@lemmy.ml
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    02 years ago

    What you’re trying to implement are effective house rules

    Which should be besides the point.

    You’re focused on his intentions. We should be focused on his results. Or, even more so, on the aggregate results of many people doing the same thing he will do.

    If you focus only on the intentions, bad things will happen and you will all be confused as to why the world became a worse place than it was previously. Intentions don’t count for shit. And if you focus only on a single instance, you will be confused by all the emergent phenomena that just aren’t recognizable until you’ve scaled this up x1000.

    Without simple rules like that,

    Haha. “Simple rules”. I think they’re part of the definition itself of emergent phenomena.

    • @MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml
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      12 years ago

      So what’s your solution or answer to OP’s questions? You wrote a lot but I really don’t feel like you made any good points.

    • @testingthis@lemmy.ml
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      12 years ago

      Interesting perspective. I do agree that the comment you were replying to may be more than slightly out-of-touch