> Toxicity is when a site devoted to people mourning a synagogue massacre is overwhelmed by spamming neo-nazis.
> Toxicity is annihilating a site's function: a site where climate scientists discuss findings needs to be free of an flood of spam from climate change deniers and paid petroleum sock puppets. Such a site exists for people to do their job not waste every day repeating the same basic information available elsewhere easier to people who came intentionally to disrupt.
You only have to look around on this thread to see that "silencing everyone who disagrees with you" is exactly what's being suggested.
Reddit/Facebook/Twitter are being held up as examples of places where deplatforming has worked, and where deplatforming should be more broadly applied. These aren't single-function sites.
Moderation to keep discussions on a topic existed long before deplatforming, and is not the same thing.
> That is not remotely what is being suggested.
> Toxicity is when a site devoted to people mourning a synagogue massacre is overwhelmed by spamming neo-nazis.
> Toxicity is annihilating a site's function: a site where climate scientists discuss findings needs to be free of an flood of spam from climate change deniers and paid petroleum sock puppets. Such a site exists for people to do their job not waste every day repeating the same basic information available elsewhere easier to people who came intentionally to disrupt.
You only have to look around on this thread to see that "silencing everyone who disagrees with you" is exactly what's being suggested.
Reddit/Facebook/Twitter are being held up as examples of places where deplatforming has worked, and where deplatforming should be more broadly applied. These aren't single-function sites.
Moderation to keep discussions on a topic existed long before deplatforming, and is not the same thing.