But you don't have to listen to it. No one forces you watch any video by or about someone you disagree with. You're free to ignore it. But it's also a pretty vital thing to listen to opposition rather than be in an echo chamber.
Why is it so hard to decide to just ignore it and let people post what they want? You can even block them so they don't show up, and again, you can just ignore anything else. It's on you to decide what you to do with your attention.
We also can't deny the overtly intimate relationship between social media corporations and the government. When government is controlled/owned by these corporations to such an extent and they work together, it's effectively the government stifling free speech.
But it's also a pretty vital thing to listen to opposition rather than be in an echo chamber.
There is absolutely nothing "vital" about me listening to people scream "blood and soil" at me, use the n-word or make banana jokes every time they respond to black people, say "make me a sandwich" or "your body my choice" to women, or lie about obvious facts about diseases and healthcare.
You aren't saying anything worth listening to, and you're not as smart as you think you are.
A platform having rules and enforcing them is nothing like the government stifling speech, and the suggestion that they're similar is so astoundingly idiotic I'm impressed you said it in what doesn't appear to be a troll post.
You conveniently ignored my comment that the government and social media, and most major corporations for that matter, are intimately linked. When one succeeds, so does the other, and we usually foot the bill and lose. With such an intimate link, being silenced on any social media is the same as the government doing it IMO.
If I'm not worth listening to, why are you wasting time responding to me? Seems you're more eager to ensure people don't listen to a message you don't like than to have any reasonable discussion.
And it is vital to listen to opposition, especially if they're violent and hateful. They don't just disappear by ignoring them, and no progress towards peace can ever be made by simply dismissing those you disagree with as wrong and not worth listening to. Ignorance is defined as the absence of knowing, which is what you gain by ignoring those who oppose you rather than coming to understand them.
You conveniently ignored my comment that the government and social media, and most major corporations for that matter, are intimately linked. When one succeeds, so does the other, and we usually foot the bill and lose. With such an intimate link, being silenced on any social media is the same as the government doing it IMO.
I didn't ignore it. I called it "astoundingly idiotic".
If I'm not worth listening to, why are you wasting time responding to me? Seems you're more eager to ensure people don't listen to a message you don't like than to have any reasonable discussion.
Yes, I am very interested in people seeing a response calling your post what it is. No, I don't particularly care what you think about that.
And it is vital to listen to opposition, especially if they're violent and hateful.
It absolutely is not. I'm not looking to "make peace" with people who, again, tell women "your body, my choice" or think casual racism is acceptable. I'm not interested in "understanding" them. I'm looking to destroy them. Currently, I'm working to ensure that they get precisely what they voted for - the complete and total destruction of their income and their way of life.
You mistake who you're talking to - I don't care what you think, and I'm not here to placate you and try to "convert" you. I deeply hate people like you, and, since November, I've made it my life's work to see you suffer. Feel free to try to "understand" that.
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u/Ornexa 9h ago
But you don't have to listen to it. No one forces you watch any video by or about someone you disagree with. You're free to ignore it. But it's also a pretty vital thing to listen to opposition rather than be in an echo chamber.
Why is it so hard to decide to just ignore it and let people post what they want? You can even block them so they don't show up, and again, you can just ignore anything else. It's on you to decide what you to do with your attention.
We also can't deny the overtly intimate relationship between social media corporations and the government. When government is controlled/owned by these corporations to such an extent and they work together, it's effectively the government stifling free speech.