• DominicHillsun@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How about just deal with it? Internet is meant to be free space, that includes racists, bigots, rednecks, people you disagree with.

    Lemmy is worried about 1984 but in actuality is becoming Fahrenheit 451.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, no. The Internet isn’t meant to be a safe space for bigots. They’re free to post and everyone else is free to chase them back under the rock where they belong.

    • gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      My brother in Christ, you are conflating free speech with the freedom from consequences. You are free to express your opinions. You will not be arrested for that. You can use the internet however you wish to express whatever opinions you have, no matter how stupid or hateful they are.

      However, if your opinion sucks, the community will “deal with it” by down voting your dumb ass, and if you piss enough people off, you’ll get banned. Your rights have not been infringed. You’re just an asshole and people don’t want to listen to you anymore. You can freely go complain about it somewhere else.

      I’m sure there is a community on the Internet that would welcome your shitty opinions into their little echo chamber. Go there if you don’t like it here. Or, as you say: “deal with it”.

    • dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Lemmy is worried about 1984 but in actuality is becoming Fahrenheit 451.

      I don’t think you’ve read either book because that analogy makes absolutely no sense.

      • DominicHillsun@lemmy.world
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        I’ll make the analogy more clear to you. In 1984 the government got absolute information control, thats what you guys are worried about. In Fahrenheit 451 people themselves censored everything that offended anyone, eventually leading to all the books being burnt.

        People have opinions, and lemmy is becoming a worse echochamber than reddit.