To be clear, not talking about this community, obviously 😛.

What’s the point of writing down rules, if mods just do what they want? But I suppose that’s the risk you take when you call someone a liar in a small community; they might be a mod.

Edit: I’m not trying to say that mods suck, they perform a useful and often thankless job. Just that it can be difficult for small communities to get a healthy number of good mods, which can become a problem.

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      while I absolutely agree with you in a private setting, in a public setting I believe it does more harm than good to provide a platform for people to preach hate.

            • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOP
              11·
              1 year ago

              I disagree. Saying certain things are hate crimes, and shouldn’t be allowed. Like burning crosses, etc.

              Deciding where to draw the line is difficult and subjective, but that doesn’t mean that it’s best to have no line.

                • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOP
                  11·
                  1 year ago

                  Free speech already isn’t absolute. Free speech isn’t about words, it’s about expression of opinions. And it’s illegal to express some opinions in some ways. For example you can’t discriminate based on race when you hire employees.

                  We’re already willing to draw a line, and the world hasn’t gone to hell.

                  I actually live in Canada, where we have Hate Speech laws (like exist in many countries), where speech that is significantly harmful to marginalized communities is considered illegal. Despite what the Flu Trucks Clan ironically claim, they’re not being censored.

                  The line isn’t gonna slide one way out of control and nobody can stop it, the line is drawn where the people of the country largely think it should be. In some non-secular countries, the line is drawn very far and I think it’s gross. In other countries like the USA I think the line hasn’t been drawn far enough and people are put in needless harm.

                  Besides, were talking about Lemmy here, not laws for which you can be thrown in jail.