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8 votes
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Inside Facebook’s secret rulebook for global political speech
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A Texas elementary school speech pathologist refused to sign a pro-Israel oath, so she lost her job
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Cloudflare is providing services to at least seven designated foreign terrorist organizations and militant groups
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Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics?
20 votes -
Welcome to the ‘New Turkey': Five years after Gezi park, protesters face new threats of arrest
7 votes -
Outrage over deplatforming is about money, not free speech
8 votes -
FCC Republican claims municipal broadband is threat to First Amendment
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Calling prophet Muhammad a pedophile does not fall within freedom of speech: European court
39 votes -
Tucker Carlson says he can't go to restaurants anymore
12 votes -
Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
8 votes -
Why are African governments criminalising online speech? Because they fear it.
8 votes -
Trump Administration seeks to stifle protests near White House and on National Mall
7 votes -
Abortion laws: Australian High Court prepares to hear challenge to picketing ban
7 votes -
Justice Department probes whether social media is 'stifling' speech
7 votes -
The FBI used the #MeToo movement to pressure an environmental activist into becoming an informant
12 votes -
The myth of a campus free speech crisis
8 votes -
'Damoclean sword': Michaela Banerji is still fighting after five years. The former Immigration Department official said her sacking after a tweet "drove a stake" through her.
3 votes -
3D printable guns as free speech?
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Internet publication of 3D printing files about guns: Facts and what's at stake
7 votes -
Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason
17 votes -
Newly released documents reveal Memphis police have been spying on Black Lives Matter activists
8 votes -
I'm challenging a DoD OIG subpoena over "insulting and prejudicial comments"
13 votes -
US judge blocks attempt to post blueprints for 3D guns
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Is there a space for the extremes of "alt right" on Tildes?
I posted this recently during a discussion on reddit on thread locking and wanted to post it here for discussion as well. There's no room in a decent society for those who advocate for "race...
I posted this recently during a discussion on reddit on thread locking and wanted to post it here for discussion as well.
There's no room in a decent society for those who advocate for "race realism", deny the holocaust, or believe women are all mindless whores who can't think for themselves. If that's your (general you) idea of a useful contribution, create your own sub and be as hateful as you want, but I have no obligation to provide a platform for hatred on a sub that's dedicated to, for example, gifs of puppies and kittens.
Tildes is intended to be a place for insightful, high quality discussion. Can people who advocate for topics like race realism be part of that conversation?
Note: I am not necessarily suggesting that such topics be banned from tildes, I'd just like to hear opinions on this topic.
Edit: I posted this same topic, lightly revised, on /r/theoryofreddit to see the difference in responses. It's been enlightening.
40 votes -
The free speech panic: How the right concocted a crisis
8 votes -
GOP to Silicon Valley: Promote the far right or else
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The AskHistorians subreddit banned Holocaust deniers, and Facebook should too
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Reddit suspends user for posting CEO’s position on hate speech
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The ACLU retreats from free expression
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The ACLU retreats from free expression
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Community groups welcome passing of race hate laws
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It's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake: LGBT+ discrimination
Well, there comes a time in every community's existence where someone gets an idea for discussion from another thread he wishes were better framed. So buckle in. This discussion is intended to sit...
Well, there comes a time in every community's existence where someone gets an idea for discussion from another thread he wishes were better framed. So buckle in. This discussion is intended to sit at an uncomfortable cultural crossroads.
In the EU, gay spouses are now able to have the same freedom of movement rights as straight spouses. The Supreme Court in the United States ruled that a baker was treated unfairly by a Colorado regulatory commission when they tried to suss out if he discriminated against a gay couple who wanted to purchase a wedding cake.
In Brazil (you thought I was going to let this one be), courts have explicitly allowed conversion therapy to continue.
In Chechnya (a part of Russia that I always seem to struggle to spell), you could be hunted down and tortured or killed if you were gay, with people turning their own family members over to the local government. The local government, in absurdity, claimed after the purge that there were "no gays" in Chechnya, so there could have been no purge.
The point I'm trying to make here is that LGBT+ discrimination is an issue that should touch just about everywhere.
Before we get too deep, a point on terms. Discrimination, strictly speaking, is separating one thing from another. It is not necessarily a hostile act. If I say "you can drive only if your vision is good enough to read signs while you drive," that is discrimination on the basis of your ability to see, but most people aren't likely to say it's unreasonable discrimination (there is a rather obvious safety implication, for starters). Similarly, if you tell women to go to the bathroom in one space, and men to go to the bathroom in another space, that is discrimination based on gender. Is it reasonable discrimination? That might depend on if you're trans, and what state you're in.
This topic has to be more limited than this set up implies it will be. We won't be able to narrow things well enough to have a meaningful discussion otherwise. Today, we're just going to touch on the simple (ha!) matter of whether baking a wedding cake is art, whether refusing a wedding cake to a gay couple is discrimination, and what a government should be expected to do about it. So, the questions:
- Is making a custom wedding cake for a wedding "art"?
- Is refusing a custom wedding cake to a couple because it would be for a cause you do not support discrimination on the basis of that couple's identity?
- How should a just government resolve a dispute between a couple who feel unreasonably discriminated against and an artist who feels compelled to use speech for a cause they do not support?
And a bonus question:
- What role should a judicial branch have in advancing various groups' rights? Does relying on this less democratic method for securing rights open a movement up to counter-reaction or is the counter-reaction simply an inevitable consequence of a movement's success?
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How do you think social networks should handle hate speech?
A bit of context: in July 2017 germany implemented the Netzdurchsetzungsgesetz, a law which allows german authorities to fine Social Media companies with over 2 million users if they persistently...
A bit of context: in July 2017 germany implemented the Netzdurchsetzungsgesetz, a law which allows german authorities to fine Social Media companies with over 2 million users if they persistently fail to remove obvious hatespeech within 24 hours and all other cases within a week. A write up of the law and background information. Information about the definition of hate sepeech in germany.
I am interested in your opinion: Is this governmental overreach and infringes on the freedom of speech or is this a long needed step to ensure that people feel safe and current german law is finally being followed?
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The case for quarantining extremist ideas
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Rosanne Barr and now Samantha Bee, does the punishment fit the crime?
You may have heard that Roseanne Barr made a horrible comment/joke on her Twitter account - this lead to the cancelation of her show, Rosanne. Then, Samantha Bee made a horrible comment/joke on...
You may have heard that Roseanne Barr made a horrible comment/joke on her Twitter account - this lead to the cancelation of her show, Rosanne.
Then, Samantha Bee made a horrible comment/joke on her show about Ivanka Trump that has prompted an apology, and an advertiser exit (so far).
If Samantha Bee is canceled too, does the punishment fit? Did Rosanne deserve to see her show canceled? Is there (or should there be) a limit to what comedians can say on TV or online?
Note: Typed this out on mobile, so may need corrections later. Edit: Added links, corrections. Edit again, update Bee's details.
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NFL clubs to be fined if players kneel during anthem
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Thoughts on addressing the filter bubble (echo chambers & "fake news"), scalability & free speech
Hi there! First things first, I just want to say thank you for the invite, but more importantly, thank you for taking the time to create this platform. I, as I imagine most people on here, have a...
Hi there!
First things first, I just want to say thank you for the invite, but more importantly, thank you for taking the time to create this platform. I, as I imagine most people on here, have a love-hate relationship with reddit. Clearly the site has had a tremendous impact, in many ways positive, but with many things structurally and fundamentally holding it back. I've been a subscriber to /r/RedditAlternatives/ for a while, and there have been very few sites that have compelled me to learn more and actively take part in them, and yours is of course one of them. I just got done reading all of the articles on your docs page and was very pleased - "finally", I thought, someone who's taken into account all of the articles on the internet that have been written about designing and building communities, from both a social and technical perspective, and put it into practice. You've addressed many issues that are often ignored by the platforms themselves and done it in a brilliant way so as to ensure that our voices are heard first and foremost, and I think that's just awesome.
Okay, now that all the praise is out of the way... :P
I did notice something that was not addressed in the docs pages, so I'll be blunt and simply ask: how do you plan to address the filter bubble, or rather, do you plan to address it at all? Maximizing user freedom regarding which communities you want to see content from seems obvious, but that inevitably ends up with users being stuck in their own bubble. reddit already has an infamous reputation of being an echo chamber, and gives users tools to make it an even bigger echo chamber. A long time ago, there was a commonly held belief that the internet would bring us closer together because it would force us to expand our worldviews and interact with people as people, not knowing where they're from or who they are (the "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" saying about anonymity). As reddit moves more and more toward becoming a social network like Facebook and less like the pseudonymous and anonymous internet discussion forums of old, this problem has only gotten worse, to the point of having real-world political and social consequences (especially with the increasing deluge of so-called "fake news"). I'd really like to hear your take on it.
I do have other concerns, namely: scalability, and the stance on free speech. The donation model has worked well for Wikipedia, but, well, they're Wikipedia. They're an incredibly important resource and people have clearly valued their resource so as to have sustained their model, mass donation drives with Jimbo Wales' face plastered all over the site notwithstanding. If tildes becomes the Wikipedia of internet discussion platforms, I am sure many people will find it valuable enough to donate to, though I am still not sold on how sustainable it really is.
The stance on free speech in the announcement blog post also has me concerned. As you mentioned, it is a difficult topic; that much is clear. I am mostly just curious as to where the lines are drawn in regards to how "threats, harassment, and hate speech" are defined. With an absolutist position like "we are 100% pro-free speech", things are very clear and simple, whereas any other position, I believe, comes down to the whim of the moderators/admins. Certainly most people will generally follow the golden rule and abide by basic common sense and decency (i.e. "don't be a dick"), but when discussions get heated I think it's important to not have a reasonable fear that you're going to get permabanned because you hurt someone's feelings (just as an example).
All these issues aside, I am very excited about the development of tildes and hope you & the community can come up with excellent technical and social solutions to these difficult problems.
Thanks for taking the time to read this!
(p.s. apologies for not posting this in the daily discussion topic, thought it warranted its own topic)
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26 votes