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  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 12:17am

    They don't own the farm on which the union organizers were invited. When you have a plumber fix your toilet, they don't get to invite other people into your home. Unless the government says they can. We had to have a special amendment that said the government couldn't quarter soldiers in your house. Because normally the people with guns get to do whatever they want. But I suppose people who think that men can be turned into women don't have the firmest grasp on reality.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 May, 2022 @ 12:08am

    Woke gender ideology, for one. Using deadly force against rioters, looters, and arsonists, for another.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 27 May, 2022 @ 08:06am

    I’m concerned because a society that affirms lies as truth is a society that will jump off a cliff thinking that it can fly. I do not want woke gender ideology to be affirmed for the same reason I do not want [i________n] as a cure for [C______9] to be affirmed. Because they are lies. (Trying this way because my spelled-out version seems to be trapped in an actual comment blocker.)

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 27 May, 2022 @ 07:15am

    You're on a site that talks about the Streisand effect at every opportunity. Attempts at censorship that fail are still attempts at censorship.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 27 May, 2022 @ 07:12am

    I know.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 27 May, 2022 @ 07:04am

    I'm concerned because a society that affirms lies as truth is a society that will jump off a cliff thinking that it can fly. I do not want woke gender ideology to be affirmed for the same reason I do not want ivermectin as a cure for COVID-19 to be affirmed. Because they are lies.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 27 May, 2022 @ 06:56am

    Until last year, if you owned a farm in California and tried that approach with union organizers who came onto your farm to speak with your workers, people with guns would come and take you away. The only rights to your property you have are those that the government allows you to have. They can take it away from you any time they want. You might be hosting a wetland. You might not have paid your taxes. You might be hosting an endangered species.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 27 May, 2022 @ 06:50am

    The property owners, that is, the platforms, are the ones I would like to voluntarily stop viewpoint-based censorship. There is no conflict here, except in the minds of woke ideologues who desperately want such censorship to continue.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 07:24pm

    Not luxury exactly, but pretty good comfort. Woke ideologues not only want to censor speech that opposes them, they want to be lauded as being in favor of free speech. Since woke ideology regularly ignores reality, that's not surprising.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 07:19pm

    Woke gender ideologues are trying to force women to allow men into women's single-sex spaces. They are trying to have schools hide children's gender delusions from their parents. Where they can force overt affirmation of their ideology, they do so. Where they can't, they try to do the same stealthily, such as asking for "sex assigned at birth", which, no matter how it is answered, makes the responder falsely affirm that sex is assigned. The 2nd Amendment provides a personal right to bear arms. The 2nd Amendment should be repealed. If woke ideologues don't like the Great Replacement myth, they should stop crowing that "demographic change" will eventually give them what they want.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 02:53pm

    You are using the flagging system to do whatever you can to disrupt speech with which you disagree. Fortunately, that isn't very much, but you don't get credit for being a nuisance rather than a full-on censor when it's the site that restricts you to being only a nuisance.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 02:48pm

    Here is fine. I don't like you, but that's no reason for me to leave. Censorship remains censorship even if the speaker can go somewhere else to speak. And of course, woke ideologues pursue those speakers who go elsewhere and try to silence them there too. For example, the Parler app is still not permitted on the Android Google app store. Every e-mail from Parler is flagged by GMail as spam, no matter how many times I mark such e-mail as not spam. When I create a rule to never mark Parler e-mail as spam, the e-mail goes into my normal inbox, but it is still marked as possible spam.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 02:21pm

    But your property isn't really yours. Rights are voluntary restrictions taken by rulers with force monopolies. Your right to private property exists because the people with guns who could come and take it away from you have chosen not to. Those same people could say, if they wanted to, that you must allow people to come onto your property and speak. That was actually the case until a year ago, for example, in California. California law required that farm owners must allow union organizers on their property to speak to the farm workers. That was overturned by Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, but there are probably similar laws still in existence. https://capitalresearch.org/article/supreme-court-limits-governments-power-to-aid-unions/

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 02:13pm

    Of course I'm not suggesting any such thing. I'm suggesting that the large speech platforms should voluntarily not engage in viewpoint-based censorship in order to increase their users' ability to speak freely. Woke ideologues keep insisting this is about forcing platforms to do that, so that they can hide behind the 1st Amendment and say that platforms cannot be forced to do that.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 12:04pm

    So nothing. I'm just telling you woke ideologues that you're trying your best to silence and censor opposition. I'm not saying that you can't do that. I'm not saying you don't have the right to do that. I'm just saying that doing that abrogates the freedom of speech of the people you're trying to silence, and you shouldn't do that. As usual, you are hiding behind the permission given to you to censor, claiming that it's not censorship because you have permission. No, it's still censorship.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 11:59am

    Rights are arbitrary creations, not laws of physics. Rights can contradict each other.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 11:53am

    Rights are voluntary restrictions that rulers with a force monopoly impose upon themselves because they believe such restrictions result in a better society. As such, they may be partial, arbitrary, inconsistent, and contradictory. So we have both a right to free speech and a right to control our private property, and these rights can be in conflict. The fact that our society is constituted such that your right to private property overrides the freedom of someone to speak on your property does not mean that the silenced speaker has not had their right abrogated.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 10:53am

    You're still trying to silence opposition to the maximum extent that this site will allow. That it doesn't let you do anything more than flag and hide is a credit to Techdirt, but none at all to you.

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 10:51am

    Why not both?

  • On the post: Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 May, 2022 @ 10:49am

    It happened on the same night as "wokerati". I save up these bon mots for the right occasion. Or maybe it's just a word: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commentariat

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