npub1mu…kqv3e on Nostr: Having been banned from many online platforms for various reasons... usually for ...
Having been banned from many online platforms for various reasons... usually for carefully pushing ideas that are hot-button topics for people until I am reported and banned... I learned a heck of a lot about the importance of free speech. On a very large platform the effect I am about to describe is less pronounced. On a small one though... it is very prevalent.
If a platform will ban someone because of an unsavory idea then a specific event will happen across that platform over time! The only people who will remain are those who not only are against that idea but also those who support censorship of speech! You get a double-dose there! In very short order the platform is full of people who enjoy censorship of speech and the absolute blocking of unsavory ideas by erasing them completely from existence!
For the 0 people who read this today, contemplate this a bit over a long time period and think about the results on the 'population' that will remain on the platform over time. Even a very small and obvious set of banned information will leave a platform with an overabundance of censorship nazis as potential long term users flow in and out of the platform. A very interesting thing indeed. The censorship-lovers remain and love the platform because they are always right and the longer they are there the more right they are and the more often they are right as time goes on! Proof that they are so smart.
Censorship of speech is cultural poison.
If a platform will ban someone because of an unsavory idea then a specific event will happen across that platform over time! The only people who will remain are those who not only are against that idea but also those who support censorship of speech! You get a double-dose there! In very short order the platform is full of people who enjoy censorship of speech and the absolute blocking of unsavory ideas by erasing them completely from existence!
For the 0 people who read this today, contemplate this a bit over a long time period and think about the results on the 'population' that will remain on the platform over time. Even a very small and obvious set of banned information will leave a platform with an overabundance of censorship nazis as potential long term users flow in and out of the platform. A very interesting thing indeed. The censorship-lovers remain and love the platform because they are always right and the longer they are there the more right they are and the more often they are right as time goes on! Proof that they are so smart.
Censorship of speech is cultural poison.