Joseph CoxNew from 404 Media: Meta is laying the narrative groundwork for Trump's mass deportations. Meta now says users can call migrants pieces of trash, vomit, etc. Multiple experts drew parallels to when Facebook contributed to a genocide in Myanmar. Now U.S. https://www.404media.co/meta-is-laying-the-narrative-groundwork-for-trumps-mass-deportations-2/
Huh, would you look at that https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump.html
homestargardner@josephcox oh yes he will
Zip@josephcox oddly enough, the speech parameters here in the fediverse are the same.
I think it's important to engage with bad ideas directly, instead of muting them.
Kevin O'Gorman@zoozoo @josephcox First off, this is demonstrably not true (check out the server rules on your own instance: https://mastodon.social/about). Moderation etc is definitely a hodgepodge across the fediverse but it's largely better than FB.
Secondly, the point of allowing this stuff isn't to support debate (and you can't have a reasonable debate with someone over whether a whole group of people are trash, or whether they should even exist), it's to amplify unreasonable hate. We know where this leads.
1. The side by side comparison reveals how similar the content standards are. I'm not sure what point you're trying to illuminate here--would you refer to a specific difference?
2. Those hatreds *can* absolutely be denounced and should be. I don't think "debate" is an appropriate word for what should be done.
3. We do know where censorship leads but I take it you mean that we know where unchecked hate speech leads?