As a Canadian Lefitst, I just have to mention that I literally don’t hear a single person other than the LPC discuss banning/restricting guns

And what of people like OP in that calculation? He’s clearly behind Castro Jr’s anti gun agenda. Does he not count?

Lmao probably don’t talk about facts because they don’t support whatever crap you want

Lmao funny how you just jump to insults because your worthless position is indefensible.

Well considering that it just so happens to be the left that’s looking for gun control in this situation, and op is crying like a bitch that he saw a right wing ad, yes.

Lmao you’re really upset that you don’t just have an unbroken stream of the leftist slop you usually see?

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I mean it’s not really an effort to curate my feed. I made an account, followed a bunch of accounts from artists I already liked, and from there, all I’ve done is follow more accounts based on content I find. I haven’t had to do any “curation” to achieve my feed. It’s just… There. It shows content based on what people interact with. For me, that’s porn and memes. For some people, it’s every random bit of political ragebait.

I mean of all the social media, Twitter is one of the best at serving you content based on what you interact with. If all you see is shit you hate, it’s entirely user error. My entire feed is memes and porn, because that’s all I bother with

Lemmy works the exact same way pal

Why would I be happier if I stopped browsing content I enjoy? The math on that doesn’t really add up

So how blocking works on basically every other platform, including this one? It was only recently that it stopped working that way on reddit even.

I mean even a lot of pension funds are kept in investments rather than some scrooge mcduck money tower. Unless you’re just entirely opposed to managed investments as a whole, a 401k is no less risky than a pension in terms of potential for loss, but it does come with the added benefit of being able to personally direct how it’s invested rather than just sitting back and praying that someone else doesn’t mismanage it. Your 401k is yours, and yours alone.

Hate speech targetted at a group effectively makes them leave and/or stop speaking. As a result, the discourses that they were voicing get silenced with them, and the social acceptability to voice those discourses goes down. The environment in question becomes less free as a result.

This is where I don’t agree. Hate speech doesn’t make anyone leave. It has no power nor authority over people to make them do anything. No matter how much someone spams “kill all niggers”, it doesn’t actually do anything. If someone leaves, it’s entirely because they aren’t personally interested in being there. This is in contrast to censorship from the platform, where there is the ability to unilaterally force a user to not participate via bans or removals.

It’s the same idea as how free speech applies to the government not censoring the town square. Someone leaving because they don’t enjoy what people say is not an infringement on anyone’s speech, but the government arresting people based on what they say is.

Just not censoring people offers nearly all the benefits you claim your perspective offers.you don’t have to worry about misuse of censorship because it isn’t used at all, and it is entirely devoid of “feeling” and “intent”, and the other things like ability to an undesirable speech isn’t particularly relevant when discussing a free speech platform.

if you allow it, you’re lowering a lot the freedom of speech of those who’d be targeted by it. It’s a lot because they’ll disengage and leave

I disagree that this is lowering free speech. Those people who leave are still entirely within their ability to stay and continue speaking. Free speech isn’t lesser just because someone doesn’t feel like speaking

And let me guess. You also convieniently define like 99% of your opinions as “human rights” so you can dismiss anyone who doesn’t agree

Not like the left is any better

Federation being optional is the entire problem. It’s a pain in the ass to have to use multiple accounts because petty shitlord admins defederate everyone they don’t like.

And Canada fucking sucks.

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