There was an issue on Reddit a while back where people would post some hateful stuff, and of course lots of people blocked them.
After a while, anti-trans, racist, and far-right-wing stuff were only seen by non-logged in users, other bigots, or new people, and they weren’t getting the downvotes they deserved.
Is this going to be a problem on Lemmy too? I’m worried that if we’re all blocking shitty users that we’re just hiding the problem from ourselves, not fixing it.
Why not though? If you put conditions on free speech then where does it stop?
It stops when we run out of Nazis and tankies.
Your freedom ends where that of others begins.
Free speech should not include hate speech. If you advocate for the death of others, that’s not free speech.