cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/24486673
I think that you are not allowed to speak freely on most platforms. And when i say speak freely i dont mean to have right to offend people, just to have right to normaly tell your opinion.
Freedom of speech is often confused with a right to say what you want on any platform, but it’s not the same. As long as you can host your own website, say whatever you want on it and have the website be accessible to other people, there is freedom of speech on the internet. That’s not the case in all countries, but in many it is. But getting banned on Twitter for writing “cisgender” or getting your post removed on Lemmy doesn’t really touch your free speech whatsoever.
Freedom of speech is not just the right to speak into a void; it includes the practical ability to reach people. Dominant communities are the modern public squares. If you’re banned from these, your ability to participate in discourse shrinks dramatically because that’s where the audience is.
When a handful of people enforce rules unevenly or with bias, they shape what ideas can spread.
Well imagine this. If you live in a city where you are not allowed to speak freely on city major centar and you are alloved to speak freely in your ovn home where there is non around. Is that realy a free speach city?
So im allowed to speak freely on myown website that noone knows even exist, but im not allowed to speak freely on twiter or so called x where eweryone are…
Free speach means that twiter shouldnt be allowed to delete any coment that isnt offending someone directly.
Or if they have a power to do so than we all shouldnt use twiter. We should use some more free platform like lemmy… Or some other, fell free to sujest.
People aren’t entitled to having their opinion heard by strangers
You dont have to hear me, you dont have to read my comments or posts. And that will not do all rhe people, just ones that find it interesting. So removing and deleting my post is harming those who would read it and learn something from it.
How long have you been using the internet?
Wery long, why do you ask?
There’s a conversation that could be had about how there are no truly public platforms on the web. Ultimately, everywhere you can speak is owned by someone, and any community you build exists at their mercy. This can exert a lot of pressure on a community’s standards and beliefs, and when I started using the internet, abusing this was a major faux pas.
However, that conversation requires a lot of nuance and patience. You are kind of transparently posting this in response to a moderator in another community removing your posts. If you’d like to complain about that, there’s actually a community specifically for that.
By the by, free speech complaints have become strongly associated with certain political movements as dog whistles. You might want to look into that and make sure you want to present that image.
Yea you are right about me posting this because another post got removed in another comynity. But not all places on the internet are ovned by someone. For example we here on lemmy are free to make ourovn servers for our comynities so noone ovn us. Thats why i like lemmy. Thats the point of fediverse right? Also lbry is place where you have freedom and you are not ovned by anyone. Its 100 times better than youtube. Thats why i like lbry and think more people should here for it. Because i didnt use it just because i didnt know it exists. And that one day i find out about it, and realise its been there for years. So i think more people would like it if people nkew about it, and second, people that know for lbry often dont understand how lbry works and thats why they dont see its value.
Anything that doesn’t go against international laws should be allowed
How do you mean internacional laws? Isnt the point of having ourown country to have aurown laws?
Countries law should respect international law. Like a private company also can’t impose a rule that go against law against discriminatio for example or any fundamental right
So what if one country doesnt agree with one specific internacional law, and doesnt want to respect it?
I don’t think it is right but nothing can really stop them.
Thats good, because if i didnt agree to laws than they shouldnt be pushed onto me. Laws are something that we should chose, if we dont chose them than who will? Back in the days there were laws that sad black man are for sale so why should i have respact for laws in general? If i personaly didnt approve them…
The universe and planet itself has it’s own rules that we can’t change even if we want to so the idea that everybody could choose their own rules no matter how extreme they could be make zero sense to me.
The idea that individuals could pick and choose their own laws regardless of if they make sense or can hurt other would only cause chaos and violence. Of course, not all legislation is good; history teaches us that some legislation, such as laws permitting slavery, was very immoral. That’s why societies need mechanisms to challenge and modify unfair legislation.
I think the best system is direct democracy
Well its obviosly imposible for every single person to chose their ovn lavs but thats why you should have diferent countries where you can move if you agree to their laws. Like there are diferent states with diferent laws. So if you dont like laws in your state and like laws in another you move there. So people with same ideas have their group and their space. That way we can compare states and see whic one have better laws objectivly. And can copy that in our state. Bushing same laws on everyone is bad idea…
Several times now I have had my comments deleted for “hate speech” for criticizing political actions or calling out hypocrisy or blatant lies or misinformation.
Then a comment in that same post will be cheering and applauding and laughing at the inhumane and ethnic cleansing taking place. They will proudly say “I voted for this and hope they all suffer” and it stays.
I don’t care at all about my comments, per se, but it is depressing thinking how much that probably happens all the time. How many legitimate comments get removed because of a mod’s bias, while actual hate speech and misinformation stays.
Yea exsactly, thats what im talking about. Thats why i think we should have platform that wont delete our comments. Thats why i support lbry desktop app because its 100 times better than youtube.
LMAO even our two comments discussing the very issue are being down voted. Good job proving our point guys…
Honestly idk who is doing that, some bots probably or something. I dont care, i know that any normal person who read this will understand and agree so i dont bother with bots and spyes of evel :D
