Unpopular Opinion
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Vote the opposite of the norm.
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- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
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No, sorry. When you care about freedom of speech -- even when you take into account that hate speech is not freedom of speech and block truly bad, hateful stuff -- you have the responsibility to include everything that is truly free speech. This whole "butbut the law!" crap is cowardice and fishing for excuses. Someone running lemmy.world has a personal reason for blocking piracy and/or is a massive coward afraid to accept the responsibility of a free speech website, and either way, should step down and allow someone with the confidence and integrity to run a site that allows the free exchange of ideas (to the point of not allowing hate).
Host your own instance. When companies sue you, no one is coming to save you
Please do me a favor. Host an instance that has 50,000 users. Allow everything that people want to post…porn, drugs, guns and piracy. Tell me you are 100% willing to go to jail or mortgage your house to pay your legal bills if it comes to it. Tell me you sleep just fine at night and never worry, or you do worry but you’re just so so so brave you do it anyway. Tell me anyone who wouldn’t do that is a pussy. I don’t believe you would do all of this and I don’t think it’s fair to expect anyone else to if you wouldn’t.
Just FYI, I upvoted your comment because I appreciate you expressing yourself but no one said Lemmy is a platform devoted to free speech and I disagree with everything you said.
Im really hoping you are a kid still. Absolutist positions on speech are really ill founded.
The fact is you are asking someone to get sued so that you can have what you want
This is how I know you're still young. Age will kill your idealism and you will begin to see life as it really is.
No one is getting sued because THIS INSTANCE IS NOT HOSTING THE FUCKING THING IN THE FIRST PLACE. Get that through your thick goddamn skull.
0free speach is free speach except the kinds you don't personally approve of and now you are complaining that someone else doesn't have the same approvals as you.
Ok, Trump supporter. If you cannot handle free speech not including radical, hateful bullshit, get the fuck to some fascist country and live there instead.
Ah yes, I disagree with your pitiful thin skinned bullshit so I must be an American who supports someone you don't like.
I see no flaws in your big brained logic here.
I would advise you to touch grass, but that's probably hate speech to you, what with that involving movement and all.