To be clear, not talking about this community, obviously 😛.
What's the point of writing down rules, if mods just do what they want? But I suppose that's the risk you take when you call someone a liar in a small community; they might be a mod.
Edit: I'm not trying to say that mods suck, they perform a useful and often thankless job. Just that it can be difficult for small communities to get a healthy number of good mods, which can become a problem.
Free speech already isn't absolute. Free speech isn't about words, it's about expression of opinions. And it's illegal to express some opinions in some ways. For example you can't discriminate based on race when you hire employees.
We're already willing to draw a line, and the world hasn't gone to hell.
I actually live in Canada, where we have Hate Speech laws (like exist in many countries), where speech that is significantly harmful to marginalized communities is considered illegal. Despite what the Flu Trucks Clan ironically claim, they're not being censored.
The line isn't gonna slide one way out of control and nobody can stop it, the line is drawn where the people of the country largely think it should be. In some non-secular countries, the line is drawn very far and I think it's gross. In other countries like the USA I think the line hasn't been drawn far enough and people are put in needless harm.
Besides, were talking about Lemmy here, not laws for which you can be thrown in jail.
You're confusing words with other things that have nothing to do with words.
Words are words, violence is violence.
And I saw the videos that were taken from inside of the trucker's protest, they were completely peaceful. The truckers were protesting the dystopian surveillance that came along with those QR code apps. Did you know that those apps communicate your personal details wirelessly? Completely without your consent?
The sheer volume of databreaches that big-tech-owned services go through all the time and you feel comfortable letting those idiots handle all your identity information and to let them send it to anyone who's able to spoof the signal to download it?
You're probably thinking about the nazi flags that were seen at the trucker protests. And those people holding those flags were definitely NOT feds helping to peddle a narrative...right? It's not like the media would lie to get us to hate our neighbors without listening to what they have to say or anything.
Free speech is freedom of expression. Expression extends beyond words. If all you protect is words, then you're not protecting much. But if you allow any expression, then bad things happen.
Wow, you put a lot of words in my mouth, ostensibly to give yourself something to fight me about. It's too bad I never said any of that stuff, and super suspicious that you completely ignored what I did say about the flu trucks Clan. Almost like you're trying to peddle a narrative 🤔