Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts.
Edit: A lot of people are asking why Beehaw did this. I want to keep this post informational and not color it with my personal opinion. I am adding a link to the Beehaw announcement if you are interested in reading it, you can form your own views. https://beehaw.org/post/567170
So you admit that you think that literally every mod on every lemmy instance is by definition an authoritarian political entity? Cool. I mean, you’re wrong and it’s kinda weird to single out one instance for it, but you do you.
Everything in life is a matter of degrees my man. It’s odd you don’t see this, you seem smart enough.
That doesn’t fit here because your own initial argument isn’t really even an argument. It’s just the assertion that “Beehaw is authoritarian,” lacking any supporting argumentation or evidence. I can’t misrepresent your argument because you don’t even really have an argument. And you’re effectively admitting to being unable to answer the question: what makes Beehaw’s moderators authoritarian but lemmy.ca or another’s not? If you’re unable to answer that question, then maybe you just have a weird chip on your shoulder, or maybe you got banned for using a slur and are bitter about it? I don’t know what it is, but if you can’t defend your own position then you might wanna do the mature thing and admit it.
Sure it does, your inability, or unwillingness to understand isn’t really my problem. Beehaw is a politically authoritian echochamber. And I’m not talking about “slurs” as you ignorantly believe, you are not allowed to have politically contrary opinions, that’s how the friggen echochamber is maintained.
Anything else you’d like to say?
It’s not authoritarianism if your participation is voluntary, bud. Your opinion, as horrific as I can only imagine it is, might not be allowed on Beehaw, but Beehaw moderators can’t make you go there and post, either. If you invite someone over to your house and then they start telling you in the middle of dinner they think “[insert group here] deserves the gas chambers,” that might be “just an opinion” to them, but you’d be well within your rights to ask them to leave. You’re not an “authoritarian” for not tolerating their “difference of opinion,” because they have no real right to be there without your consent in the first place. Same deal with any lemmy instance. I’m sorry your feelings are hurt that other people aren’t obligated to listen to whatever odious beliefs you have, but I think this XKCD sums it up best.
I’m voluntarily having this conversation, but that doesn’t make you any less authoritarian.
Being well within your right to do something doesn’t make it not authoritatian.
If you invited me over for a party, and then kicked me out for a political opinion, yes that’s authoritianism.
Okay, so, first of all, thank you. I’m really glad you made this comment because it basically just proves by pure example that you literally just don’t know what the definition of the word “authoritarian” is.
It’s ironic, really, because your own definition of authoritarianism (which is pretty much just people creating and enforcing rules for how you interact with them) implies that what you really don’t like is the fact that you lack the ability to force your own will on others. Beehaw’s administrators and moderators don’t want you there because you insist on being able to voice beliefs that they find offensive or dangerous, but the implication of your criticism of them as “authoritarian” is that you think they shouldn’t have the power to keep you out, and that you should have the power to come and go as you please and to say whatever you want without consequence or censure. In other words, you want the authority to force others to cater to your desires and to run the website in a way that benefits you, at the cost of what others may want. If others don’t want to be around you or interact with you because they find the way you act to be harmful or offensive, but you think they should be forced to tolerate your presence and be forced to interact with you regardless, then you’re saying you think you should be able to impose your own will over theirs.
Does this…remind you of anything?
Dude you project a LOT of convulted shit.
I’m a fucking anarchist 😂 Please quote me exactly where I said I want authority to force others to cater to my desires. The exact sentence.
Also just a heads up, when you start spewing a bunch of bullshit like “it’s not authoritianism because you have no valid claim to rights.” I don’t see the point in arguing. If fudging details makes you feel happy, that’s your choice.
And your xkcd comic was shit. I’ve seen it, and it makes me fucking sad Randall Munroe could produce such ignorant drivel. Freedom of speech exists beyond it’s legal representations. Like holy fuck, that is a BAD argument.
For fun, want to go into some of the implications of what you’re saying? For example, in a hypothetical would you be okay with beehaw refusing to serve gay members? You’d be okay with that?
And McDonald’s could do the same eh? Or XYX cake company. Or a fucking private hospital. Where’s your line? Do you have one?
Being an ancap doesn’t count. That’s not a real ideology.
There’s text and then there’s subtext. You want access to a private space that can serve as a platform for you to voice your opinions, even when the people already in that private space don’t want you there or to have to listen to you. Your desire for authority over that space is a foundational component of that.
It’s not bullshit, though, because that’s the underlying premise of an authoritarian regime, particularly in a governmental sense: you have an authority that ignores the collective will of the people of a nation state. Those people have a valid claim to rights by virtue of their relationship to that nation as its citizens. You claiming that it’s authoritarian to bar your entrance into a private online community is like saying it’s authoritarian for someone to lock their doors to keep you out of their house. You don’t have some inalienable right to access EVERY single space that exists in the physical or virtual world.
Except, it really doesn’t. Private individuals don’t owe you a platform. And that’s what you’re demanding. You seem to be conflating those two things: freedom of speech and a platform. They’re different things. You can’t be compelled to express opinions that you don’t hold by the threat of state violence. That’s freedom of speech. But you’re also not owed a mechanism by which to broadcast those things. In America, for example, you can put a sign in your yard calling for virtually any kind of political policy change, ideological position, or political candidate that you want. But you don’t have the inalienable right to stick the same sign in your neighbor’s yard. Your argument is, basically, that, yes, you actually do, and no one should be able to stop you.
Also, it’s “its legal representation” not “it’s legal representation.” “Its” indicates possession. “It’s” is a contraction of “it” and “is.” Just a heads up, since you don’t seem to know the difference.
I’m sure you think this is some big “gotcha,” but it isn’t. If you recall, I said, “Beehaw’s administrators and moderators don’t want you there because you insist on being able to voice beliefs that they find offensive or dangerous.” The implication is that they aren’t responding to your identity (such as being LGBT), they’re responding to behavior (what you say and do). These are different things, and your hypothetical actively and transparently misrepresents Beehaw’s moderators in that regard. That said, there are plenty of privately hosted websites out there that are deeply reactionary. Stormfront is a famous one. Places like this are ran by people who hold beliefs that I find absolutely despicable, and I’m sure they would actively ban anyone who was LGBT, leftist, anti-racist, etc., but I do believe they should have the freedom to host their own terrible little corner of the internet without a government shutting them down or compelling them to conform to some arbitrary standard of behavior. Suggesting otherwise would obviously open the door for a government to do the same to progressive spaces with impunity. Which, historically, most Western governments have already done…a lot. But it seems ill advised to try and make that any easier than it already is.
Your other examples are just terrible to the point of not even being worth individual acknowledgment. Businesses, hospitals, educational institutions, and other, similar organizations are typically subject to anti-discriminatory regulation on the basis of federal funding and some kind of critical material relationship with the populace as a whole. In other words, banning someone from a hospital or from employment on the basis of their identity is a material detriment to the collective public good. Banning someone from a private internet forum, however, is not, because labor, commerce, medical care, and internet forums are all different things that should probably be governed and regulated in different ways. This is, of course, how it is in the USA, but other places have similar statutes. Additionally, if you get money from the government, you automatically play by its rules. Places like Beehaw are private. Totally private. They receive no financial support from any government in any way. Whether you feel any of this is justifiable or not ultimately boils down to your perspective on the concept of freedom of association. You clearly don’t believe individuals should be allowed freedom of association, seemingly in any capacity, and I clearly do.