Zevran wrote:Magic can kill. Knives can kill. Even small children launched at great speeds can kill.
aviel wrote:Huh, I didn't actually read Notch's post as advocating censorship, though to be honest it was hard for me to tell what his point was exactly.
Matthew Notch wrote:SO WHY SAY ANYTHING MATT
Notch wrote:If it were up to me all those threads would just go away and we'd stop talking about it in the chat entirely. I don't give a damn about freedom of speech sometimes.
Marcuse wrote:I mean, what does this look like, if not censorship?
I feel there are reasonable limitations on the way we do so that we might suggest and impose because I don't personally think it's okay to have threads shitting on random teenagers who post something on a tumblr, because that feels like bullying.
But I do feel it's entirely legitimate to have threads discussing gender politics, social justice movements in society, and public figures who express radical ideologies in public.
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
It looks like people not caring to talk about it anymore.
Marcuse wrote:In that case, the post wasn't sufficiently clear on what it meant
It looks like person not caring to talk about it.
One person's opinion is valuable, but if we're going to take each member's opinion into account, I don't know if the majority will be on the side of banning or otherwise removing this stuff from the site.
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Avi wrote:It looks like person not caring to talk about it.
No, for those threads to disappear without censorship, nobody would be able to want to discuss them. I don't understand what you are saying here.
Marcuse wrote:Notch's post indicates that if it was up to him, as in, if he were to make a decision about whether or not we might choose to discuss or not discuss social justice, he would choose for nobody to be able to discuss this subject on the forum.
Your response that it could be read as though people wouldn't want to talk about it, is a strange statement to make because I already addressed it as the other potential possible method by which we might see these topics removed from the forum. I also dismissed the possibility of such engineering as infeasible, unless we're prepared to directly police the opinions and psychology of our users, which we cannot and should not.
Possibly misreading, I took your statement to mean that Notch's post is an indication that people do not wish to discuss this any more.
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Crimson847 wrote:Who decides which of the proposed solutions gets implemented?
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Zevran wrote:Magic can kill. Knives can kill. Even small children launched at great speeds can kill.
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