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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I like this idea.

    Twitter was supposed to be the “online town hall”. And online public spaces are not publicly owned, they’re run by private companies that can ban you at their own whims.

    With each country having their own federated platforms, they can truly act as online public spaces where the usual laws apply as they would do offline.

    You’d need to employ thousands of moderators though if everyone was online but honestly I think it’s worth it.

    But don’t be handing out prison sentences for posting stupid shit. Online harassment and calls for violence can still be legally handled the same way they are offline, but jailing people for offensive jokes and stupid hot takes is just idiotic.

    Best way is temporary bans increasing exponentially in length, then small percentage of income fines again increasing exponentially.

    Also, and I’d argue we already need this, a court system for online crimes. This means the regular court system doesn’t get more workload added on to it and specialist judges and lawyers can be appointed.


  • Then unsubscribe and block this community. If you don’t like reading peoples commenting on a public freakout then… don’t read them?

    Or is there something specific about this instance that’s triggering for you? Perhaps it’s just yet another comment you’re being instructed to leave by your boss or server.

    Idk I’m just here for the freak-outs because people’s behaviour when irrational and angry is interesting to me.

    Edit: also it’s not an explanation of the situation it’s your hypothesis you’re choosing to project onto this situation. Again who knows why you’re choosing to do that, only you I guess.