A body needs an immune system and cell-walls.. a society needs borders, police, entry checkpoints and walls.
Absent any of these things, the entity is overrun with hostile foreign/external influence or infection, sickens, weakens, and dies. Millions of years of evolution didn't arrive at this arrangement just by accident, its because the weaker variants without these protections did not survive.
Take a single example where an infiltrator can post illegal content and then complain about said illegal content to authorities to get the site banned, blacklisted, deleted, deplatformed. Exactly in the same way how any civil and peaceful gathering can be attacked and ended by sending in violent undercover instigators.
Maybe in an ideal world this unceasing vigilance wouldn't be needed, but we do need it, and we need it now.
They were banned for calling out a specific moderator for not only making ridiculous rules about ones ability to post content, but broke their own rules multiple times to the point where they were being called out and quoted by multiple users.
The moderator in question stickies their own posts to the front page, while deleting content of others in similar format.
That is the definition of a gatekeeper. Keeping anyone from getting too close to specific topics by deleting and suppression, which is exactly why we are here instead of on reddit..
A body needs an immune system and cell-walls.. a society needs borders, police, entry checkpoints and walls.
Absent any of these things, the entity is overrun with hostile foreign/external influence or infection, sickens, weakens, and dies. Millions of years of evolution didn't arrive at this arrangement just by accident, its because the weaker variants without these protections did not survive.
Take a single example where an infiltrator can post illegal content and then complain about said illegal content to authorities to get the site banned, blacklisted, deleted, deplatformed. Exactly in the same way how any civil and peaceful gathering can be attacked and ended by sending in violent undercover instigators.
Maybe in an ideal world this unceasing vigilance wouldn't be needed, but we do need it, and we need it now.
They were banned for calling out a specific moderator for not only making ridiculous rules about ones ability to post content, but broke their own rules multiple times to the point where they were being called out and quoted by multiple users.
The moderator in question stickies their own posts to the front page, while deleting content of others in similar format.
That is the definition of a gatekeeper. Keeping anyone from getting too close to specific topics by deleting and suppression, which is exactly why we are here instead of on reddit..
any poster complaining about a mod can fuck off
ban deserved
that kind of shit is forum sliding and wasting everyone’s time
HAHAHAHA OKAY SHILL, THEN WHY ARE YOU HERE INSTEAD OF REDDIT???