M0oP0o

“won’t someone think of the children” isn’t always wrong.

It is always wrong to frame an argument in this fashion, its a emotional ploy for a weak argument. Instead use a better line of reasoning.

What’s absolutely crazy to me is that you say “blocking won’t work because they can get a new account” and then in the very same breath suggest that reporting is a viable strategy. Either it is or it isn’t, which is it?

I never said that, likely you have me confused with someone else.

Public/private discourse is a false dichotomy. What are your thoughts on a community’s ability to ban someone? Should groups lose that ability, since apparently it’s both ineffective and toxic, apparently?

Mod log exists for this reason and communities are often defederated for abusing this power. And I have made no comment on the effectiveness or toxicity of mod powers. You sound like you want to be a mod but the worst kind of biased one.

Ok, lets walk though this. You have spoke with people from marginalized communities that get regularly harassed, correct?

Then please explain it to us the way it was explained to you. After all it convinced you about the value in speech control, a very high bar for most rational people to overcome.

But here is the thing, you have not. You have just stated over and over that this is a needed feature to "protect" marginalized groups. You have not even hinted at the group (hell it could be that its some hexbear talking point or that there is no group at all). And no, naming a marginalized group who sees regular harassment is not an issue, unless the group in question's very existence is offensive. Although there are a lot of nuances between what is and is not offensive, there are still some clear lines (think about say furries being ok vs the man boy love association being not ok).

Also criticism is not harassment, if you feel you are being harassed then use the report button. But don't get upset if not everyone else agrees with you.

Report is good, but why should I have to let other people read my content? Why is this a hill you want to die on?

Why should you have to let other people read what you post on a public site?! Is that really the hill you want to die on?

You want to at the click of a button stop everyone from reading something you don't want to see. If you dislike reading a persons comments, then you can block them and no longer see what they write. If you are being harassed you can report it, but what you want to do is police other users as a regular user.

You are also making the "won't someone think of the children" argument as your (so far) only point.

This is a place of public discourse, what you want can be achieved using a txt editor and a friend.

I used to agree with you until I actually spoke with people from communities that get regularly harassed.

Oh great, this again.

You might be better served using the "report" button if you are indeed dealing with harassment. That would be the appropriate tool for such things.

But I am going to go out on a limb and guess that you want to be able to just unilaterally punish anyone you don't like.

Oh but that is a feature!

Other minor inconveniences may include:

• AI spyware on systems (a very real issue with corporate and government machines)
• Legacy software not working in the new OS
• A drastic decrease in OS productivity
• Damage to hardware (potential as reported)

Ha! its almost as if we have hit a point where the new stuff is not as good as the old. DD4 is really good, but now we will be forced into DD5 and all the shit CPU and boards that come with it.

Oh agree. But still two years is a while when the facts where not hotly disputed.

It also feels like a life time ago she was arrested.

Well that took a while.

Why does this give me "gaycation" vibes?