Moderation Questions
The last iteration of the moderation discussion thread was a complete disaster. Numerous attempts to keep it on topic fa
Lol at banning someone because they are anti-vax.
Are you guys 12? Is this still 2020 where you're afraid BJ's anti-vax rhetoric will kill your grandma?
Anti-vax kills a lot of grandmas. It kills a lot of adults, adolescents and children.
A debate on moderation and censorship is complicated, complex and multi-faceted, going into issues like free speech, free press, property rights, private space vs public space, etc. However, a debate on the effects of words and movements tend to be fairly simple. If you tell people to not do something that could save their life or their children's life, manage to convince them, and then they die or their children die - congratulations, your words mattered.
Yeah what's the world coming to? They'll be banning for calling grieving parents crisis actors next😮
Anti-vax kills a lot of grandmas. It kills a lot of adults, adolescents and children.A debate on moderation and censorship is complicated, complex and multi-faceted, going into issues like free speech, free press, property rights, private space vs public space, etc. However, a debate on the effects of words and movements tend to be fairly simple. If you tell people to not do so
People are free to make their own choices in life.
Its funny when not allowing harmful misinformation to be spewed relentlessly is viewed as the 12 year old stance
I dunno man, maybe you have a completely ass backwards view of how the world works
All you conspiracydonks sing from the same hymn sheet, down to the phraseology. Independent thinkers lol. And, without a trace of irony, call everyone else "sheople".
Meanwhile, measles outbreak in 2025 in the US was the highest it has ever been in the past 35 years... already two months into 2026, and we're almost at the halfway mark of total outbreaks in 2025. Just so happens to correlate with an administration that is against education.
All you conspiracydonks sing from the same hymn sheet, down to the phraseology. Independent thinkers lol. And, without a trace of irony, call everyone else "sheople".
Is it your argument that there is no such thing as an official narrative?
Have vaccines saved many more lives than they’ve taken?
No, it's my argument that anyone who dismisses something simply by virtue of the fact that is is an "official narrative" is not an "independent thinker" but a donkey with zero critical thinking ability.
Obviously vaccination is good for populations.
You are free to bristle at the edge where that intersects your personal liberty whatever that is but it is a weird hill to die on imo and one you would not choose were you not heavily propagandalized.
Obviously vaccination is good for populations.
You are free to bristle at the edge where that intersects your personal liberty whatever that is but it is a weird hill to die on imo and one you would not choose were you not heavily propagandalized.
I'll die on whatever hill I want, tyvm
I think the argument is that you sound like a clown, not sure what the confusion is.
How far do you take this sort of logic? For example, imagine that I developed a new sugar substitute and I paid people to promote the product as a healthy alternative to sugar when, in fact, I knew that the product had few health benefits and dramatically increased the incidence of various cancers. In your perfect world, is that the sort of behavior that we should make no attempt to reduce through regulation or imposition of legal liability?
I think the argument is that you sound like a clown, not sure what the confusion is.
Pretty much.
LOL. Is this another epistemological hedge or are you truly something like 75/25 or 80/20 on this question?
How far do you take this sort of logic? For example, imagine that I developed a new sugar substitute and I paid people to promote the product as a healthy alternative to sugar when, in fact, I knew that the product had few health benefits and dramatically increased the incidence of various cancers. In your perfect world, is that the sort of behavior that we should make no att
I'm totally fine with the existence of agencies like the USDA, FDA, etc, to the extent that they're actually trying to help people.
Has drinking water ever killed people?
Yes or no?
Your question isn't doing what you think it's doing.
LOL. Is this another epistemological hedge or are you truly something like 75/25 or 80/20 on this question?
I studied linguistics in school, not immunology. And I have no clue how many people diseases like polio killed. I assume that vaccines have saved more lives than they've taken but that's not really the point.
Yw. We are all heavily propagandalated btw I am not singling you out in this regard.
