• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    Always love it when this explanation gets downvotes but the downvoters don’t actually chime in and say that yeah, they’d be fine if Lemmy.world gets shut down as long as they get to say what they want, when they want, wherever they want. Maybe if you just admitted it instead of getting pissed off at someone pointing out that speech can have negative consequences

    Why, when you understand the meaning with a simple downvote?

    Don’t call a place .world and then host it somewhere with pathetic laws regarding the main topic of the website: speech. Well, unless you want everyone else to rightfully call out the stupidity and patheticness of such a move

    There’s your reply

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      2 hours ago

      Why, when you understand the meaning with a simple downvote?

      Because it’s cowardly.

      Don’t call a place .world and then host it somewhere with pathetic laws regarding the main topic of the website: speech.

      Feddit.co.uk is in the UK where they don’t have free speech laws. Should it be shut down too? Should all servers be in the U.S. where free speech has a constitutional guarantee? Oh wait, you have no guarantee there either because it’s not a government-run server.

      I would also point out that there are lots of other Lemmy servers you can go to. No one is forcing you to use this one. That’s the beauty of the federation system. I’m guessing you won’t like a lot of the others that automatically censor speech like lemmy.ml either.

      If you want a place where you can say whatever you want and no one will do anything about it, 4Chan and Gab are there for you.