People are meaner online because there is a degree of separation. Obviously, be careful irl, but having local people to support you is essential for long term mental health.
That was more of a juxtaposition of the example you gave of blocking = putting your head in the sand VS everyone's opinion should be heard. My main point being that there is a happy medium between the two.
I probably should have phrased that differently, sorry.
Eh, I would rather get blocked than have a troll that follows me everywhere.
I don't know for sure if this user is one, but everybody wants something different from their online experience and I don't think there is anything wrong with curating it.
IF they hate politics and don't want to see it anywhere on their feed, that is their choice. It may come back to bite them in the ass with IRL "leopards ate my face" style consequences when they realize that politics affects everyone, but it is still their choice.
The midset of "Everyone's opinion is valid and should be heard" is a neo-liberal perspective with their "centrist" (right leaning) approach. That is how we got to institutions platforming literal Nazis on debate channels.
I think there is a happy medium where it is alright to block users or hide posts if their messaging is just counterproductive or inflammatory.
Also it is better to block trolls than rag on them, their goal is typically to get any reaction.
I like to give them a chance to discuss and try to introduce them to a new perspective, but the second they throw a blatantly bad faith comment, I am going for the block button.
My friend, this post is about China getting cut off from the rest of the word, most likely due to government censorship.
The title of this community is Technology.
It is a PSA about the current steps the US is taking towards similar levels of censorship. This is pretty damn relevant to both the community and the post topic.
I know some people don't like it, but politics is part of tons of different communities. Even a crafting community would be affected by the current tariffs.
Their voter base is not the most educated, so they are VERY susceptible to misinformation. Also, they have raised their base to be extremely reactionary.
It is not really the politicians these would be aimed at, even though some have very fragile egos and may act solely because it hurts their feefees.
I think this is similar to the gerrymandering issue where, since only the Republicans have abused it for years, they have had 0 reason to vote for any legislation put up against it.
Now that the D's are doing it, they might consider the risk is higher than the reward with Gerrymandering and say nobody is allowed to do it.
Just gotta start pumpin out gen images of Rs for them to reconsider their stance.
To be clear, I am very against AI gen images. But, like you were saying, I don't see any reason for them to take any action against it until it affects them.
I think it was the policies that Zohran was running on and the face to face canvasing he did, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was a contributing factor.
People are meaner online because there is a degree of separation. Obviously, be careful irl, but having local people to support you is essential for long term mental health.