Re: [NetBehaviour] The untenable technophobia of the Left

2018-03-06 Thread Micheál O'Connell via NetBehaviour
I suppose that in the 'real world' the position of "no platform for fascists" which is not a liberal or libertarian one by any means, was commonly supported, adopted and applied if possible. But if that kind of preventing is done by the state, is a top down thing, or carried out by legal means, the

Re: [NetBehaviour] The untenable technophobia of the Left

2018-03-05 Thread Rob Myers
In addition to technophobia, with support for censorship on social media there's also a pattern of a misjudged paternalism (by people who will not be the daddy of this particular scenario) and failure to learn from history. Even the very recent history of how the imposition of "Real Names" policies