"These guys only care about their assumed right to force people who aren't interested to listen. "Free speech" is when they can say awful stuff and you can't answer back. When Dorsey calls Twitter -- Twitter! -- "freedom technology," that's the freedom he means. They can't live without unwilling ears to bash."
So far it seems that free speech, just like many other things, is being substituted with maximalist subversions of it, and used, and weaponised more and more often with the very specific purpose of helping capitalists and the patriarchy to amass even more wealth and power, on top of their already obscene wealth and power.
These may not be the outcomes that some maximalists seek, but these are the actually-existing outcomes we get.
Your job is not to defeat the Nazi in the marketplace of ideas. We already did that. Your job is not to persuade them, or convert them, that comes later, and is on their heads. Your job is to make them afraid. Afraid to be a Nazi in public. To speak Nazi. To do Nazi things. —Make Nazis afraid again.
Just a note: if you're defending the abstract principle of free speech while using the repressed speech of Nazis as an example? You're defending Nazis.
If you want to defend the abstract principle of free speech, find a different group whose speech has been repressed to do it. I guarantee you there are many examples.
And now the #DrupalAssociation has issued their own Open Web Manifesto https://www.drupal.org/open-web-manifesto which specifically references inclusion and diversity as requirements while expressing no awareness or concern about how the "Open Web" is being used as a dog whistle for free speech absolutists that don't mind seeing many of us marginalized, attacked, and pushed out of the community.
I assume that the DA have good intentions about the potential of the Open Web to create a more open and free society. However to repeat this term without recognizing that it is already being used within our community to rationalize behavior that does the opposite of what they claim to be working for is either naive or disingenuous.
We can't make the world or our community better by ignoring the problems it has. A true commitment to diversity and inclusion means making an effort to change the systems that have made tech famously homogeneous and hostile to people who don't fit the mold. So I would like to know whether @dries sees Drupal's Open Web Manifesto as aligned with Pantheon's position https://pantheon.io/platform-content-position that protecting the "Open Web" means they must do nothing about actual hate speech and campaigns to deny human rights.
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