We need a new framework for how to defend against “trolls”. The feeding metaphor ran its course many years ago. It is done and will not be coming back.
New online risks demand that we adapt and become proactive in protecting our spaces. We have to loudly and proudly set the terms of what is permissible. Those holding social or institutional power in communities should be willing to drop a few loud fuck offs to anyone trying to work their way in by weaponizing optics, concern trolling, or the well known “tolerance paradox”. Conceding through silence, or self-censorship, only emboldens those who benefit from attacking a community.
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Een volk dat voor tirannen zwicht, zal meer dan lijf en goed verliezen, dan dooft het licht.
Ooh, that’s even better than what people interpret Benjamin Franklin’s “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” to mean.
(It’s actually arguing against a rich family trying to bribe their way out of being taxed to pay for defense spending.)
Trololololo! Let’s go!
That Dutch quote is the ending of a poem by H.M. van Randwijk. Read it on:
https://www.gedichten.nl/nedermap/netgedichten/netgedicht/143672.html
Good Morning Thom.
Before we start: I do acknowledge, that this is your space and you can set what ever rules you want.
However, I offer participation since you opened the door, opinionated and inviting the discussion. I am aware that we are over cross at many things and don’t share the same views. I do enjoy this, I must say.
My point is: does this render me a “troll”? After all I show up here with my full credentials and at least try to challenge based on facts and experience.
So who decides who is troll and who not? Are we going again to accept only aligned opinions and warm tones? So what will the “new framework” do?
It’s pretty simple – if your opinion is one that dehumanises others, it is not to be tolerated
We should ban people for racism or sexism – even when they usually use nice-sounding language to do it
That could definitely be called “censorship”, but it is a form of censorship that makes an environment safer and more inclusive so it should be celebrated
> So what will the “new framework” do?
Censorship! That’s what.