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Internet is full of MAGA garbage. Bittorrent DHT is full of MAGA garbage. What's your point? There are ways to filter out what you don't want to see.
If you can’t see the point, then I cannot help you.
The point of course is that if you don't want to see it, you refuse to use any platform that allows others to see it. Which must make it awfully hard to use the internet. Surprised you manage to even use Lemmy.
Free speech is protection from government oppression. Last I checked, I'm not the government, neither is Lemmy, neither is any other site on the internet that doesn't end in .gov (typically), and this isn't a free speech issue despite what MAGA idiots would have people think. If the platform wants that shit there, so be it, and I won't use it when it's painted on their front page. I use Lemmy because I was here (on another instance originally) before the MAGA weirdos decided to join to spread their bullshit, so I've had time to curate -- apparently I have to do it again, or simply leave this instance. I was also alive well before the MAGA weirdos decided to spread their fascist Nazi propaganda all over the place. There was once a world war about that -- and they lost. I guess they don't like being losers.
Just because I use the internet (which I have been doing since only a few years after the WWW was invented), doesn't mean I have to tolerate bullshit when I see it. Perhaps if everyone was like this, the internet wouldn't be the shithole it has become.
And I'm done responding now, because clearly you and many others in this thread will never understand, or even care to understand.
This appears to be an argument against a position I wasn't taking. You just appear to be upset that alternative video streaming sites don't ban people you disagree with. Good luck with that.
Hey, you may been around longer than I have. Only had the internet since the mid 90s. So it depends on how you define "a few". It was a very different beast back then, and I for one miss the relative lack of concentrated corporate control and mandatory advertiser-friendliness.
I chalk that up to said concentrated corporate control and mandatory advertiser-friendliness, but then I don't think it's become a shithole because people I disagree with also have a voice, but because of aggressive monetization and the enshittification that that inevitably entails.
No, you are well understood. You are opposed to alternative video platforms (and apparently some other unnamed Lemmy instance) because those things do not necessarily reinforce your echo chamber, and you consider that reinforcement a vital feature. I'm waaay over on the far end of the spectrum, and chose my instance specifically because they do not defederate, they keep everything available and leave it up to the user to decide what they do or do not wish to see (and I to date have nothing blocked - no users, no communities, no servers).
I can see it, I just want you to spell it out that you are a fascist douchebag (everyone who wants to censor other opinions is that).
So...being anti-MAGA makes me fascist. Got it. And I never once said I wanted to censor opinions. Stop making shit up, you sound like a MAGA moron.
Good lord, they're everywhere. Literal morons, everywhere.
Its worse than that, maga are literal terrorists at this point, and supporting a convicted criminal trying to elect him king so he can get away with all those crimes, makes them partially culpable for all his crimes
That's you.
Which other point can be made then?
If there's a system containing MAGA stuff, but you won't see it if you don't want to, it's as fine for any situation as a system without MAGA stuff for any goal which is not censorship of MAGA stuff.