Giving in to outside pressure will only invigorate them. Yesterday it was downvoting pictures, today it was Aryanne, and tommorow it will be foalcon.
You may not like any of those, but that’s how things go. You give an inch, they take a mile.
They’ll see their previous victory as cause to keep pushing and ask for more.
Check the original BLM Twitter post. See those people going like “Ok, but what about X? When are you gonna ban X?”
They’ll never be satisfied.
Of course, this line of conversation is moot if the majority of staff who voted on this new rule change are all on board in the first place. To that, I say, you have a lot more to lose than ebil Nazis by censoring content you don’t like. People know what a slippery slope this all is, and previous comments of “Don’t worry, that’ll never happen” being tossed to the wayside show how right everyone was.
Just a few weeks ago, we were told, “Don’t like it? filter it”. That has always been a response to (you have to admit, really) the overwhelming majority of Aryanne pictures. I’d even go so far as to encourage people to downvote what they don’t like, but that is no replacement for filters.
That’s what it should be now. There’ll always be special cases that can be argued were in very poor taste though, like that one pic of Aryanne and Dylan Roof that was deleted.