I’m not arguing that this is solely responsible obviously, but I’d argue it contributes to it however slighly
And even then, my argument isn’t that it would be bad for the world, but that it would be bad for the site and the community.
Being a breeding ground for hateful ideology hurts the community itself 1st of all.
Calling it a “breeding ground” is a giant overreaction. People don’t come here from nowhere, they are already fan, already have fan places to talk the show and whatnot, this is not a meeting website.
It could be applied to a lot of content, and if it turned out that we had a big problem with real life rape in the brony community, I could see similar arguments for more responsibly platforming that kind of content.
We had. There was quite a few people in the past who got accused of Sexual harassment, like one of the main staffer at bronycon. There has been at least 2 cases of people claiming there was a child predator at a con, though one was always hotly debated as fake for drama(reported on tumblr 4 days after the con ended and whatnot.)
The fact that you are saying this show that you yourself are being selective. You don’t want to address a specific issue because it is not pertaining to you, or your knowledge of the fandom (or it is only serious IF it’s a problem in the fandom, and not worldwide.). Does this also means that if someone with a specific agenda was willing to dig up every single dirty stories about a specific issue in the fandom you would be willing to censor the images about it?
Responsible platforming can be done by educating people, not censorship. It’s the difference between
Warner bros’ take and Disney (who tries to literally erase their past and pretend it never happened).
Right now we have a problem with hateful ideologies so I’m arguing for more responsible platforming of that kind of content
It’s equally silly to say “right now”. Most offensive pictures have been there for years, and there was some article made 6 years ago with something akin to this (but I saw like 2 from both side of the aisle back then) . There hasn’t been a “resurgence” of her art recently at all. The only reason this is talked again nowadays is because a certain SOMEONE went to the journalist to tell them about it.
as much as there isn’t anything you can show me to demonstrate that it is.
Literally three weeks ago the Admins were saying there wasn’t going to be any censorship, that this was just a temporary changedue to current events.
The timing of this makes it extremely hard to debate it’s not a slippery slope.