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1. Samuel Bepis (samuelbepis@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 02:00:56 JST Samuel Bepis

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   • ???? Dr. Freemo :jpf: ????????
   • Darkayne

   @freemo @Darkayne Where? What I see on the Qoto About page is that y'all don't allow "hate speech" but also won't "censor unpopular ideas". In my experience (and the experience of a lot of marginalized people), places with policies like these tend to give a pass to people who want to "debate" things like race science as long as they don't say any slurs, while people who point out bigotry are often banned for being "uncivil".

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   • ???? Dr. Freemo :jpf: ???????? (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 02:00:57 JST ???? Dr. Freemo :jpf: ????????

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     • Darkayne

     @SamuelBepis

     All of those examples are explicitly against the rules and we explicitly state as such.

     @Darkayne

   • Samuel Bepis (samuelbepis@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 02:00:58 JST Samuel Bepis

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     • ???? Dr. Freemo :jpf: ????????
     • Darkayne

     @Darkayne @freemo My issue with #qoto is all the emphasis on not censoring "unpopular" ideas. Lots of ideas are unpopular because they're discredited, and many discredited ideas are also flypaper for bigots - Holocaust denial, race science, flat-earthism, etc. Debating these topics isn't going to bring forth any new insights, it just gives plausible deniability to bigots so they can spread their ideology in a way that appears civil if you don't know which dog whistles to listen for.

   • Darkayne (darkayne@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 02:01:05 JST Darkayne

     • ???? Dr. Freemo :jpf: ????????

     Seems like those that strongly oppose #UFoI are the most toxic, and appear to have not read the proposal in the first place.. simply following along with someone else’s opinion. Much of that toxicity & hate seems to be aimed at one person, and to that the whole of #qoto.

     Whether you like or dislike @freemo or #qoto because it has a Q in it—or whatever your flavor of opinion is—it’s completely irrelevant as an argument.