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Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last week’s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • David GerardMA
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    121 day ago

    The mask comes off at LWN, as two editors (jake and corbet) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple people pointing out she’s a Nazi who fills her projects with racist dogwhistles

    https://lwn.net/Articles/998196/

    • @selfA
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      1215 hours ago

      fuck me that is some awful fucking moderation. I can’t imagine being so fucking bad at this that I:

      • dole out a ban for being rude to a fascist
      • dole out a second ban because somebody in the community did some basic fucking due diligence and found out one of the accounts defending the above fascist has been just a gigantic racist piece of shit elsewhere, surprise
      • in the process of the above, I create a safe space for a fascist and her friends

      but for so many of these people, somehow that’s what moderation is? fucking wild, how the fuck did we get here

      • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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        See, you’re assuming the goal of moderation is to maintain a healthy social space online. By definition this excludes fascists. It’s that old story about how to make sure your punk bar doesn’t turn into a nazi punk bar. But what if instead my goal is to keep the peace in my nazi punk bar so that the normies and casuals keep filtering in and out and making me enough money that I can stay in business? Then this strategy makes more sense.

    • @Soyweiser
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      721 hours ago

      Post by Corbet the editor. “We get it: people wish that we had not highlighted work by this particular author. Had we known more about the person in question, we might have shied away from the topic. But the article is out now, it describes a bit of interesting technology, people have had their say, please let’s leave it at that.”

      So you updated the article to reflect this right? padme.jpg

      • @froztbyte
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        819 hours ago

        so is corbet the same kind of fucker that’ll complain “everything is so political nowadays”? it seems like they are

        • @froztbyte
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          515 hours ago

          fwiw this link didn’t jump me to a specific reply (if you meant to highlight a particular one)

          • @FRACTRANS
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            715 hours ago

            It didn’t scroll for me either but there’s a reply by this corbet person with a highlighted background which I assume is the one intended to be linked to