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Is Boards.ie a "safe space"?

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    #92
    Links234
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    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Also it amazes me how people don't understand that a private company doesn't owe anyone free speech.
    To be fair, reddit does sell itself on free speech, anyone can setup a subreddit for anything, and the admins won't interfere with it. So from that point of view, yes they do owe people free speech because that's pretty much exactly what they're selling. But that pretty much just goes to show just how far removed from a censorship/free speech issue this actually is.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Some of the ones on there are absolutely insane. I ventured into one or two of the deeper ones and walked out veeeerryy quickly.
    Oh yeah, it's incredible the **** you can find on there, downright totally and utterly bizarre subs sometimes.


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    #93
    [Deleted User]
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    Links234 wrote: »
    To be fair, reddit does sell itself on free speech, anyone can setup a subreddit for anything, and the admins won't interfere with it. So from that point of view, yes they do owe people free speech because that's pretty much exactly what they're selling. But that pretty much just goes to show just how far removed from a censorship/free speech issue this actually is.


    Oh yeah, it's incredible the **** you can find on there, downright totally and utterly bizarre subs sometimes.

    The ones involving cute dead people are absolutely disgustingly horrific.

    And, yup, that exists.


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    #94
    Links234
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    The ones involving cute dead people are absolutely disgustingly horrific.

    And, yup, that exists.

    Then there's some that just leave you scratching your head thinking "Why is this even a thing!?"

    I trust you've seen /r/popping right?


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    #95
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Links234 wrote: »
    To be fair, reddit does sell itself on free speech, anyone can setup a subreddit for anything, and the admins won't interfere with it.

    I didn't know that - don't go on reddit at all so I was projecting the 'free speech?' cries that you see on here.
    But that pretty much just goes to show just how far removed from a censorship/free speech issue this actually is.

    Well yeah, it's not free speech when you're targetting specific people with threats. But yet people will see maintain it is. I've seen people on here claim that you should be allowed say anything about anyone on the internet with no restrictions which is insane. I don't think these peope think through what they're saying sometimes.


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    #96
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Links234 wrote: »
    Then there's some that just leave you scratching your head thinking "Why is this even a thing!?"

    Today I learned the word "hematolagnia" :eek:


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    #97
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    catallus wrote: »
    Today I learned the word "hematolagnia" :eek:

    I looked it up. My eyebrows entered my hairline.

    Welp, guess I learned something new today too then :P


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    #98
    K4t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    It gets tiring - if you say one thing, you're sexist, another thing, you're racist, where people are purposefully going out of their way to be offended.

    Free speech doesn't exist anymore.
    That is true free speech though. Free speech is the right to label someone a sexist, a racist, a homophobe etc. And while I understand the irritation whereby the overuse and incorrect use of those terms can cause them to become redundant, the alternative whereby someone like Breda O'Brien for example can sue RTE for damages after being called a homophobe, is far worse. That is the true chilling effect, imposed by the state, not silly SJWs or reddits or boardsies and so on.


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    #99
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Samaris wrote: »
    I looked it up. My eyebrows entered my hairline.

    I dunno, I'm sure there's some sort of social theory out there that explains why people go in for that type of crap, probably something along the lines of some sort of impulse to be weirder or kinkier than other people.

    I mean, imagine having to clean up after that kind of carry on?!


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    #100
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    catallus wrote: »
    I dunno, I'm sure there's some sort of social theory out there that explains why people go in for that type of crap, probably something along the lines of some sort of impulse to be weirder or kinkier than other people.

    I dunno, I think it's probably more common than most people would admit to! I direct you to the works of Victoria Frances. Luis Royo isn't exactly agin the use of blood in a sexy image either (VF is generally -reasonably- SFW, but some are risque, Luis Royo's stuff, well, definitely not all of them, so hunter beware!). Mostly all the vampire soft porn in the last few years. I blame Buffy. Then Twilight.
    catallus wrote: »
    I mean, imagine having to clean up after that kind of carry on?!

    :D


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    #101
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Ironically enough, the net is also a safe place for the people that do the extreme trolling of target groups mentioned, because in real life, most of them wouldn't say boo to somebody, let alone bully them.


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    #102
    RDM_83 again
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    anncoates wrote: »
    Ironically enough, the net is also a safe place for the people that do the extreme trolling of target groups mentioned, because in real life, most of them wouldn't say boo to somebody, let alone bully them.



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    #103
    [Deleted User]
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    Links234 wrote: »
    Then there's some that just leave you scratching your head thinking "Why is this even a thing!?"

    I trust you've seen /r/popping right?

    I hadn't, but I have now and might hate you just a tiny bit at this moment :pac:


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    #104
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I hadn't, but I have now and might hate you just a tiny bit at this moment :pac:

    Haha! My work here is done! :D

    Oh wait, no it isn't! You have heard of (Warning, NSFW!) /r/Dragons****ingcars right? Because, can you guess what it's about?

    Edit: Censored word is f*ck, remove the *'s for actual subreddit.


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    #105
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I've seen people on here claim that you should be allowed say anything about anyone on the internet with no restrictions which is insane. I don't think these peope think through what they're saying sometimes.
    They only mean "free speech they agree with".


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    #106
    moc moc a moc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭moc moc a moc


    Stheno wrote: »
    No one deserves abuse

    Some people do though, in fairness


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    #107
    PM me nudes
    Registered Users Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭PM me nudes


    You have to question reddits approach here. They ban r/fatpeoplehate yet allow r/sexyabortions, r/cutefemalecorpses and r/watchpeopledie stay up.


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    #108
    Not a NSA agent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Not a NSA agent


    PM me nudes wrote: »
    You have to question reddits approach here. They ban r/fatpeoplehate yet allow r/sexyabortions, r/cutefemalecorpses and r/watchpeopledie stay up.

    Supposedly people on the banned reddits were harassing people, not just talking about fat people


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    #109
    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    jonnypacket wrote: »
    Over on Reddit, new "safe-space" rules went into effect a few hours ago. A number of popular subreddits have already been shutdown solely for the reason of protecting people's feelings. Some of the banned subreddits include
    /r/fatpeoplehate
    /r/HamPlanetHatred
    /r/transfags

    The internet highly values freedom of speech and the free market of ideas so naturally it is going crazy over these new censorship rules. The top three posts on /r/all currently are complaints over the censorship. A worrying trend has developed over the past few years where the internet is drifting towards the liberal-fascist end of the spectrum and echo chambers of over-sensitive, whiny feminists are calling the shots. Are fat people immune to criticism now?

    Is Boards a "safe space" where you are guaranteed to never encounter ideas contrary to your own or (heaven forbid) get offended?

    I don't use reddit but the sort of name you've posted are hate groups, not designed for educated critique of a topic.

    Boards only has one forum suited to people like that.


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