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by AnkleInsurance 3216 days ago
Are you implying certain viewpoints aren't worthy of their own space to be expressed?
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There's a valid concern that Medium would be sending money to those with "alt" viewpoints, or that Medium ends up having to censor those same "alt" viewpoints (de-platforming) to avoid that.
People with good content that you don't agree with don't deserve the same opportunity to be paid for their content? I've never used medium but it's starting to sound like I better not bother.
I'm not implying it, I'm saying it: some points of view don't belong on Medium (or anywhere else that I might see them).
So you want an institutionalized echo chamber rather than just an organic one? Are you really so afraid of these people that you believe they have to be silenced?

I can understand certain behaviors not being allowed but viewpoints?

>So you want an institutionalized echo chamber rather than just an organic one?

Yes.

I would love to support a site that puts its foot down and says extreme, offensive viewpoints are prohibited.

And yes, I am afraid of (some of) "these people." Have you not watched the news for like the last fifty years?

>And yes, I am afraid of (some of) "these people."

I am far, far more afraid of you and those who share your viewpoint.

Really, you are more afraid of someone who would rather not support nazis than actual nazis?
The number of actual nazis around is so incredibly small that it's not just statistically insignificant, but had that car related incident not happened recently it would go almost totally unmentioned.

The number of people such as yourself who want to censor speech and police thought, however, is frighteningly high. You are the same as those who advocated for book bannings and burnings at other points in history and it is depressing that your point of view has the strength it currently does once again.

You seem to be deliberately choosing the least charitable interpretation of your interlocutor's argument or statement.

That's neither becoming nor conducive to discourse.