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by hairofadog 1285 days ago
To be fair, while I wouldn’t generally be in favor of a comment like the one you're replying to, I did feel empathy for it in this case. It's not about avoiding a difficult topic; it's exhaustion with this extremely tiresome tendency to try to bring bad-faith arguments about social media moderation into literally every topic. It reminds me of the scene in The Big Lebowski:

https://youtu.be/pn-kxUEySy0

"Excuse me, sir. Please keep your voices down. This is a family restaurant."

"Oh please, dear. For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint!"

Is social media moderation worth discussing? Sure! Is, "Teens may or may not have been executed for distributing movies, but on the other hand they deleted my tweet" a conversation worth having? Debatable.