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Iām glad to hear that Antenna is blockingĀ¹ a Zionist troll, and Iām disappointed ā but not shocked ā that this person has attacked Antenna in response to this.
Communities always have the right to shun people; sometimes they have a responsibility to do so. There will always, eventually, come a point where you need to pick a side. For example, you canāt make a space where trans people feel safe and welcome and also let transphobic gender essentialists feel the same. Anybody whoās been in a community larger than a couple dozen people (online or off) has learned this lesson; Iād guess that most of the people on the small ānet have personally seen this play out many times. Iām happy to know that ew0k decided that genocide apologists arenāt welcome on the service that he runs.
When fascists complain about their āfree speechā rights, theyāre always complaining that some individuals or small organizations have told them to kick rocksĀ². The State certainly has no interest in censoring conservative viewpoints because nobody on āthe rightā is questioning its legitimacy. Meanwhile, even here where I enjoy a bit of anonymity, I need to be circumspect about some of my viewpoints (which wouldnāt imperil the lives of anyone, unlike those of the people calling for more children to be bombed in Gaza) lest the police put me on a list or some fascists doxx me to threaten my family.
Complaining about a double standard has never done anything to eliminate it. The only thing that works is taking one sideās power away until they canāt get away with it anymore. In the meantime, something that you can do for the health of any community in which youāre a part, and to help shift the balance of power a tiny bit, is to waste no time in telling assholes to go pound sand.
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Ā¹ Iām not interested in arguments about what is and isnāt ācensorshipā; anarchists who get drawn into such debates will find themselves arguing about what powers the state should and shouldnāt have ā an obnoxious distraction for anyone seeking to abolish the state.
Ā² Only in these instances do they seem to conveniently forget their absolute commitment to the right of property owners to control their own property.