• No server operator needs to federate with you.
  • No server operator needs to tolerate things they don’t want on their instance.
  • No user of an instance needs to personally curate their own extensive never ending blocklist of users and channels they don’t want to see.

Quit your pseudo-intellectual whining and choose what instance(s) work for you. If you think regularly interacting with shit content somehow helps you stay out of an echo chamber then go ahead and make a second account on those garbage instances full of hateful people. Then you can read both the decent servers and the trash ones and be the fedora wearing ackshually right fair and balanced uber nerd you always wanted to be.

Edit: The huge number of upvotes on this post compared to the low numbers on the whiney imposers’ posts is proof of exactly where this community places its priorities.

  • God@sh.itjust.works
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    There is a common misunderstanding. First of all, this is a Canadian instance. There is no American constitution ruling over it. Second, free speech is not limited to the American constitution, or to governments. It is a concept that is related to people’s ability to express themselves, not necessarily in relation to a governmental power.

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          I was just making fun of people who bring it up when it’s totally irrelevant, on a Lemmy hosted in Canuckistan.

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            Still, free speech can be pursued despite the unavailability of a first amendment. I myself do not like being restricted in what I can say, so if I am limited, I will try to fight this limitation, whether I am sponsored by daddy Obama’s freedom drones or not. Now, if I went around waving a print of the first amendment that would indeed be ridiculous, especially being in Europe where it’s not a concern of governments or the people in general.

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              Sure, freedom of speech can be pursued anywhere, to varying degrees of risk.

              Canada or Norway? Sure, you’ll probably be fine!

              Russia or China? Depends on what you are expressing.

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                Lol you genuinely believe Canada has anything resembling free speech? Because I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you

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                  Canada scores higher than the US in most freedom of speech indexes/rankings.

                  I have a feeling you’ve bought bridges before, haven’t you.

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      Are you implying that because the concept freedom of speech exists everyone is inherently required to follow it? What point are you trying to make??

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        No. I’m saying that the presence or absence of the first amendment does not preclude the pursuit, or lack thereof, of free speech. I’m saying that free speech can be perfectly pursued or restricted in the absence of the american government, and that the first amendment is simply a statement for Americans, by Americans, on what free speech means in terms of government regulation.