Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@derickflorian @freemo @toxomat @ceoln @PaulaToThePeople @SecondJon @shelenn
"they are making the decision to not see on behalf of others"
I disagree with this characterization. Those folks chose to join those servers. Sure, most likely, when they joined, they were ignorant of the blocking policy. But they can always learn about it and move.
Some people may want to live in gardens with arbitrary walls defined by others. 🤷‍♂️ Who are we to stop them?

@jentaub How long do you think before Elon bans him for "hate speech"?

@freemo @derickflorian @toxomat @ceoln @PaulaToThePeople @SecondJon @shelenn To an extent, yes.

But I believe that (even in a more general sense), we ascribe too much blame to the liars and too little blame to those who uncritically believe lies. The latter create the demand that affords the former their living.

We, as a species, easily fall prey to confirmation bias. Those who refuse to fight it with critical thinking are absconding their duty to their community.

@derickflorian @freemo @toxomat @ceoln @PaulaToThePeople @SecondJon @shelenn Eh, I'm of the mind that there's no reason to get upset about it. QOTO doesn't block servers, so the servers decided to block themselves. It's self-selected curation. Anyone who wants their eyes shielded by another for arbitrary reasons is probably not the kind of curious, inquisitive person that I prefer interacting with on social media anyway.
All one can do is try to publicize the fiasco so that those who are curious can leave the draconian servers and come to the light of reason and open discussion.

@WorMP3 Maybe better to say "Freedom of speech *restricts* government only"....😬

@wiseguyeddie Really? I mean, I'm not a big fan of the name calling in the first place, but if you're going to do it, why would you use "KKKonye" when "Klanye" was *right there*?

I don't think I will ever, in my entire life, overestimate the amount of time it takes pasta to boil.

@clackable@mstdn.social @alexwinter Between seventeen feet of snow, rampant wildfires, electric grid failures, and your emergency services failing to communicate outside of Twitter, it sounds like California really is going to hell...

And I thought Florida was bad for going red.

Good luck, man. Sounds like you're due for a devastating earthquake soon. At least you'll be on Twitter to hear about it.

@clackable@mstdn.social @alexwinter I live in hurricane country, so yes, I know about disasters.

Yet, I still get my news about such things from the NWS website, or from my local county website. For both entities, Twitter posts are usually just a brief summary with a link to these websites for details. Plus, for severe alerts, the local government sends emergency broadcasts to my phone.

If your local elected officials are updating Twitter before their own websites or emergency alert infrastructure, you need to elect new officials.

@clackable@mstdn.social @alexwinter Wait, do you think those groups only communicate via Twitter?

I mean, I don't live in California, maybe it's more messed up than I realized, but I'd be willing to bet you could access news and info from all of those government organizations without using Twitter at all.