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> What happened to thinking for yourself?

What do you think I'm doing, right now?

Someone is invoking censorship as a reason not to adopt a new platform. No specifics, just rabble rousing. That's manipulation. Pushing back is thinking for yourself.

Or, they are being imprecise and undermining their position, in which case what I said works as advice on further conversations. Either way is thinking.

>>hinkle+(OP)
Or they're assuming good faith in their opponents. To not know what has been censored on twitter, and that the recent interest in mastodon was a reaction to the lifting of some of that censorship, is either to be playing stupid or to actually not have the background to discuss the subject usefully.

>>pessim+8a
We weren't talking about twitter. We were talking about one Mastodon server defederating another for hate speech. That's not 'some topics'. That's hate speech.

If they're talking about some other kind of speech that I might actually care about, they should have mentioned it. Because the next bad one I can think of is even worse than hate speech.