Oliphantasy Star Online (@oliphant@oliphant.social) (Oliphant Social)
People like to reverse this, you know, like the admins who run these servers are the unreasonable ones. Those server admins, who send their free time--on their own dime--for *fun*--to administer a community of people they trust's access to the fedi. And you want to tell them what they *should* do? Fuck off, Gruber. You don't understand this place, starting with the fact it's not "one place" it's "many places" and no one owns the whole thing, not even you. And you should celebrate the right of any server to choose who they associate with. *taps the sign* "Freedom of association is the part of free speech that free speech warriors always ignore." From Elon to half the fucking journalists out there, to this Gruber dork, everyone gets it wrong. Because they see 'freedom of speech' as an entitlement to say whatever you want, and others are expected to just 'grow up' and take it 'real adults' or whatever other demeaning phrases you want to use for people who do the most adult, most empowering activity of all: Assertively saying "No." You don't have freedom of speech without a corresponding freedom of association. Without it, you end up with a shooting gallery for abuse.

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