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@bryansmart @simon @matt @cordova5029 What I'm saying is I don't think it's an either/or between allow or enable bad behavior, or abuse children and then leave it to survival of the fittest. Sure, you can achieve results through abuse and get the social behaviors you want. But once those kids grow up, they'll either resent you for it, or worse, pass it on to the next generation of blind people they come into contact with

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@bryansmart @simon @matt @cordova5029 I'm not saying allow for excuses or anything like that. But there's a difference between firm which is necessary, or strict which is also sometimes necessary, and harsh. You can be effective without being harsh. NFB leadership, with all the shit they've been sweeping under the rug, is what happens when you take the last generation raised in that environment and put them in power.

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@rolle I am part of the generation that knew Jabber, that was happy to see Google embrace the Jabber/XMPP protocol: anyone with a gmail address had an XMPP instant messaging account interoperable with all other servers.

And one day gmail closed to other servers. Most users, already on Google, then asked others to create a gmail account to continue communicating.

I don’t want to go through that again. “Embrace, extend, and extinguish”, again.

—@lebout2canap