For me I would hold the social media companies more to account when it comes to hate speech and harassment online and force social media companies to do more to stop online harassment and hate speech.
Hate speech is an actual problem for online entities to deal with. "Cancel culture" is a slightly vague term that usually refers to applying social pressure to disassociate from someone. This can obviously be good or bad depending on what it's about, but the term is typically only used by right-wingers when said pressure is applied to them.
Not everything you disagree with is hate speech. I think eg Germany has pretty strict limitations on specifically hate speech, but there are still plenty of people voicing opposing views.
That only really works if the government is preventing you from saying it, and it’s not something like slander or causing panic. If your lemmy instance banned talking about Pickles, it’s not a free speech issue. It’s a private instance who can have their own rules.
You better be ready to own the consequences of that stance, which I assume you’ve been privileged not to need to. You can look up any number of mass shooters or terrorists who only got there due to online radicalization.
An opinion is one thing. Speech that has the intention of hurting others and/or inciting violence against others is another thing entirely.
You see on one extreme you have people stifling legitimate opinion, and then on the other you have people advocating lynchings. There isn't a simple answer, but the answer certainly isn't to smugly sit in the middle and pretend you have it all sussed just because you have no skin in the game. Ultimately all you are doing is advertising that you are ok with lynchings or whatever other forms of bigotted violence because it doesn't effect you.
"muh freeze peach" okay peckerwood, if that's how we're playing I pray you get replaced lmfao
What's my opinion on the way to stop online hate speech? The west needs a cultural revolution, anything else is dancing around the issue.
Censor them and ban offending accounts. If the account uses their real name, the state should arrest them and forcibly reeducate them.
Anyone who believes IQ is actually a thing needs to be disfellowshipped and moved to the outer peripheries of one's acquaintanceships; that shit's WAY too close to eugenics and phrenology for me to trust ANYONE advocating for it
It's always the fuckin' IQ tests with our friends in the "more civilized" world.
Those of us who don't live in an "out of sight out of mind" fairytale and aren't ignorant of the world enough to not realize the Internet has become an essential utility now, know that this would harm many of the groups negatively affected by hate speech probably more than hate speech does; many oppressed minority groups do not have access to quality education. Some of us are from countries or of ethnicities that have history with minimum IQ requirements for, say, voting. To say nothing of how IQ tests contain Western cultural biases and might not even actually be good at measuring intelligence.
