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> I don’t think we should organise a society around the sensibilities of the most easily upset people because then you have a very neurotic society.

Very well said. This is arguably what social media has done. From what people say and think, to the reaction to current events, everything suddenly is about the most sensitive, risk averse, neurotic interpretation. We need to be better at tuning this out.

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The better approach was actually hands off moderation. We are now in danger of governments enforcing ID for social media because some people misbehave.

That is of course counter productive to any civil liberties, so the censors don't even have a cause at all. But you cannot blame politics or individuals here, these are the rules of public relations.

The first error was to ban whole communities because of demands from others. This will now be repeated over and over.

I would extend this and say anti-vaxers and covid-deniers are also a symptom of this. The "freedom of speech" group are clearly just as easily upset, but about different things.

The fact that parts of some governments in some countries support and enable these views suggests we're already quite far down the path to a neurotic society.

They don't call for other to be deplatformed. The prominence is mainly due to their opposition ironically, so no, they are not the same. This isn't a competition about who is the better human in the first place.

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