One person criticism is uncomfortable to another person, how do we seperate that. Most criticism and satire is uncomfortable.
I don't even think making people "uncomfortable" is the underlying issue. You can make someone uncomfortable by forcing them to rethink views they have. That's a very good thing. But the point should be to make people rethink things. It shouldn't be just to make people uncomfortable.
You asked about the difference between satire and trolling, I think? I guess DNC is considered satirical, in general. Does that mean the posts that led to the ban on Parler were satirical in nature? Perhaps. As I said, the one post that I saw did not strike me as satire, and if that was representative of the posts DNC was making on that site then the account getting suspended seems a fair result to me.
My point is that you wrote off DNC as trolling without really knowing what it is all about and that you can use satire to troll. it's just not that black and white.
Can confirm, Twitter is loaded with p*rn. With that said this reminds me that a lot of people use the whole 'Free Speech' argument as projection. I remember one time Richard Spencer said he actually didn't believe in Free Speech, he went full mask off and said that the only reason he argues for it is to seem reasonable but that in his ideal nation free speech wouldn't be a thing. That you'd have to control speech completely to keep power over the citizens. So I'm not surprised that what looks to be right-wing twitter is going to be more restrictive than actual twitter.
OK. I'm no longer specifically talking about DNC -- since I'm not familiar enough with posts from that account -- just making a general point. I just think trolling is generally a very bad thing, and it is actually opposed to free speech because the goal of a troll is very often to disrupt or shut down conversation. Being in favor of "free speech" does not automatically mean you should tolerate internet trolls.
i think that’s true. When has the Democratic National Committee made anyone rethink anything? now, the Lincoln Project... that’s another story.
