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[Hide] (61.7KB, 880x660) A long time back the Mises website used to run their own forum. We had a troll on the site named "Socialist Gerry" (Socialist Gerry -> Socialist German -> Nazi). He was irritating, he messed up the board, but everyone replied to him all the same and he stayed around until eventually he got bored and left the site and was replaced by some other moron.
Now, even on libertarian forums, I've noticed trolls like this get banned. But should they?
Yes, under libertarian ethics it's allowed. Yeah, it's private property. Private property owners can do that. This is not an ethical argument I'm making, it's more of a cultural/moral one. Like I get you don't want someone running naked on the libertarian party stage, but there's a matter of degree here, and I'm not asking to let communists into your neighborhood, but I am asking that maybe there's a more general moral argument that should be shared so that libertarians and others alike can just...not all turn into HOA Karens.
More generally than just the libertarian sphere, I feel like all across the internet the amount of tolerance has slipped dramatically. I think that internet communities tend to be more and more ban happy and gatekeepy, and it's getting worse as time goes on. This doesn't appear to be a government issue; it appears to be a cultural issue.
Personally, I'm making this post because--and this might be because I've become a worse individual over the years--but I can't really find any other places to post anymore. I personally follow a rule that when a forum temporarily bans me or deletes my posts, I treat it like a permanent ban, leave, and go find someplace else. I do this because I don't want to be on boards or communities that are that exclusive. In the past, I used to be on boards for years or until they shut down. At the moment, I'm pretty much left to this place and two, maybe three other chans on the webring, that's it, and I'll probably have to move again in a year.
Tl;dr:
- How can the cultural decrease of tolerance of speech be reversed?
- How can I find more speech tolerant/less banhappy/gatekeepy places?