I literally just explained.

Underlining everything sorta kills the poetry.

I am describing a minimal-effort dystopian nightmare. You trick the serfs into oppressing themselves. Very cheap to implement.

I feel your pain, princess. Best add me to your block list.

Yeah but it’s an efficient, smooth-running dystopian nightmare

Ahh, so it’s ok to fuck with my conversation as long as you, smiletolerantly, think it’s legitimate. Whew. That’s a relief.

What would be better is a system where the sanctity of the conversation was respected. Where there was 100% assurance that everything you said got to me and everything I said got to you. No question at all. No man in the middle censoring and altering according to his whim.

It’s right there in the name. All seeing. Pan opticon

Yeah, but my point is most of the people here will actually argue in favor of it. Saying that it’s the best and only way etc. you got to wonder where that came from

It is 100% the conversational equivalent, surely

We are watched. We are dictated to.

Moderated social media. Lemmy etc

It’s a discussion of principle.

This is a foreign concept?

It’s a discussion of principle.

If you are saying nothing wrong then you have nothing to fear from moderation, right?

Google it. It’s a system where you’re watched all the time.

It’s weird. The simple fact of being watched and told what you can say. And the possibility that what you’re saying is being edited and what you’re hearing is edited too.

This strikes me as abhorrent. But most of the people here call it necessary, preferable and even desirable.

Imagine a form of downvoting that led to removal from the server.

Decree of the masses vs decree of authority . Still gets the job done.

This is a discussion of principle. Save the details till later.

That doesn’t make having a moderator any less bad

I don’t see the connection with my reply