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Why do so many folks seem to not be able to understand the difference between anti-vaccine and anti-mandate? I honest to god have no opinion but they seem like very different positions to me. Anti-vaccine all together almost seems anti-science to me, but anti-mandate? That's all about how much power we give the government over our bodies, and while I'm vaxxed and double boosted so I'm CLEARLY not anti-vax, I really have no opinion on vaccine mandates because the science on that front isn't super clear.

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Mozilla are going out of their way to help surveillance advertisers. Why? Because "ads fund the web". Mozilla says they want "privacy preserving ads".

This is horseshit.

Privacy preserving ads exist and always have. Just don't track us. Don't personalise ads.

I didn't mind the original Google ads.Show me an ad for a keyword I'm actively searching for, by all means. Isn't creepy, doesn't harm privacy, and is sometimes useful.

That was what made Google its first billion. So what's the problem?

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@xianc78 I remember a theory post that is kind of in line to that. What might happen in the extreme case. Heck, I believe it could happen seeing how volatile things are over even smaller issues. :bep_what:
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I'm just gonna go out and say it. Pronouns in E-mail closures are for douchebags.

I wonder if anti-natalists and overpopulation alarmists will get to the point where they start punching pregnant women in the womb every time they see one.

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While the truckers are protesting, they are also experiencing record snowfall. Maybe they should continue protesting to demand Trudeau to admit that climate change is a hoax.

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Neo-Satanism is fucking cringe. All it is is just a bunch of atheist+ fags thinking they can offend Christians with shit like "Satan loves LGBT". Like you really want Christians to hate the LGBT community even more.

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I just want to re-iterate our most recent rule change, which is that drive-by, unprovoked attacks targeted at people on other servers is no longer allowed. This is a rule that keeps us federated with multiple servers.

You can still have cross-server conversations and express opinions about just about anything you want, but what I am trying to prevent is antisocial behavior like jumping into random threads to tell people they're a f*ggot, or not a woman, etc. It's not about those specific examples being banned, it the general idea of not being intentionally hurtful to people that didn't ask for that interaction, and not sowing inter-server discord that causes me problems.

Again, to use the transgender issue as an example: you can have any opinion you want, you can talk about it, you can't jump into a thread to call someone slurs. If a server defederates with us because we have "transphobic" users nobody here has to change behavior. It is about not being a source of attacks at other servers.

I have been guilty of this in the past more than once. I am holding myself accountable to this standard, not just my users.

I don't like adding rules but I felt this one was needed. I'm not bringing it up to rake the few users who used to do this over the coals--everyone whom I asked to stop willingly complied. I'm just giving a reminder to everyone for the future.
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