Are our days of Free Speech on Social Media numbered?

vhisic · 2016-04-11T19:23:03+00:00

holy shit i didnt even notice AVFM was down. wtf facebook.

JohnKimble111 · 2016-04-11T21:19:35+00:00

It's not just even social media. One of the biggest content filters has blocked the majority of men's human rights sites for years.

Of course these filters started out as an optional extra, yet now they're something put in place by default by some ISPs and you have to opt-out of them instead of opting in.

The filters are also used by free wi-fi services, libraries, schools etc which will eventually make it incredibly hard to access men's humans rights content.

FromTheFarSouth · 2016-04-12T04:18:51+00:00

I'm from Chile. In February, three important Spanish-speaking anti-feminist Facebook pages were also victim of feminist censorship: El Demoledor- Antifeminismo, Contrafeminismo Warrior and Mundo enfermo y triste III. I've been blocked countless times in several feminist pages –both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking Facebook pages– just for expressing my opinion in a respectful way. There's something wrong in the feminist ideology that makes feminists from different cultures and countries share the same rejection towards freedom of speech.

2016-04-12T00:19:32+00:00

The era of free speech on the Internet might be coming to an end (short of a successful violent rebellion).

Look at voat, which started purely in response to reddit censorship. Now voat censors.

Part of me considers building something like voat but totally uncensored. But I'm sure I'd be dox'd over it and then lose my job after my employer would be harassed by the femnazis and Mao lovers who can't allow any dissent.

Leinadro · 2016-04-11T19:46:41+00:00

Honestly I think the mrm needs to not depend on social media.

Ive noticed a few times here where several "posts" here are just links to youtube videos. Well if youtube evet goes full anti mra that's a problem.

I think in terms of getting the word out the mrm needs to regress a little in terms of getting the message out there. Sure use large social media sites but dont depend on them at the risk of this happening.

TBFProgrammer · 2016-04-11T21:31:31+00:00

At once it is both yes and no. On any given site where there is not initially censorship, should it attain sufficient pull within society, censors will eventually find a way to force their way in. The thing is, once censoring is seen as a way to handle things, the site will start to censor more and more, eventually driving away the majority of internet users.

However, the internet at its core is designed to route around anything that damages the lines of communication. This function works equally well against censorship as it does against other methods. For so long as society as a whole is unwilling to outright suppress a given view, that view will maintain a presence on the sites people migrate too, in spite of all attempts to push censorship.

Facebook is already in the beginning stages of falling into obscurity. Expect the process to accelerate.

2016-04-12T03:30:53+00:00

No. If it continues to get worse, this will be further proof and fuel for the movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

rg57 · 2016-04-12T07:20:08+00:00

Of course not. Rather, the days of the current social media are numbered.

People are already creating alternative platforms, where content simply cannot be taken down, if even one person in the world wants it to stay up.

Two I'm aware of are

Decentralized Library of Alexandria
Zeronet

Whether anything like this stands the test of time depends on whether people use it, and whether the developers actually know how to build a quality product.

The_Fat_Lannister · 2016-04-12T12:04:30+00:00

One thing you'll learn quickly, if you detach yourself from the corporatized media is that truth and independent thought always finds away. In our digital age, it's made pretty easy by the internet, but in the collapsing Soviet Union, free-thinkers and 'radicals' kept an information network via a series of slaved fax machines.

coppercock · 2016-04-12T19:55:28+00:00

Build social capital for men's rights/men's issues/men's groups
Create alternate popular institutions not controlled by feminists

Title	Are our days of Free Speech on Social Media numbered?
Author	Wanderer15
Upvotes	48
Comments	27
Date	April 11, 2016 6:57 PM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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