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RE: I don't want a bunch of Racists and White Supremecists to come here.
I hear what you're saying, but I see Steem as a place for all of humanity in the long run. I think it would be best if we didn't get a huge migration all at once because as you alluded to, that would brand us as "The Oasis for societies terribles"
One of the ways I think Steem can change the world is by making free speech absolute. The vast majority of people are not white supremacists and the longer we exist, the more the population on Steem will reflect the population of the world.
I think the good ideas will overpower the shitty ones, but everyone should have their freedom to say what they want and it should be absolute. That's just my opinion.
The biggest issue is our population size. They would overwhelm us if there was actually a major migration of a few creators and a hefty percentage of their audience. They could even buy in fairly easily if they wanted to, but I doubt most people would drop a few hundred dollars on a social media account.
Unless they were from the gaming community. Some of them will spend hundreds of dollars on a free-to-play game.
Most would just be minnows, and probably wouldn't buy in right away, so if they were problem users, it wouldn't be a big deal. If they make inappropriate comments, they will get flagged, and it might not be that bad. Though it perhaps could be emotionally distressing.
That's really what I'm worried about, not what some might view Steem as, though that's no good either. If we have a bunch of users flood in that are abusive and hateful, it could effect our current members. The guy that got in trouble, demonetized, is trying to hide behind free speech to protect multiple rants over years, making fun of someone for being a gay Mexican with a lisp. Verbal abuse has a real effect on people's psyche.
I would certainly consider flagging him if he were here, and that's kinda what demonetization is. It's the central platform deciding something isn't worthy of getting adverts, and therefore being paid. Being here we put the control in the hands of those that have bought in and earned Steem Power though, rather than faceless employees of a centralized corporation.
Society won't lose out if a few videos by someone making fun of someone else for their lisp are deleted. At least not much. But censorship has larger implications. And that idiot being abusive towards another person has historical significance. That is absolutely what happens all the time in schools all over. He just never grew out of being a bully, and is now defending it as comedy.
Our flagging system, while not perfect, can be used to discourage such behavior, if people are willing to spend their VP to flag, and invest in Steem to help maintain it. But, at the same time, they can buy in and use their own VP to abuse and discourage flags.
In 100 years, or even 50, videos like the ones that guy got demonetized for will be used for historical study into the conflicts and problems of the time, and we might lose out on that if YouTube demonetizes them all and the creators delete them...so...yeah...censorship is bad...but I think we need to be careful who we try to bring here until we grow a bit bigger, and fix our flagging system to be a bit better, as well as curation.
Freedom of speech is a very complicated issue, once you get into the cases where people really sort of cringe having to defend it.