Freedom of speech is not freedom of abuse !

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2 years ago

Most of us think that freedom of speech is very important, but does it mean the freedom of abuse as well ? I don't think so !

Of course having a platform where the freedom of speech is protected is good. And we see that by no having the ability to delete accounts or content. It could be always found on the blockchain. So, technically we have full freedom of speech here and our content will always be found. Even if an application decide to remove it, we can find it on the explorer anyway. And that's awesome.

But what if someone will use the ability to freely write what ever he/she wants for abusing others. We all know how many trolls are there on the web. There are even those who can affect so badly content creators, especially those new content creators who just started to improve and grow their audience a bit. Creating content on the web for more than 6 years, I would say that I have some experience to deal with those trolls. But what about those who just started their journey in creating content. We usually invite our friends here, and maybe even relative, we wouldn't like to see them abused. Of course, we would defend such people and prefer to not see them abused.

Some people may think, that if we are supporting freedom of speech, that means we have to allow the abuse to happen. But that's not correct in my opinion. Should we allow plagiarism to happen ? Should we allow spam to happen ? Should we allow bullies to happen ? About plagiarism, I would say that's not fair to see someone stealing content earning, while the original content creator may struggle to get somewhere. About spam, I would say that we all hate it, instead of having a well organized platform of valuable content, we may see a platform with some comments, or full of links that may lead to fishing or any other type of scumming websites. And the last and not the lease is of course bullies. Maybe allowing them if also a kind of freedom of speech, but it doesn't mean that such people have the right to do what ever they want with others. Just like they may have the right to write what they want about others, we may have the right to treat them with the same way.

How many times we heard about people committing suicide because they get bullied. How many times we've seen people attacking someone because she or he does what's not accepted by others. I'm not talking about big crimes, or very bad behavior, but just something little, like not wearing the clothes their audience didn't like, or going to the place his/her audience don't like. I mean when the content creator is attacked psychologically for something really not that important. Or something without any real evidences, but just a fake about him/her. We should think about how such content creator felt at that time. Especially if the claim against him/her is not proven.

I'm not proposing to censor at all those who like to make fun of others, or to troll them. I just think that behavior shouldn't be appreciated by the community. We should do our best to create a friendly community. A community that welcome everyone building a brand and bring more value to all of us. I don't see any reason to appreciate the abuse. The more abuse we will allow on the platform, the more of it we will see.

I'm glad we have the mute button, and we can just ignore those who troll us.

Because it's better to spend time creating rather than wasting it on educating someone who are not looking to be educated, but just joined to waste the time of others.

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6 years is quite a long time. I haven't even completed a year yet, in this respect, I am at the very beginning of the road.

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2 years ago

Yeah, you are just starting this and that's cool. I'm sure you'll face a lot of things here. It's not that easy to always be active, but if you have a motivation to earn as much crypto as you can for your best future, you have to keep it on no matter what will happen. Even me, sometimes I lose the motivation, but I keep looking for things to motivate me to keep creating.

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2 years ago

The misconception between freedom of speech and abuse is something that needs some light cos people in the name of freedom infringe on other people's lives and they feel they have done nothing wrong...it's a pity really.

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2 years ago

Yeah, that could happen among people. Especially those who don't control their emotions. That's why we have to always control ourselves and to do our best to not abuse anyone.

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2 years ago

Who says the one who says what's on his mind says it to abuse others? Exception journalists and governments with their specialists. 💖🍀

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2 years ago

Yeah, I just found someone talking about the freedom of abuse and I didn't like that. He kind of said that we should allow freedom of abuse if we are supporting freedom of speech, but I don't agree with him.

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2 years ago

freedom of speech comes with a price. If a certain person abuses it, then he'll probably face the consequences of his actions. Talking ill on others and here in online platforms won't make you higher than others, rather its an insult to oneself.

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2 years ago

You're right. Talking ill on others isn't good at all. It shouldn't be accepted.

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2 years ago

I don't know if I misunderstood you, but read.cash material is not on any blockchain. It is a great advantage here that material and accounts can be deleted. Not only in a case of abuse, because you as an author retain your right and possibility to remove your material from the platform (and internet) at any time you see fit. This, in my opinion, is a great advantage, and a problem with publishing things on a blockchain.

Apart from that comment, you are absolutely right,freedom of speech may not become freedom of abuse.

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2 years ago

It's great that we agree about the main part. I do my best to not offend anyone. And if the abuse could be fought somehow, I support that.

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