Quote from: knobcore on November 07, 2018, 11:53:47 PM

1. We should require internet ID for all services. If you want free speech we should at least know who you are. Barring that, at least make the ID private. Civility happens because people don't wanna be shot or beat up. If half the shit said on the web was said IRL people wouldn't like it much. It's giving power to groups to play identity politics and accumulate followers. AI driven fake news is a problem. I don't think speech should be banned and we should only see PC crap, just we should be able to ridicule the hell out of someone and be held accountable. The white identity people, the flat Earth society, conspiracy types, etc is nonsense, and we need to be able to at least vote it down to irrelevance without some special interest group with a bunch of AI doing it for us.

2. Fred Trump was in the KKK.

3. I didn't say it had to be human. I believe humans are incapable of managing themselves. The cybernetics people mid 20th century make Marx and Hayek look like school children. We never fully went head first into a cybernetic led society. The first to ever try was Chile by the socialist government and it worked so well it was destroyed when they fell. It was using 60s archaic mainframes! Lol.

https://youtu.be/wx26zpPg884

Absolutely NOT. Anonymity and free speech goes hand in hand. The real benefit of free speech (and anonymity) is when criticizing the government and powerful institutions. Do you want a forum such as this to ban people and stop people from expressing themselves when they say hateful things?

That can be done. First clearly define what is hateful. Then will come all sorts of problems in distinguishing valid criticism from hate.

The easiest way for a forum such as this is to have posts flagged for being off topic, or hateful or, argumentative, or of low quality, etc...

Then moderators review these flags.

Then the post can be hidden from view UNLESS the user chooses to see posts moderated as hateful, etc...

Stack exchange does something similar.

We can make it so that anyone (say Junior Member) can flag.

Any Member + can moderate (say you need 5 votes to agree with the flag)

Then the post gets "hidden" from view for those who don't want to view such posts. (Similar to what Slashdot does)

You're concerned about accountability right? Well people will want to have their accounts get high status. OK then. The above will lead to that.