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Thanks!

I had to make a tumblr just to ask this. I'm genuinely wondering how do you justify deleting comments and blocking people. This is not trying to be a pisstake, I'm legit interested in your opinion on this sort of moderation and censorship. When you delete a post or block someone, how do you explain it to yourself? Is it just that it's your personal website and some content are just not welcome or do you have a deeper explanation?

Look, the first amendment in America protects your right to criticize your government in a public forum without prosecution by said government. So commenting negative bullshit on someone’s private page is not protected. Someone refusing to offer your assholery free web hosting on a site they run is not censorship. Their website is not your forum for public expression. Blocking and deleting online is akin to asking someone you hate to leave your fucking party- or simply refusing to invite them in the first place. A webpage where someone posts their content for viewers to voluntarily read is not an invitation for hostility and negativity. If you dislike the content on a given page and the author of that page hasn’t explicitly said, “please let me know all the contradictory and unpleasant things you have to say in response to this,” then you are not entitled to do so. Someone refusing to dignify your opinion by responding or leaving it posted on their page is not censorship. It’s healthy moderation designed to protect the readers who are there for a good time- to curate the best possible experience for the page’s intended audience.

I have nothing better to do right now, so I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re actually having trouble understanding why Willis was not patient with you. Here’s your answer:

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Mary Poppins

“But if you think for one second, for one solitary second, that demanding tolerance for men as a group, that dismissing the reality of violence against women because not all men kill, not all men rape, if you think that’s more important than demanding justice for those who have been brutalised and murdered by those not all men, then you are part of the problem. You may not have pulled the trigger. You may not have raised your hand to a woman in your life. But you are part of the problem. This is not the time, to use the refrain of apologists for bigotry, to play devil’s advocate. The devil has more than enough advocates today. On most days, I can put up with aggressive faux-objectivity being used to shout down women’s experiences and silence gendered trauma, but not today.”

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