Old school chat forums in the time of internet censorship and thought crimes

[Maxx (Max)]

@MrAuthoritarian

I think that internet forums like this are going to become popular once again in the near future because as internet censorship, thought crimes, and wrongthink increases politically in our world on all the mainstream larger corporate platforms smaller independent platforms like this are going to become the last bastions of free speech as small holdouts of the old world in contrast to the nightmarish new world they’re trying to construct everywhere.

I think the difference of an ‘old-fashioned’ place like this and Tik Tok, Insta, even YouTube is that there you can’t have any type of serious discussion, it’s all very superficial, one guy speaks and all the audience just applauds enthusiastically, also each one chooses his niche and closes himself in his own limited circle, where nothing is ever questioned, he only accepts the opinions of those who rigorously agree with him.

As I had written before in an open letter to Carleas:

@Maxx

I have been everywhere on the virtualverse. Name a social network, I’ve been or am there. Instagram, MSN, X, TikTok, Facebook, Reddit, Blogger, YouTube. My conclusion about of all of them is the same: most people have absolutely nothing worthwhile to say. But even though recognizing and accepting that, I still prefer a lot of people talking whatever shit that goes through their minds than censorship. As Voltaire once said:

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

That’s what I endorse as a free-thinker.

Here in this place we see the many sides of human-kind, the stupid and the wise, the open-minded and the fundamentalist, the liberal and the conservative, and I would never say it’d be desirable if only the one side would have a voice. Not that I love stupidity. But I want it exposed. So, even the most preposition and obnoxious notions I see espoused here have a purpose. In them I recognize not only what me, the free man, has to fight against, but also the kind of thing I endorsed when I was younger and much less sure of what I am and believe that I am now. “Was I like that when I was young? Was I that immature? So I have a reason to be satisfied with what I am now.”