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Thankfully they had the evidence pinned for some time:

Beehaw is a community of individuals and therefore does not have any specific political affiliation.

Later:

Some of the instances that we have chosen to defederate with have explicit political stances and ideologies. Their political stance and ideology had nothing to do with the choice to defederate. The choice to defederate was based on the amount of hate speech present on the instance and/or explicitly endorsing it.

And there's more but you can just read it yourself:

https://beehaw.org/post/524300?scrollToComments=true

Obviously I support cracking down on hate speech, you can see my activity throughout this thread, which consists entirely of me doing that while taking maybe two or three asides to knock beehaw when someone else mentioned it. What I don't support is taking the absurd position that it's not a political stance.

Of course, this all works as an excellent bit of smoke and mirrors for an audience of credulous radlibs to whom you don't want to confess you are splitting with instances that are decidedly to your left -- such as Hexbear.net , the only instance which actually has site-mandated use of self-identified pronouns, which was put on the blacklist pre-emptively before it had federated with anyone (and it still hasn't) for reasons that the userbase are left to conclude are "hate speech" or its "endorsement".

we all (except republicans apparently) want to eat the rich

The dude in the headline sure seems upset about the "eat the rich" attitude, and however hard it is to see a practical difference, I am pretty sure he is not one of those Republican ghouls you are referring to. Perhaps you should reconsider how narrow the circle you are drawing is.

I think their richness factors in pretty significantly, actually -- both to how tragic their deaths are and whether or not Obama wants to jump to their defense shaming leftists for being "too radical".

He hasn't "evolved his stance on immigrants," that's pure wishful thinking. He's a rich asshole who's always been principally interested in defending the rich and wagging his finger at people who are too mean to his corporate masters.

Spare me when one of the countless butchers for the American Empire has something to say about "tragedy". Maybe take a few million from your endless funds for your Martha's Vineyard parties with dogshit celebrities and pitch in to help instead of giving us a lecture, you sanctimonious, neoliberal prick.

Note that, by laissez faire approach, I don’t mean “do nothing at all”; that’s incompetence, and incompetent admins go fuck themselves, as you said. For me, laissez faire means “keep a close watch on the situation, and intervene if necessary, but otherwise let the userbase handle it”.

"If necessary" is doing all of the work there. By your meaningless definition of the word, I agree that's a good approach, but you're letting insinuation occupy the entire point in dispute. We both know what "laissez-faire" actually means, and I think the Gilded Age showed us what a shit approach it is.

And in this case you got a rather engaged community, who’s most likely prone to engage those Nazi, and tell them to fuck off. Is admin intervention necessary in this case?

Yes, it is. I am quite familiar with how these dynamics work -- I followed r/cth for about a year before it was quarantined. It was probably the most-hated sub of its time outside of literal Nazi subs (remember TD was long-inactive at that point). People complained about it all over the place for a variety of reasons, both good and bad faith. With all the controversy, do you know what it never was before it got quarantined? And honestly not even before it was banned? Neutralized. The vocal hatred against it fed its growth, and the userbase was quite aware of this fact and took advantage of it actively. When it was finally banned, the slide in Reddit's entire user culture on the popular and political subs was palpable, and that transformation took maybe a month.

Now, unlike the Reddit admins, I won't equivocate between TD and cth, they were not the same in a pat little horseshoe theory conception because horseshoe theory is horseshit. That said, it nonetheless stands as a glaringly obvious counter example to your flimsy market solution -- as does most of Reddit's history before that, with various places much worse than cth festering quite aggressively until the admins banned it, either for their own reasons -- like cth -- or external political reasons starting from jailbait to fatpeoplehate through to WatchPeopleDie.

I’m not sure if a laissez faire approach would be a good approach in this specific case, but it’s generally a good “default” - often people managing communities cause more harm than good when they’re trying to proactively solve issues that didn’t appear yet.

Market solutions rarely work except for the rich and their lackeys, and the people who propose relying on them without any specific evidence should be regarded with suspicion. I've heard these libertarian spiels a thousand times before and, well, the only mistake I've ever made with libertarian ideology is not having enough contempt for it -- which I say having never respected it to begin with.

That’s a great point - the reversibility makes the option less drastic. Still annoying for legitimate users and admins of other instances.

Oh, it's annoying is it? That's such a shame, that it's annoying. I'll be sure to tell the minorities pushed out of the Nazi bar that preventative measures are possible but really should not be implemented because they would be annoying.

Please, give a stronger tell that you don't give a shit for the people this more gravely impacts that you acknowledge how reversible this is and yet think that it's still too much of a hassle because it's annoying.

And I said nothing because it was an entirely correct thing to do

In fact i believe if you give attention seekers a platform, they will continue to seek attention

Awesome, so you agree with the obvious conclusion that we should take their platform away by blacklisting them, right? . . . Right?

WW1 doesn't really have a "good guys, bad guys" story that follows the battle lines and the Axis was actively bankrolled by major capitalists prior to WW2, along with Germany being given permission to grow their Navy, take over Czechoslovakia, etc.

You are correct that hate must be stamped out, but it must be remembered that the cause of WW2 was fundamentally that -- while there were substantial political differences between Germany and the western Allies which made their conflict inevitable -- the nazi infestation was left to fester like it was because there was a huge amount of ideological agreement between those two camps.

Quick, who said the following:

I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China—I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

Why should they get a platform? Why should they be allowed "to simply exist"? Because the Marketplace of Ideas will sort itself out and make sure the best ideas "flourish"? I regret to inform you that the real world doesn't work like the thought experiments of classical liberalism, and TD's namesake is ironically a great demonstration of that.

Reactionary spaces should be stamped out.

You have no room to talk, your instance bends over backwards to be a safe space for neoliberals who support unipolarity and the exploitation of the third world.

"But some users disavow the US, etc."

Yeah, but virtually all of them nonetheless parrot the State Department's talking points about its enemies. That token "both sides" bullshit only supports the status quo while undermining the possibility of a positive alternative.

It's an absolute lie that they are just concerned about hatespeech -- albeit one that the admins themselves very actively promote. They pretend to be ideologically neutral, even going as far as saying "beehaw is just a collection of individuals", an ironically Thatcherite statement that suits them quite well.