Your conclusion doesn’t follow. A community is fully in its rights to use social pressure to discourage things it disagrees with (like libel suits), and others are fully in their rights to do those discouraged things anyway if they’re willing to bear the social costs.
Cults also famously use all kinds of pressure tactics to prevent members from seeking out the law. This is bad. We should not be like this.
This is fallacious reasoning. It equivocates social discouragement with the far more extreme pressure tactics of cults. It also equivocates “discouraging libel suits” with “prevent from seeking out the law”. And it implies that only cults do this kind of discouragement.
Separately, comparing Habryka to a cult-leader is a remarkable and remarkably unfounded non-sequitur.
What is up with the voting patterns on this post?_? My comment sits at 0 karma (3 votes) and −17 agreement karma (5 votes), and yet no-one bothered to reply or react to any part of it?
A lot of people have strong, competing opinions about this topic. The votes on my own comments have been all over the place, often careening wildly from one hour to the next.
Your conclusion doesn’t follow. A community is fully in its rights to use social pressure to discourage things it disagrees with (like libel suits), and others are fully in their rights to do those discouraged things anyway if they’re willing to bear the social costs.
This is fallacious reasoning. It equivocates social discouragement with the far more extreme pressure tactics of cults. It also equivocates “discouraging libel suits” with “prevent from seeking out the law”. And it implies that only cults do this kind of discouragement.
Separately, comparing Habryka to a cult-leader is a remarkable and remarkably unfounded non-sequitur.
What is up with the voting patterns on this post?_? My comment sits at 0 karma (3 votes) and −17 agreement karma (5 votes), and yet no-one bothered to reply or react to any part of it?
A lot of people have strong, competing opinions about this topic. The votes on my own comments have been all over the place, often careening wildly from one hour to the next.