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I'm not saying force people to listen. I'm just discouraging censoring them. And it doesn't matter what examples you use. There could come out a study tomorrow saying talking to children about sexual desires in detail reduces sexual shame and clinical depression, and your example would fall flat. Should schools be forced to teach something like that? No. Should they be encouraged to? If it is evidently true, absolutely. Free Speech Absolutism is about allowing all free speech, and encouraging, not forcing, all to listen.

My point is, don't just defederate without giving it a lot of thought, listen to opinions, and careful analysis. For all we know, that propaganda on that instance could turn out to be true and we were the ones who were wrong. Or maybe only one or two actors are bad, and the rest just like dark humor. Defederating means every single post on every single community on that instance goes, and I personally don't think some propaganda or hate speech is enough to defederate. I think defederation should be for preventing spam bots, targeted harassment and distribution of illegal content, not to protect users from insensitive jokes or misinformation. That should be up to the individual users.

Take OP for an example. Without any real evidence op claims that the instance is full of baseless propaganda, but fails to give a single example. As someone who has never even heard of the instance before, for all I know, op could just as well be biased and just wants all conservative instances blocked. I did see the trans joke post on their page, and while I agree it is insensitive, is it "let's have nothing to do with any user on that instance" insensitive?