the zen of tolerance

• You are entitled to voice your opinion.
• You are not entitled to force it upon everyone.
• You are not entitled to force it upon a subgroup repeatedly.
• You are also not entitled to hurl hate towards participants, since that would disrupt communication.
• If you cannot stay respectful and friendly after being asked to, I will unsee you and advise others to do the same with a clear and brief explanation, so they can take an informed decision.

I will use technical means to realize the zen of tolerance.

Tolerance for intolerance is self-defeating. Continuous disruption of communication is censorship.

Constant outrage disrupts communication. As does constant mocking.

This could also be called the paradox of free speech: your freedom of speech is worth as much as mine. It ends where it impedes on mine. And vice versa.

In Freenet [1], the decentralized FMS forums [2] and the WebOfTrust plugin [3] implement a technical method which can be used to realize this.

First published on random_babcom [4], my Freenet Sharesite [5].