Society Will Only Improve Owing to People Who Push Boundaries
Push boundaries with ideas and facts, not with forbidden language
This site always used child-friendly language; it was always hard to condemn the site or mandate a de facto ban on it based on something like "family-friendliness" because people who know me (online and offline) would describe my language as fairly "clean" and I tend to only collaborate with like-minded polite people, not people who say "s---" and "f---" in public (while claiming to have "reputation"; they clearly lack it, ego and narcissism are not "reputation").
The thing about strong language (not something like "Microsoft is sleazy" but something like "f--- Microsoft") is, it makes it a lot easier to get oneself censored, even shadowbanned in so-called "platforms" (such as YouTube, GAFAM). It also makes it easier to incite judges against oneself; they are very sensitive to language and style, sometimes more so than to underlying substance (lawyers know how to obscure their real intentions; they can use burner accounts to curse and make illegal threats).
The other day we published "If Not Now, Then When?" - the idea one must not wait for others to do the activism but instead participate all along - as in, "do your share!" (Or do not be selfish/passive)
Fighting for freedom and justice is a tiring toil. But people have always done it, the question was how many people and how (authorities tend to limit the permissible range of methods, varying across cultures and times).
A hundred years ago it was 'risky' here to insult "The Crown"; we seems to be moving away from a more "Victorian" legal system, more so this week. We're happy to say we've played a role in this.
Criticism and dissent are driving society forward. Critique being 'criminalised' is what begets unquestionable dictatorship where the unquestioning populace can be literally beaten up for singing. █