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Discussion on: More censorship 🤐 on DEV - Looking for a new home for my angry accessibility rants, any suggestions?

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Jay Jeckel

Read the Code of Conduct and it's pretty clear this is the type of place where certain topics are only allowed the full hugbox treatment and nothing less. Unless you're going to do that, it's best to not even bring up such topics, because anything other than exuberant positive platitudes will offend someone. Having read the article, it was only a matter of time until it got removed as comparing those two topics together in any way is going to be considered insensitive in someone's view.

As to where you can share an article without fear of censorship? Really, no where is safe these days. The closest you can get is your own site and just hope you don't go viral and get the mob's ire directed at your hosting provider. Other than that, the few censorship free places that exist would probably get my comment deleted if I named them, and they don't have a dev focus anyway, so you wouldn't likely get useful feedback.

It sucks this happened, it was an interesting article, but I hope you change your mind about cancelling the rants. This place has precious little quality content and it would be a shame to miss out on future articles.

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

Thanks Jay, if I get some clarity on where the line is then I would love to continue the rants here as I have enjoyed writing them and the responses and interactions on them.

I am also glad you have enjoyed them, but as you can imagine they take a lot longer to write than a normal post as I have to balance angry man and being offensive (the irony being that I deliberately make those articles offensive!) and the risk of a few people being offended meaning it gets removed is not one I can reconcile with (when did "being offended" become something we actually took seriously?).

I will always defend the spirit of the CoC, but you are right it is very flawed and the way it is enforced is just too much on the pandering side rather than protecting people who actually need protecting.

My private chat is open to all if you could share those places that are more open to discussion, even if they aren't tech focused, it would be really useful.

If they are not full of trolls I am more than happy to have a few heated debates with people, even engage with a few trolls as long as it isn't full of them!

I just want a platform that allows those debates to happen in the first place!