> If you're openly gay and your church hates gay people, you can stop going to church or go to a different one.
Yes, the difficulty of escaping a norm enforcing institution is an important desiderata. More important than size.
The social dynamics of cults are a (politically acceptable) counter-point. Leaving a small and insular community is rarely so trivial.
> If you're openly gay and the USSR hates gay people, you're probably gonna get murdered.
This conversation started with a discussion of large social media sites and you keep bringing up authoritarian governments to prove "big = bad".
Yes, escaping a nation-state is difficult. But if you're on a political extreme and don't like a social media site's speech rules, just don't use that social media site. And deleting a social media account is infinitely easier than abandoning the social group / town where you grew up.
So here we are again.
This game is becoming a bit silly, so let me unroll an infinitely long thread by providing a template for the next 5,000 replies:
you: "X1 is small and X1 is good but X2 is big and X2 is bad."
other commenters: "X3 is big and X3 is good but X4 is small and X4 is bad"
occasionally: "Nuh-uh X{$n} is not so bad"
me: "X5 is small and bad, X6 is big and good, X7 is small and good, X8 is big and bad. It's almost like there are features other than size that better unify toxic norm enforcing communities."
Yes, the difficulty of escaping a norm enforcing institution is an important desiderata. More important than size.
The social dynamics of cults are a (politically acceptable) counter-point. Leaving a small and insular community is rarely so trivial.
> If you're openly gay and the USSR hates gay people, you're probably gonna get murdered.
This conversation started with a discussion of large social media sites and you keep bringing up authoritarian governments to prove "big = bad".
Yes, escaping a nation-state is difficult. But if you're on a political extreme and don't like a social media site's speech rules, just don't use that social media site. And deleting a social media account is infinitely easier than abandoning the social group / town where you grew up.
So here we are again.
This game is becoming a bit silly, so let me unroll an infinitely long thread by providing a template for the next 5,000 replies:
you: "X1 is small and X1 is good but X2 is big and X2 is bad."
other commenters: "X3 is big and X3 is good but X4 is small and X4 is bad"
occasionally: "Nuh-uh X{$n} is not so bad"
me: "X5 is small and bad, X6 is big and good, X7 is small and good, X8 is big and bad. It's almost like there are features other than size that better unify toxic norm enforcing communities."