Censorship: What content on Quora should be banned for being offensive to women?
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Related to: Quora is a private forum and banning doesn't use the force that the state uses in censorship.
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Answer:
The problem here is the definition of "offensive to women". Offens...
James Liu at Quora Visit the source
Other answers
Well a good idea would be to ask the women themselves. There are various women groups on here and there does seem to be a consensus. In my experience women are pretty accodomotating, they prefer to interact with people and persuade and hate to be the person telling someone they can't play. The big problem seems never to be a single post, but repetetive and boring sexism, giving the idea that they aren't welcome. I would certainly think Quora could exist quite happily with half the "Why are women irrational/inferior/stupid/some stereotype I heard somewhere?" questions Whilst I have no problem with the question being asked it doesn't have to be repeated ad nauseam, remove the worst ones. This also applies to dating questions. There are a lot of questions along the lines "My girlfriend dumped me, why are all women cruel/heartless/ manipulative. One or two might be interesting but a whole succession is a little dull. There is a time to really question whether something new is being added. Mostly I think it is less about banning content itself, but about the style of the content. There does seem to be a strand of discussion I'll call "shouty male". This is popular in STEM subjects, so there are people who will be confrontational and say "What could a woman understand about mechanics/maths/science/ the world." So I'd suggest nothing need be banned, just not repeated, it gets tiresome. I certainly think any content promoting harm to women be banned. For example anyone saying wife-beating is good, or rape is a cure. I'm not a fan of Rape Culture jokes either, it isn't humour, it's oppression. Finally as a male, I don't think brogrammers should be banned, but I sure wish they'd shut up. You make us all look like abject assholes.
Joe Geronimo Martinez
I can't say it any better than these answers. I am the only person with the right to decide what is offensive to me.
M. A. Steinberger
The same books that should be banned for being offensive to anyone, which is to say none whatsoever.
Ilya Veygman
I don't feel like anything should be banned, if you don't like the content, resent the answers etc... move on. ~Sherry
Sherry Stapf-Tolisano
Brian I have already put an answer up so not able to add to this. stan
Stan Hayward
Questions that intend to be offensive to be women, often end up offensive to all decent people! Sometimes, some people have life experiences, due to which they genuinely hold some people in lower respect, and they may ask genuine questions that come through as offensive. The women on Quora, as far as I have seen, don't need to be protected through censorship, since they can be quite articulate with their responses, and they offer various perspectives that are invaluable to the primary purpose of Quora - to share knowledge. So, even those who may unwittingly ask questions that are offensive, and those who intend to do that, should have an equal chance of getting what they have coming. What would be nice is a feature that lets dismissing anonymity if there are a certain number of requests for that - on any question or answer or comment!
Bala Senthil Kumar
This question presupposes the idea that women are fragile little flowers that need protecting. They aren't you know. Nothing should be banned because it offends anyone. If something does actual harm, that is something completely different, and should be adjudicated by the proper authorities, but ideas? That is the path to censorship... which is fine as long a I get to be the censor. I personally am offended all the time. I do not expect the rest of the world to change itself to protect me.
Clell Harmon
No content should be banned on Quora unless it violates Quora policy.
Stephanie Vardavas
I have to agree with most of the other answers here. I think content that's abusive, harassing, hate speech, or otherwise in violation of the terms of service that everyone agreed to should be banned, since the person putting up such content is not living up their agreement. But these are things that are not specifically offensive to women. They might be offensive to women, but they can also be offensive to men.
Karen Kavanaugh
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