You could qualify it as that if the consequences I described were purely hypothetical, but they were already reached and demonstrated in practice countless times.
Often? I was thinking of some high-profile examples and I think a good one would be the Godot drama, where the moderation team accused users of being “fascists,” “bigots,” and similar terms, and proceeded to ban them when those users asked to keep political agenda out of the project.
No, I mean it’s literally the slippery slope informal fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
You could qualify it as that if the consequences I described were purely hypothetical, but they were already reached and demonstrated in practice countless times.
Countless times where people are wrongfully being accuse of fascist ideology? When?
I know they’ve done it with communism and socialism, but…
Often? I was thinking of some high-profile examples and I think a good one would be the Godot drama, where the moderation team accused users of being “fascists,” “bigots,” and similar terms, and proceeded to ban them when those users asked to keep political agenda out of the project.