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I think you are missing the point of the article. What it is talking about is that westerners often like to impose their standards on other cultures. Sure if you dont like "lolicon" or whatever thats fine, and you can block it on your instance. But you cant expect self-censorship from another community where it is considered normal.
To be honest i dont understand this thinking that every instance should federate with every other, and that blocking is something bad (also mentioned by @poVoq@lemmy.ml). In my view, the main point of the fediverse is that every instance can set its own rules, and decide on its own who to federate with (based on preferences of the local community). And especially for niche instances from completely different cultures and languages, there is little reason to federate.
I don't think anyone in the fedi is actively trying to report pawoo to authorities or get them taken offline. Most of the time they make a moral call and choose defederation. No one from the "blue" side of the fedi is harrassing "red" users. All my other posts are an attempt to illustrate it's quite the opposite. The "red" side of the fedi gets easily offended by people arguing for defederation from their instances and takes it as a personal attack and a reason to harass queer and minority people in retaliation. But they don't seem to register that #fediblock is an integral part of community self-preservation.
Exactly. And this nothing, nothing at all different to how we do exactly the same in real life all of the time. Both at group levels and individually. the only difference is that online from a technical perspective you'll have explicit block/allowlists that are the abstractions to how we don't want to be exposed to certain things in certain contexts IRL.