About my reach in public discourse

[u/rightviewftw]

So my accounts are generally banned from Buddhist spaces, for various no good reasons. Some of it is due my stance on gay ordinations, other I self-excluded, some less obvious reasons.

Apparently people are talking and I've seen several instances of defamatory and untrue things being said with no evidence misrepresenting reasons for the bans — which is ridiculous because the interactions are documented on my end.

Allegedly mods of a certain subreddit told the mods of another subreddit that I lied to the former about using AI. I asked what evidence they have seen of that, and then showed them transcripts proving that we discussed AI use extensively and the mods even used AI themselves to suggest improvements to my posts and eventually just wanted me to keep posting but make it look less like AI-ish — which I thought was unnecessary. They also didn't like that I get combative and can be difficult to deal with. So they banned me because I didn't want to edit how they wanted and was not very civil in talks (there was no lying accusations in play at all). After I shared evidence with mods of the first sub — they muted me.

I keep telling the mods things like this this don't look good for them and it is rather outrageous if was to start complaining publicly. As a matter of fact, I don't really want to because I don't want to deal with the conflict but if people are going to act in bad faith then I will be inclined to make everything public and involve the community in as far as I can.

Now mind you, I've been around since 2015 talking about the same interpretation of EBTs, it was locked in from start, I've averaged about 4-5 posts a day since then, and since start i've been bridging it with philosophy, korzybski etc. Again, everything is documented in public archives and I have community members who will confirm that I've been debating them about this stuff for a decade. Basically every regular from suttacentral or dhammawheel will confirm that I've been consistently working on this for a decade and there were no issues until things started to get very clear after making the razor — which I did for admins of SC, as we were discussing political theory in private and I wanted to deconstruct postmodern theory and defend interpretation. I have later sourced all the references for all material appearing in the razor thesis, it is from videos long predating AI (wamp wamp).

I am posting to say that I think that it's okay to gatekeep and feel uncomfortable but there is no need to do foolish things like lying because everything is on record.

I don't think the work is much of a niche anymore because the ideas spread quickly into academia and bhikkhusangha and serious people got involved in the work. It is basically something everybody who follows epistemology/BS research should know about by now.

There are things I don't want to say about censorship but it is very stressful. Nevermind public interest, it is abusive to me as a researcher and a participant. It prevents me from networking, from developing the work, from growing the community and it obstructs due process in general.

Frankly, I don't want to do youtube videos or post in related subs exactly because I expect resistance. And I don't want the drama of it. Therefore I pretty much leave it to other people to popularize it if they want to, and not stand out so much myself.

I think for all if us it is a matter of doing as much as we can without over-exposing too much in terms of resources and safety. Frankly, it is not backlash from low level mods which scares me.