I was part of a "home education group" as a child and there was one family there who were Catholic and educated their kids in their religion (creationism and everything probably). Is that what you're talking about? Because they seem to have turned out alright too.
geopol, nazi/antifa discourse
@admitsWrongIfProven I was homeschooled before secondary school and I turned out fine.
“The police were knocking at the door, and one day they took the children to school, and the children were crying because the policemen took the schoolbags by force,” Uwe Romeike told Deutsche Welle in 2009.
The family also faced “fines eventually totaling over $11,000” and “threats that they would lose custody of their children,” according to The New York Times.
The Romeikes had run afoul of schulpflicht, Germany’s legal duty to send children to state-approved schools. The intent, explains the country’s Federal Constitutional Court, is to prevent “the emergence of religious or ideologically motivated ‘parallel societies’” that disagree with prevailing ideas.
(Bold emphasis mine; but I don’t speak German so I can’t judge whether Reason’s interpretation of the law is accurate)
If this isn’t authoritarian to you then I don’t know what to say.
More flexible moderation and self-moderation (blocking, muting) tools and more due process for admin moderation would be nice.
Have you seen any of my posts about flexible filter lists?
Instead of blocking and muting, I want to be able to write scripts consisting of a collection of "filters" which would each consist of a pattern followed by an action. The pattern would be a boolean expression that could contain variables related to the post content, media, author, instance of origin, title/cw field etc and would support regex matching. The action would be to hide all media, hide specific media (potentially based on the aforementioned variables), hide posts, with or without leaving a header that tells you that something was hidden and being able to program what that header says per-filter.
Should also be able to import filter scripts written by people you trust the judgement.
This sounds a lot like MRFs, I know, but AFAIK you can't let end users write MRFs for security reasons (?) so maybe a domain-specific language would be better? It would certainly be easier/more fun to write.
With such flexible tools for users and admins they could do things like block/ban an entire server *except* for a handful of users that are actually OK. Wanting to do that is what lead me to this idea in the first place.