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I don't believe abuses are okay if you have more market power, and I don't believe they will stop with Kiwifarms, which was not the first victim of this phenomenon. I was active on…

Most of my outrage is aimed at censorship of left-wing and antiwar content. Much of which is already banned from most of reddit and deranked from google - I don't want to see the w…

and if people think your code of conduct is too harshly enforced they can and will go elsewhere, there are thousands of badminton clubs in the world. Different strokes for differen…

would be nice to have somewhere to blow off steam but the internet is down to like four or five active sites now and none of them are fun (KF wasn't either, mind)

I don't believe in "freedom of association" for monopolies and oligopolies, it's an end-run around our rights by another means. And "freedom of association" was also the excuse giv…

I want content-neutral infrastructure. KF are scum and much of what they do should be illegal, but I want those decisions made in a court of law where they can defend themselves, n…

saying "your critiques are bad and you're a grifter" is a far cry from ruining someone's life and doing anything worse got you banned

A lot of marginalized groups (or at least their loudest activists) used the internet to organize and then pulled the ladder up behind them, and I don't want to live a society where…

then prosecute them, don't let corporate monopolies play judge, jury, and executioner

Hard to think of that many positions more right-wing than "corporate monopolies should be able to disappear anything you say on a whim with no safeguards" but that's the one you're…

It's quite disputable that google even has the right to a platform of anywhere near their current power and influence (waiting for antitrust law to be enforced) and the distinction…

Corporate monopolies can easily force one-sided contracts on users, but that's just a reflection of their market power. In a perfect world judges would rule them unenforceable, in …

There are almost 40 million black Americans and the only one to make president went to top private schools and was raised by his WASP mom

It's a proprietary license and a super vague and broad one at that. At least Microsoft won't yank my usage rights if I pay them enough.