Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 6:58 PM UTC

jessaustin wrote: post #169

umvi wrote: post #98

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> Which, it probably goes without saying, should scare the shit out of anyone who cares about the principles of the free Internet Big tech companies are largely left-leaning internally (which isn't surprising since California is the most left leaning state), so there is nothing to fear as long as you lean left yourself, (i.e. I guarantee you won't be censored for left-leaning speech any time soon).

We need a name for this, when USA conservatives are so sheltered from political thought that they can't tell the Left from the Centre-Right. Lots of leftist stuff has been censored in 2020, yet one repeatedly encounters this blissfully ignorant sentiment. https://twitter.com/sunraysunray/status/1320078487970041856

Post by tokai » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 6:58 PM UTC

eyelidlessness wrote: post #17

Exuma wrote: post #6

What else is new, censorship is OK as long as only one side is doing it.

No one is being censored. You’re perfectly welcome to go on 4chan or breitbart or parler or even other subreddits or just build a new platform. No one is entitled to use other people’s resources and effort to have their views amplified without moderation by those people offering that service. Edit: every time I post a comment like this here I get downvoted. I’m not complaining, downvote away. But I have to wonder if…

Post by enriquto » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 6:58 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #41

ravenstine wrote: post #37

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That's the danger in going to such lengths to shut down disagreeable viewpoints. People say "make your own website", but that becomes a race to the bottom when we start politicizing server hosts and ISPs. When you completely shut people up, that doesn't mean they're gone, and now you don't know what they're thinking. Meanwhile you're actually tyrannical because a monopoly on information makes the mass 80% believe tha…

What other options do you have if you can't educate or have intellectual discourse with people who are fabricating reality or deeply believe in conspiracy theories? It's like trying to pull someone out of a cult like Scientology. Of course, attempt to engage to improve the situation and help someone obtain ground truth on their own from legitimate information sources, but when it's obviously hopeless insulate yoursel…

Post by koolk3ychain » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 6:58 PM UTC

Post by gfodor » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 6:59 PM UTC

daniel957 wrote: post #246

gfodor wrote: post #124

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I disagree, as someone who observed this site as well as everything else, I can tell you at least for me my prior was heavily influenced by the shift in tone, sentiment, and desperation I observed there relative to the usual din of more front-facing social media grifters.

Oh, I think that’s just a convoluted way of saying you lived in a bubble. It was quite clear that this was going to happen. No one on my timeline is shocked at all. In fact, I’ve been complaining about these deplorables since 2013 (even before the phrase was coined).