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Wouldn't it be nice if Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc.. banned everyone, and humanity was forced to go back to a pre-social-media lifestyle.
And leave no way for common people to organize against the status quo. The establishment sure would love that. Why are you on HN then in the first place?
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And leave no way for common people to organize against the status quo. The establishment sure would love that. Why are you on HN then in the first place?
My history class must have skipped over the part where the american revolution was organized on twitter and facebook.
>required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.[1][2] Printed materials included legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers, and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies, and it had to be paid in British currency, not in colonial paper money.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765
The printing press was the social media of the 18th century. And just like then the powers that be have no idea what to do with it and are trying to put the Ginnie back in the bottle.
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WSB is notorious for also posting a lot of anti-LGBT slurs (for example, one of WSBs favorite insults is calling someone a "gay bear", or more commonly a rainbow emoji followed by a bear emoji, or even calling people f*gs). Also worth noting that the Discord group is so much worse than WSB the subreddit. Sometimes on the Discord server there are just people spamming the N word for no reason.
And who exactly is hurt here? I've never heard of this subreddit before, nor it's Discord Server, but I do know that one doesn't just stumble upon either on accident. The only people being hurt here are the ones that went looking to be hurt. What we have here is a group of immature people, emboldened by internet anonymity, saying stupid things for the "lolz". Does anyone think they'll be more mature because their ser…
We are at a point where certain languages are being banned and made illegal, you can't blame people for being worried that we are on the cusp of totalitarianism.
The banning of discord and r/wsb going private is quite scary, especially given the timing.
I guess hedge fund managers are just like mob bosses, they do not like being played.
edit: why is it that ANY mention of the github nazi incident gets INSTANTLY mass downvoted and flagged? Every single comment about this on HN gets censored.
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The thought crossed my mind too, but if so then why?
well the r/wsb subreddit has gone private too. We are experiencing technical difficulties based on unprecedented scale as a result of the newfound interest in WSB. We are unable to ensure Reddit's content policy and the WSB rules are enforceable without a technology platform that can support automation of this enforcement. WSB will be back. This seems like a DDOS attack on r/wsb well knowing that the moderators canno…
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And leave no way for common people to organize against the status quo. The establishment sure would love that. Why are you on HN then in the first place?
My history class must have skipped over the part where the american revolution was organized on twitter and facebook.
How much do you think it would cost to pay the top mod of /r/wsb (which is now private) to make the sub private? How much to some discord admins to ban the discord?
Is that amount more or less than the billions these hedgies were losing?