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Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
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Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#162I wonder if we've entered an new part of history with regard to moderation and enforcement of rules online.
I disliked Trump, parler and the kind of alt-right shit you could find on Twitter, but by using their right to ban anyone, I think Facebook and Twitter showed that there was no repercussion to censoring/deplatforming users that did not align with their internal values and now we will see those events become much more common as companies become risk averse with regard to the kind of content they host.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you're read the article, and the statement Discord put out? I think the stated reason is the believable. > Discord says it did not ban the server for financial fraud — rather, it was banned because it continued to allow “hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings.”
It is a shitty, disgusting and cowardly excuse, but I bet they're gonna go with "autist" and "retard" and etc. if they stick to that line.
The discord for WSB was a bit more than just ablest slurs but the timing of this is just a bad business move unless there's more to it. It doesn't make any real sense from a liability aspect unless they were going to plan some kind of insurrection against the government... you can just as easily ban them for this same reason "multiple warnings" next week. There had to have been external pressure on someone higher up or someone with a stake in the game.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#164Looks like people are migrating to https://www.reddit.com/r/Wallstreetbetsnew/
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
My history class must have skipped over the part where the american revolution was organized on twitter and facebook.
IIRC, The American revolution was coordinated and funded by the existing colonial administrations, with aid from France. It was a secessionist movement backed by regional business interests in response to a reassertion of imperial sovereignty by a previously lax British government. Something to be proud of, certainly. But not a grassroots thing, even if it did have some degree of popular support.
Calling it a secessionist movement isn't an apt characterization, which in US history calls to mind the Southerners' attempt to Secede from the USA. The revolutionaries, rather, considered themselves a number of independent colonies, coming together in opposition to British rule, where they were lacking in representation. They would not see themselves as "part" of Britain in a way the Southerners clearly were part of the USA.
In contrast, the South was fully represented in the Northern government, and Lincoln was quite conciliatory and kind to them when he was able. However, they were fighting for an extremely immoral cause, which the 1776 Revolutionaries were not really doing as the issue of slavery was much less an issue than in the 1850's.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#166Looks like there is another alternate communities springing up. Found this one: wsbets.win
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"Gay bear" is not an insult or pejorative. Most of wsb were "gay bears* in Feb - April.
And that, kids, is how I lost $100,000.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Gay bear" is not an insult or pejorative. Most of wsb were "gay bears* in Feb - April.
"Gay bear" is almost exclusively used as an insult on the subreddit, and this week has been one of the primary insults used in reference to the short sellers (everyones #1 enemy on WSB right now). It would still be pejorative even if not used that way, but it's ridiculous to claim that it's not a pejorative when it is explicitly used as an insult.
The only insults being hurled at anyone right now are to CNBC and to the hedge funds and their market maker buddies. Possibly the SEC for allowing brazen market manipulation on the part of the above.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
>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). For what is worth, they pretty much never use it actually insultingly, and do not seem to harbor any ill-will against LGBT people (and some of them are lgbt). They also mostly use those words to…
It’s banter in the style of the barbershop scene from the 2008 film ‘Gran Torino’:
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#170For those of us not in the know, what is so special about today regarding WSB? I know there's a feud with short sellers going on, but I haven't been following the details.
They've officially ticked off rich and well-connected people, so regulators are coming to shake the tree branch (I have no idea whether what they're doing is illegal or not) and the platforms want to distance themselves from that ASAP.
I have an alternative theory: the events of three weeks ago in the USA made these platforms much more trigger-happy than usual. Where before they might have let it slide, nowadays (and for a while) they will want to take no risks.