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Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?

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Re: Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?

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"We're suffering from success and our Discord was the first casualty. You know as well as I do that if you gather 250k people in one spot someone is going to say something that makes you look bad. That room was golden and the people that run it are awesome. We blocked all bad words with a bot, which should be enough, but apparently if someone can say a bad word with weird unicode icelandic characters and someone can screenshot it you don't get to hang out with your friends anymore. Discord did us dirty and I am not impressed with them destroying our community"

Key point for me. Under the guise of 'hate speech' suppression is occurring. Of course every platform has the right to dictate users of their platform yada yada...

Re: Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?

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post #3

"We're suffering from success and our Discord was the first casualty. You know as well as I do that if you gather 250k people in one spot someone is going to say something that makes you look bad. That room was golden and the people that run it are awesome. We blocked all bad words with a bot, which should be enough, but apparently if someone can say a bad word with weird unicode icelandic characters and someone can…

Yeah this was a low blow from Discord

I get they're probably scared as hell, but they don't even take care of the child porn or child grooming Discords.

It's not even slightly paranoid to say that somebody gave financial incentive to make this happen, but for them to censor with absolute bullshit reasoning behind it... This is just not good.

Re: Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?

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> a Discord spokesperson told Gizmodo that the channel had been banned “for continuing to allow hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings.” On both Discord and Reddit, WallStreetBets users frequently refer to themselves collectively as “retards” and “autists,” and have been known to deploy the kinds of racial slurs and deliberately offensive language that have become commonplace in 4chan-style posting forums. [0]

[0]: https://gizmodo.com/discord-bans-r-wallstreetbets-for-hate-s...

Re: Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?

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post #4
post #3

"We're suffering from success and our Discord was the first casualty. You know as well as I do that if you gather 250k people in one spot someone is going to say something that makes you look bad. That room was golden and the people that run it are awesome. We blocked all bad words with a bot, which should be enough, but apparently if someone can say a bad word with weird unicode icelandic characters and someone can…

Yeah this was a low blow from Discord I get they're probably scared as hell, but they don't even take care of the child porn or child grooming Discords. It's not even slightly paranoid to say that somebody gave financial incentive to make this happen, but for them to censor with absolute bullshit reasoning behind it... This is just not good.

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Re: Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?

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- https://upvotocracy.com/a/wallstreetbets - https://www.reddit.com/r/Wallstreetbetsnew/ - https://ruqqus.com/+wallstreetbets - /join ##wallstreetbets on freenode You cut off the head, a dozen more emerge.

Do that enough times and you just might snowshoe it out to less effectiveness/influence.

Re: Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?

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post #7

- https://upvotocracy.com/a/wallstreetbets - https://www.reddit.com/r/Wallstreetbetsnew/ - https://ruqqus.com/+wallstreetbets - /join ##wallstreetbets on freenode You cut off the head, a dozen more emerge.

Do that enough times and you just might snowshoe it out to less effectiveness/influence.

This is precisely what works, unfortunately. Each time you deplatform a group, only a certain percentage of the most dedicated users follow to the next iteration.

Re: Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?

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post #7

- https://upvotocracy.com/a/wallstreetbets - https://www.reddit.com/r/Wallstreetbetsnew/ - https://ruqqus.com/+wallstreetbets - /join ##wallstreetbets on freenode You cut off the head, a dozen more emerge.

Do that enough times and you just might snowshoe it out to less effectiveness/influence.

We clearly should not be doing this. This is the slippery slope.
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