Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

Post by ammple » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 3:33 AM UTC

ehsankia wrote: post #381

btmiller wrote: post #353

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Parler was explicitly unmoderated by choice and hate speech was its selling point. You’ll have a hard time finding a) a service provider willing to tolerate that and b) much public sympathy for the service promoting hate. Yet it called into question freedom of speech. Same thing today with WSB, but the focus is clearly not hate speech (even if Discord says so). I find today’s bans way more objectionable than Parler,…

And if you intentionally want to have content that is objectionable, putting it on AWS seems like an awful idea. That's how Sci-Hub and TPB have managed to stick around for decades, and they've shown censorship on the internet isn't really a thing. God knows how many powerful forces have tried to censor them, to no avail. While I agree that in some ways this is worse than the Parler case, it also is a free service th…

Post by Sunspark » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 3:35 AM UTC

jeffreyrogers wrote: post #325

underseacables wrote: post #247

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“ a lot of users are going to be upset and will suddenly start to realize that a single company has a monopoly on their online social life” I agree with you, but I lament that outside of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit, it’s been very hard for any social media company to gain traction.

It doesn't help that one of the most recent ones to try was deplatformed as it was gaining many new users.

Post by Rapzid » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 3:39 AM UTC

cbozeman wrote: post #263

mrtksn wrote: post #133

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See, the problem is that people are doing all this because they believe that it doesn’t matter. These are not idealists or indoctrinated revolutionaries. No one is going to do anything if it’s not going to bring lulz or cash quickly because nothing matters anyway. All the anti establishment movement is nihilistic in its core. These are not Eastern European kids who dream to finish school and go to Western Europe and…

The worst, or maybe the best, part of your post is that you don't realize the American youth from the 60s literally created this generation with their greed and entitlement.

Post by meekrohprocess » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 3:42 AM UTC

SirensOfTitan wrote: post #259

Remember: Parler tried “making their own X”. They were taken offline by a concerted effort at every level, despite the fact that a large portion of the capitol protests were organized on Facebook and YouTube. Anyone who’s ever been an activist for long enough knows that the censorship that silenced your enemies will eventually silence you. Corporate policing of speech needs to stop.

Post by SamBam » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 3:48 AM UTC

fennecfoxen wrote: post #243

kgin wrote: post #17

I have no doubt the timing was extremely intentional.

The timing was more or less "hey this pump and dump scam on our platform is getting a bunch of negative attention." People seem to think they were paid off by some big players. Ha! In their dreams.