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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

mc32 wrote: post #202
Blikkentrekker wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“retard” is the most ironic example of the ineffectiveness of the euphemism treadmill. And now, on GameFAQs , I could not include the term “tardive dyskinesia” in a post. It was refused because apparently the four character sequence “tard” cannot occur in any word. They could, at the very least, simply implement a system that a human moderator receives an immediate notification when a any of their banned words is use…

That ridiculous. There have been a few references to the Scunthorpe problem lately, so I won’t repeat it. Are kids going to be prohibited from saying “tardy” When they’re late?

Will they be able to talk about tardigrades during biology class?

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Post by marliechiller »

ndnskzkzn wrote: post #472
ThomPete wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no pump and dump scheme that haven't been allowed by the hedge funds for decades.

Why does everybody assume there is not some hedge fund behind this short squeeze? Do hedge funds not know how to do social media marketing? Why go on CNBC to announce your position when you can pay some kids and influencers to shitpost on wsb to rile up an online mob and leave no fingerprints? It is crazy to me how ppl continually fall for this stuff? How does any mass online movement not trigger skepticism? I mean l…

Cant you easily tell where the invested money is coming from? if its coming from corporate accounts then it would obviously be another hedge fund but as far as I was aware these were lots of accounts from armchair investment platforms like robinhood etc

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Post by throwaway3699 »

jonathankoren wrote: post #386
ve55 wrote: post #14

And they chose today as the best possible time to enact this ban? Really? I really think they should have put more thought into the timing of this decision; 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 (this may seem like an exaggeration, but it feels quite true to me colloquially, especially if you're a younger US male and/or…

> I really think they should have put more thought into the timing of this decision; 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 (this may seem like an exaggeration, but it feels quite true to me colloquially, especially if you're a younger US male and/or play video games). What? I have never used Discord. If you think that a…

Email is not comparable to Discord... Teamspeak and Mumble are dying because everyone moved to Discord -- and all the professional meeting solutions are awful.

What should I use if it's so easy?

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Post by skocznymroczny »

Traster wrote: post #714
NotPavlovsDog wrote: post #669

This is really exciting, feels like open standards, independent internet is going to continue getting extreme motivation to expand and establish, with private "freedom of speech" censorship by for-profit platforms. We're going to see more fragmentation, and growth of closed platforms perceived by users as "slightly less evil" such as telegram vs watsapp. This may also motivate the return to truly open internet ideals…

People need to stop being so lazy and throwing around the word censorship. If a bunch or teenagers come into my coffee shop and start loudly calling each autists and retards I'm going to kick them out. I'm not censoring them by kicking them out.

Your coffee shop is not relevant on the global scale. But with big platforms like Facebook, it's not easy to opt out from them. Facebook and other platforms aren't just social media for teenagers. Many companies nowadays only have a Facebook/Whatsapp profile as their only contact point. If you get banned from these services you miss out on accessing a wide share of services, not related to social media.

Also, if you have people coming to your coffee shop and acting badly, people can judge it for themselves and form their own opinion. On the internet, bans are quiet and you can easily silence a large chunk of the userbase without making a noise.

You may cheer these big platforms now because it's only "racists, white supremacists and crooks" being banned, but as soon as the first group of people you agree with gets blocked from these platforms you'll be the first one to fight for freedom of speech.

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Post by imtringued »

Traster wrote: post #714
NotPavlovsDog wrote: post #669

This is really exciting, feels like open standards, independent internet is going to continue getting extreme motivation to expand and establish, with private "freedom of speech" censorship by for-profit platforms. We're going to see more fragmentation, and growth of closed platforms perceived by users as "slightly less evil" such as telegram vs watsapp. This may also motivate the return to truly open internet ideals…

People need to stop being so lazy and throwing around the word censorship. If a bunch or teenagers come into my coffee shop and start loudly calling each autists and retards I'm going to kick them out. I'm not censoring them by kicking them out.

But you gave them private rooms where nobody else can hear them.

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Post by jug »

It does feel like a watershed moment regarding hedge funds. This is the first time netizens capitalize on hedge fund short favorites and it has been surprisingly easy to cause an absolute catastrophy in the order of billion losses for them. I heard Melvin Capital may even have gone bankrupt?

And how to do it? You get people to invest in a stock that is expected by the industry to go belly up. Seriously. It's that easy. It's not illegal. It's so easy that even semiprofessionals can understand exactly which stock are hedge fund favorites. It's not hard information to come by. And, here's the kicker: There is a potential monetary reward if you enter and exit a stock at the right moment.

So it's simple to discover and execute, and there is a financial incentive, and it's not against the law. This is a trifecta of properties that makes this very interesting to follow indeed.

I just saw this article too: As hedge funds try to cover losses, the rings are now spreading over the market: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-26/hedge-fun...

The author speculates that this might even ultimately trigger a market correction.

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Post by Jonnax »

ben509 wrote: post #769
Traster wrote: post #714

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People need to stop being so lazy and throwing around the word censorship. If a bunch or teenagers come into my coffee shop and start loudly calling each autists and retards I'm going to kick them out. I'm not censoring them by kicking them out.

Of course you're censoring them. You would also be censoring people if you ran an upscale restaurant with a dress code and standards of behavior, or if you didn't let them post ads on the walls. As long as you make your rules clear and enforce them fairly, censorship and standards of behavior are completely fine. The very large social media platforms all market themselves as being neutral. They got to be the largest…

Discord doesn't market themselves as being neutral and they have community guidelines:

https://discord.com/guidelines

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Post by throwaway3699 »

trianglem wrote: post #530
TechBro8615 wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that 4Chan itself has not been the target of deplatforming efforts is confusing to me. If I were to put my tinfoil hat on for a bit, I might speculate that it’s a honeypot that shares data with the feds.

4chan has been responsible for turning so many kids into racists using humor. I remember a whole period in like 2010 when there was a — before 4chan I used to see black people as “black person in a suit”, now I see black people as “terribly racist caricature”. I would hate to see it go but boy is that place the true breeding ground for hate.

That's on you, dude. Most 4channers are just having a laugh and aren't racist.

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Post by nix23 »

ggggtez wrote: post #732
NotPavlovsDog wrote: post #669

This is really exciting, feels like open standards, independent internet is going to continue getting extreme motivation to expand and establish, with private "freedom of speech" censorship by for-profit platforms. We're going to see more fragmentation, and growth of closed platforms perceived by users as "slightly less evil" such as telegram vs watsapp. This may also motivate the return to truly open internet ideals…

I don't know where you even come up with these outdated ideas. Very few people care about what you are talking about. The subset of people who care are: tech savvy, young, mostly male, and vaguely misanthropic. This demographic is already served in numerous places, and everyone else is rather glad to see these people chased off of platforms they use for sharing videos of dancing and food.

>Very few people care about what you are talking about.

The flood of messages i got (XX is on Signal now) from techies and non-techies speak another language.

>tech savvy, young, mostly male, and vaguely misanthropic.

You forgot the word "white" ;)

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