Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy

Post by sneak » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 5:25 AM UTC

lenkite wrote: post #185

dalbasal wrote: post #63

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When everyone is a criminal, anyone can be arrested. The reddit mods have basically made this charge, in their own special WSB way. It's impossible for moderators to fully control large groups, subs and such. Some bannable comments will always be present, and they are limited by whatever moderation tools they get from reddit. Meanwhile, the idea that discord, reddit (throttled not banned) and FB all simultaneously an…

You just need a few saboteurs coming in and posting "hate speech" on your forum and then reporting the same. Before you know it, you are banned, you have (several) news articles objectifying you as nazis and you are doxxed to high-heaven. The only way you can get back is if you are "friends" with the big-boys or the mainstream media.

Post by vyhd » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 5:25 AM UTC

jlawson wrote: post #162

nexthash wrote: post #99

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The one time I believe you are referring to is when Cloudflare banned the Daily Stormer, which is a far-right, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, misogynist, and Holocaust denial message board website that promoted the genocide of Jews. It went far beyond the domain of free speech into advocating violence against people, not to speak of its horrific hatred and racism. Reason enough for anyone to ban it.

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Post by Rapzid » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 5:34 AM UTC

cbozeman wrote: post #271

pfraze wrote: post #49

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Okay so I completely agree but I want to add something to what’s going on Half the fun of WSB is that it is enormously offensive. The foundation of the community is that a forum talking about stock investing strategies is, at its heart, really dumb. It’s harder than most people can manage to evaluate all the “DD” flying around and any advice other than playing it safe (r/investing) is stupid to take from a rando on a…

This is not how WallStreetBets started. I joined the community in 2017 and I can tell you, there was high-level due diligence going on that made me wonder if some of the people posting might also be working at large investment banks, but couldn't get these certain trades they were advocating past their compliance guys (at some point, "too risky" starts to overlap in the Venn diagram with "too dumb"). Like every thing…

Post by Rapzid » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 5:38 AM UTC

jonny383 wrote: post #131

Funny how all of the people spurting out "It's a private company they can do what they want" after banning Donald Trump have now changed their mind about big tech censorship. The precedent of accepted censorship was set and accepted. Deal with it.

Post by mattigames » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 5:39 AM UTC

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I don't think the people who came up with that rule really accounted for one company becoming the main channel of communication for the human race.

People were using the argument five years ago, 4,3,2, yesterday. Whenever one of these monopolies does something to A that B approves of and A objects, B comes out with IAPCTCDWTW. People generally seem love to make excuses for Power when it's stepping on people they don't like, and are then somehow surprised when Power turns around and crushes them.