Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

Post by andybak » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 10:09 AM UTC

monksy wrote: post #543

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This is difficult because there are different definitions of 'right' as well as different environments. They can be successful at the ballot box nationally but still be persecuted. Remember that Brendan Eich was forced out of Mozilla for his views. To be a professor in University of California one has to pass a political litmus test. So yea I do think there is persecution.

> Remember that Brendan Eich was forced out of Mozilla for his views. He was forced out due to a 1000$ personal donation to a political group that was Christian/right leaning. Political speak: "Incompatible/Hostile views"

Post by thatoneuser » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 10:19 AM UTC

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Don't think in terms of minorities and majorities. Here's a quick simple list: hating on men, white people, Christians, heterosexuals and conservatives is fine. Everything else is hate speech.

Kind of funny how HN is downvoting you even though they all know this is the truth. People are so drunk on lies and political correctness that they can't even think straight.

Post by raxxorrax » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 10:24 AM UTC

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> For example, many groups that advocate the dissolution of the nuclear family or sexual revolution have a communist origin There is some history to that and I think this criticism was directed at family structures in Germany and other countries around the start of the last century. People today probably could not imagine anymore, but children at the time would have never even thought about disagreeing with their par…

Such kids-seniors relation is not a requirement of nuclear family structure at all. Somehow people managed to keep nuclear families intact with very wide range of intra-generational attitudes. A lot of critique of nuclear family is talking specifically about family where kids are raised by parents and how that is unfair to kids who weren't so lucky with good parents. In the early soviet union, some of more radical re…

Post by rainonmoon » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 10:33 AM UTC

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Social media companies and "the left" are not the same. Although they surely have some overlap (just as social media companies and "the right" surely have some overlap), conflating them entirely with each other is simply false. We cannot assign political conspiracies to entire industries.

I don't think the claim is that social media is inherently leftist, but rather than leftists have mounted attacks on all social media companies that don't actively censor right-wing opinions (see current ad boycott targeted at Facebook). I think the success of these campaigns are extremely concerning and a reminder that peace and prosperity are not a given.

Post by kaens » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 10:55 AM UTC

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I'm not seeing "school vouchers" or "individual responsibility", classical pillars of Conservative values, being censored. I am seeing a ton of censoring of racist and hateful comments, both openly so and dog whistles. So unless you're claiming that right-wing values are inherently racist or hateful...

You aren't seeing that content censored, because that content has been censored, and its posters vilified so completely, for so long, that it has disappeared. There are virtually zero republicans or conservatives on any social media site -- they know they aren't welcome, so they don't engage very much. You don't see them being censored because, at this point, they self-censor. Who wants to be doxxed and have their em…