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I remember asking someone why Cyberpunk died and he said, a dystopian and orwellian future where we lose our individuality in favor of technical advancement? Wh
by 1_2__3 10y ago
I remember asking someone why Cyberpunk died and he said, a dystopian and orwellian future where we lose our individuality in favor of technical advancement? Why would anyone be interested in that as fiction, it's what we're living today.
- dominotw 10y agoThe great purge on twitter has begun. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/11/15/twitter-suspends-alt-right-accounts/93943194/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/11/15/twitter-s...
- mc32 10y agoTwitter reserves the right to kick out whomever it feels violates their policy. As a corporate entity, they have that right. What I don't agree with is the targeting of a single ideology. If they are doing this in the name of sanitizing content, fine, but sanitize hate speech from all sides. That said, my preference would be for them to provide better tools for people to manage content of hate or abuse. Of course then we get the echo chamber effect.
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- myowncrapulence 10y agoTwitter reserves the right to kick out whomever it feels violates their policy. As a corporate entity, they have that right. One could have argued for that same premise for the "government" in the dark ages. At what point does an entity have to obtain enormous power over everyday life to become seen as a "government"? And at what point do we allow our basic lives to become so censored by corporations before we acknowledge it as hampering our first amendment?
- voxic11 10y agoWhen they have a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. Next question.
- myowncrapulence 10y agolegitimate use of force Explain this. What would you consider "legitimate"? Next question. And try not to sound like such an arrogant piece of shit next time you hand-wave difficult questions which challenge your perception of right and wrong.
- voxic11 10y agoSorry I was an ass. But I do really think your question has had a very good answer for over 300 years. What is considered legitimate is necessarily a subjective call, and will differ from community to community.
- untog 10y agoThe great purge... of alt-right, white supremacist accounts, yes.
- vidarh 10y agoI love how the guy they've talked to compares his banning to Hitlers purge of SA leaders. The purge of SA happened after Hindenburg threatened Hitler with martial law if Hitler didn't reign in SA (though Hitler had his own motives for going along with it - they were a threat to him as well), which were seen as particularly nasty and brutal. Comparing yourself with the people that other parts of German society at the time literally saw as worse than Hitler is perhaps not quite what to go for when trying to elicit sympathy. He should at the very least then not complain if people call him a nazi.
- tim333 10y agoAlso the SA purge resulted in extrajudicial executions, possibly even worse than a Twitter ban.
- Animats 10y agoThis may backfire. White Power is mainstream now.
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- geuis 10y agoNo it's not.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoMainstream is not a synonym for "morally acceptable". It's a battleground of what we allow to be normal.
- pjc50 10y agoA few days late and dollars short there. Meanwhile, it's not the partisan purge you think it is: Kevin Allred posted "would conservatives care as much abt the 2nd amendment if guns killed more white people? a question meant to expose double standard" https://twitter.com/KevinAllred/status/798751660340195328 https://twitter.com/KevinAllred/status/798751660340195328 and gets the police coming to him https://twitter.com/KevinAllred/status/798729156557205504 https://twitter.com/KevinAllred/status/798729156557205504 and twitter ordering him to take it down (but not the quote??) https://twitter.com/KevinAllred/status/798925131288641536 https://twitter.com/KevinAllred/status/798925131288641536
- dwaltrip 10y agoIs there more to this story? I'm blown away. That's insane and very troubling. EDIT: It seems that the poster above may have left out some important details. According to an alleged screenshot linked below, the tweet actually said: "Will the 2nd amendment be as cool when I buy a gun start shooting at random white people?" This is not obviously just an abstract political point. It could understandably be interpreted as a direct threat.
- fmj 10y agohttps://twitter.com/Travesham/status/798941639909609472 https://twitter.com/Travesham/status/798941639909609472 Here are the since deleted tweets. I'll let you come to your own conclusions.
- pjc50 10y agoHow do we know those are the actual deleted tweets? (Now we have a truth problem don't we? I could be lying, the guy posting the screenshots could be lying, the original poster could be lying. Turtles all the way down) I mean, there's some MSM coverage of this which says essentially what I did: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/rutgers-professor-psych-eval-threatening-tweets-article-1.2875736 http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/rutgers-professor-psych-...
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- tdkl 10y agoSeems that anti-white slurs and calls for a president assassination are a-OK with Twitter though[1]. Hypocrisy much ? But considering who's the generous donator [2], I'm not even shocked. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXpi3F0E5ro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXpi3F0E5ro [2] http://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twitter-than-jack-dorsey-does/ http://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twit...