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Because the narrative employs obvious bias only partially grounded in reality. The title implies that these people needed a safe space to protect themselves fro

by ng12 10y ago

Because the narrative employs obvious bias only partially grounded in reality. The title implies that these people needed a safe space to protect themselves from dissenting opinion -- when the simple reality is Twitter kicked them out so they started using a different website. Yes, all news is biased but increasingly I'm finding the NYT to be completely out of touch. It's very obvious there's a story they want to push and so they find news that they can make fit the story.

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oxide 10y ago
from elsewhere in this thread: >On the Friday after the US presidential election, Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.ai, a social network favored by conservatives, was kicked out of Y Combinator “I am actually surprised it took them this long to excommunicate me,” Torba told BuzzFeed News. “Y Combinator doesn’t accept conservatives and they don’t accept Trump supporters.” this is relevant here because of what this dude was actually doing, being a prick. > In the Facebook thread, before he was booted from Y Combinator, Torba wrote: “All of you: fuck off. Take your morally superior, elitist, virtue signaling bullshit and shove it. I call it like I see it, and I helped meme a President into office, cucks.” it took me a long time to learn that you don't have the right to be a prick on the internet. if you insist on being a prick, don't cry persecution when you get shown the door. don't cry censorship. it's neither. it's you being shown the door because you wanted to be a prick. full stop. if the guy in the above example wasn't a prick, he'd still be in the program. he could have called people cucks with donations like the big boys do, and not on facebook like a child.
- omonra 10y ago
  How does this in any way negate the comment you are responding to? His point is that people go to Gab because they are thrown out of other venues. You're just going on about how they deserve to be thrown out.
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  - oxide 10y ago
    >His point is that people go to Gab because they are thrown out of other venues my point is that they aren't being thrown out because of their political views. the guy in the above example wasn't purged because he was a conservative. it's a shock, I know, but consider the fact that he was shown the door because he was an asshole.
    - gremlinsinc 10y ago
      Aren't those two words synonymous? lol
    - omonra 10y ago
      Fair enough. But people did experiments like http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/twitter-user-replaces-white-black-gets-banned http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/twitter-user-replaces-white-... that show how same speech applied from opposite angles produces different results vis-a-vis being banned.
      - baldfat 10y ago
        NO! Get out! That context and subject actually matter? NO WAY. /sarcasm

by ng12 10y ago

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oxide 10y ago

from elsewhere in this thread: >On the Friday after the US presidential election, Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.ai, a social network favored by conservatives, was kicked out of Y Combinator “I am actually surprised it took them this long to excommunicate me,” Torba told BuzzFeed News. “Y Combinator doesn’t accept conservatives and they don’t accept Trump supporters.” this is relevant here because of what this dude was actually doing, being a prick. > In the Facebook thread, before he was booted from Y Combinator, Torba wrote: “All of you: fuck off. Take your morally superior, elitist, virtue signaling bullshit and shove it. I call it like I see it, and I helped meme a President into office, cucks.” it took me a long time to learn that you don't have the right to be a prick on the internet. if you insist on being a prick, don't cry persecution when you get shown the door. don't cry censorship. it's neither. it's you being shown the door because you wanted to be a prick. full stop. if the guy in the above example wasn't a prick, he'd still be in the program. he could have called people cucks with donations like the big boys do, and not on facebook like a child.

omonra 10y ago
How does this in any way negate the comment you are responding to? His point is that people go to Gab because they are thrown out of other venues. You're just going on about how they deserve to be thrown out.
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- oxide 10y ago
  >His point is that people go to Gab because they are thrown out of other venues my point is that they aren't being thrown out because of their political views. the guy in the above example wasn't purged because he was a conservative. it's a shock, I know, but consider the fact that he was shown the door because he was an asshole.
  - gremlinsinc 10y ago
    Aren't those two words synonymous? lol
  - omonra 10y ago
    Fair enough. But people did experiments like http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/twitter-user-replaces-white-black-gets-banned http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/twitter-user-replaces-white-... that show how same speech applied from opposite angles produces different results vis-a-vis being banned.
    - baldfat 10y ago
      NO! Get out! That context and subject actually matter? NO WAY. /sarcasm