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This sort of thing seems better on a personal blog than that of a company. As opposed to sounding like an enlightened defense of freedom of speech - there's ple

This sort of thing seems better on a personal blog than that of a company. As opposed to sounding like an enlightened defense of freedom of speech - there's plenty of capacity for doing that in professional writing[1] - it reads like that of someone with an axe to grind, who feels like their favored brand of politics is being tarnished unfairly and claiming victimhood. Engaging in such victimhood using the platform of your company's blog doesn't sit well with me. As the negative consequences of him writing this will almost certainly be negligible in relative terms for the company, it undermines his argument. If there's a real "cultural purge", we should expect EasyDNS to go bankrupt for defending groups alleged to be "white supremacist", "racist", and "Nazi". But I gather they won't be. I didn't hear of "#deleteshopify" until I read this post, and I expect I won't hear about it again. If you're reading this, future people, do me a favor and reply to this thread when #boycotteasydns has caused the company to fold. We can talk about "cultural purges" then. [1] - http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/01/26/chancellor-statement-on-yiannopoulos/ http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/01/26/chancellor-statement-on-...

Oxitendwe 10y ago
>If there's a real "cultural purge", we should expect EasyDNS to go bankrupt for defending groups alleged to be "white supremacist", "racist", and "Nazi". So, for his claim that there are often unpleasant consequences for being vocally on one side of the cultural divide to be true, they have to specifically happen to him? This is a ridiculous assertion, whether he is correct has absolutely nothing to do with whether he himself faces those consequences.
- AaronFriel 10y ago
  Fair point, I should weaken my claim. How do we define a "cultural purge"? I would suggest that for any definition we could agree on, we would agree that the purge the author supposes is not occurring. There are instances of boycotts succeeding - but those aren't "cultural purges", those are isolated incidents and by corollary to what you wrote, we should discount individual instances. It's the aggregate that matters, and the traffic to alt-right blogs and websites only seem to be growing. The "victimhood" of Breitbart (and other alt-right blogs) seems entirely manufactured. Ironically I think here the author again defeats his own claims. I'm not aware of peer-reviewed studies, but I gather from the disparate press reports and some nonprofit publications that anti-Semitic, racist, and white supremacist sites are on the rise. The author even points to the need to disallow such a site on their platform. Ample existence of the examples of such sites only lend credence to the belief that there is not a cultural purge going on! What a strange definition for the term "cultural purge" we would have if we could assert that it's occurring despite a surge in outspoken sentiment that is being "purged".
gremlinsinc 10y ago
'This sort of thing seems better on a personal blog than that of a company.' Right: next up is #boycotteasydns def. corporations and religious institutions need to butt out of American politics altogether. That includes donations to politicians, etc..
plorkyeran 10y ago
> I didn't hear of "#deleteshopify" until I read this post, and I expect I won't hear about it again. This was a rather amusing bit of irony. It's sort of meta to find out about a boycott from a post talking about how boycotts can backfire due to the Streisand effect.

Oxitendwe 10y ago

>If there's a real "cultural purge", we should expect EasyDNS to go bankrupt for defending groups alleged to be "white supremacist", "racist", and "Nazi". So, for his claim that there are often unpleasant consequences for being vocally on one side of the cultural divide to be true, they have to specifically happen to him? This is a ridiculous assertion, whether he is correct has absolutely nothing to do with whether he himself faces those consequences.

AaronFriel 10y ago
Fair point, I should weaken my claim. How do we define a "cultural purge"? I would suggest that for any definition we could agree on, we would agree that the purge the author supposes is not occurring. There are instances of boycotts succeeding - but those aren't "cultural purges", those are isolated incidents and by corollary to what you wrote, we should discount individual instances. It's the aggregate that matters, and the traffic to alt-right blogs and websites only seem to be growing. The "victimhood" of Breitbart (and other alt-right blogs) seems entirely manufactured. Ironically I think here the author again defeats his own claims. I'm not aware of peer-reviewed studies, but I gather from the disparate press reports and some nonprofit publications that anti-Semitic, racist, and white supremacist sites are on the rise. The author even points to the need to disallow such a site on their platform. Ample existence of the examples of such sites only lend credence to the belief that there is not a cultural purge going on! What a strange definition for the term "cultural purge" we would have if we could assert that it's occurring despite a surge in outspoken sentiment that is being "purged".

gremlinsinc 10y ago

'This sort of thing seems better on a personal blog than that of a company.' Right: next up is #boycotteasydns def. corporations and religious institutions need to butt out of American politics altogether. That includes donations to politicians, etc..

plorkyeran 10y ago

> I didn't hear of "#deleteshopify" until I read this post, and I expect I won't hear about it again. This was a rather amusing bit of irony. It's sort of meta to find out about a boycott from a post talking about how boycotts can backfire due to the Streisand effect.