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Personally, I think what these sites are doing now(dropping support for websites that distribute nazi propaganda) is the moral thing to do. However, I am bit w
by tpush 9y ago
Personally, I think what these sites are doing now(dropping support for websites that distribute nazi propaganda) is the moral thing to do.
However, I am bit worried that this seems to happen in response to social media shit storms and not because the people in charge of these companies actually just acquired a moral backbone.
Most of the people I subscribe to on Twitter are (American-) left leaning, and in the past when I saw similar shit storms happening (e.g. GamerGate, Milo Y. etc.) I always thought "Good! What these people are doing is awful, so they had it coming."
But the recent James Damore thing got me a bit worried. I wasn't fully on board on what was the dominant narrative on Twitter and the like, and was a bit horrified with what conviction I saw people who were espousing a different viewpoint were treated.
I guess I worry that corporations and people now bow so easily over social media pressure that in the future they could be easily pressured to do something that morally repugnant or some such.
Or maybe that's just how society has always been, and social media just exacerbates it.
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