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Did they? The article is suspiciously silent on what, if anything, might have triggered bans and Medium themselves refuse to say. I went and found a cached cop

Did they? The article is suspiciously silent on what, if anything, might have triggered bans and Medium themselves refuse to say. I went and found a cached copy of the "How I'd run for Congress" article it talks about: http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=How+I+Would+Run+for+Congress+cernovich&d=5011034540282539&mkt=en-GB&setlang=en-GB&w=Y5hW9Mb889nmwWWUCp8GzIUcirRxW8qI http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=How+I+Would+Run+for+Congres... Looks fine to me. But it sounds like it's time to stop using Medium. Updating their ToS to say that they can pull your content at will, for no reason beyond someone there not liking something you did or said that isn't even on their platform? Like, it could literally be something said in person that was overheard by someone who works there. A blog is a long term thing, it's not a set of tweets. The content should last for years. Medium have clearly gone full blown Valley SJW and the people who thought freedom of speech mattered have either been shouted down or changed. Who knows what Medium considers to be "disinformation"? Anything that criticizes Hillary Clinton?

Consultant32452 9y ago
I'm curious about your thoughts on those Loomer quotes. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laura_Loomer https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laura_Loomer I personally have a hard time faulting a private platform for not wanting to promote ideas like racial segregation in taxi services. I was going to say religious segregation, but I can't imagine how she was able to discern someone's religion by their Uber/Lyft profile.
- peoplewindow 9y ago
  I'm sure she has a bunch of ideas that offend lots of people. Seems like a distraction. Yes, obviously Medium can do a bait-and-switch in which they attract people by claiming to value free speech and then abandoning those ideals after people have built up followers and PageRank using their service. They can do what they like. However, the problem with picking sides like this, as Medium and Twitter are doing, is that it inevitably leads to gross and shameful hypocrisy. Just based on a quick search, here are some shockingly hateful quotes that quite obviously violate their new policies, but which I don't believe for one second will lead to account bans: https://medium.com/the-archipelago/men-get-on-board-with-misandry-4a3bc6c08e16 https://medium.com/the-archipelago/men-get-on-board-with-mis... I drink from a coffee mug that says “Male Tears.” Female friends sign off emails to me with “ban men” or “kill all men.” But let’s be honest: the more time you spend thinking about the patriarchy, the more you’re genuinely like UGH DUDES AMIRITE. Because the thing is, patriarchal culture actively trains men to be awful I do think the concept of “manliness” needs to be taken out and shot. It goes on and on like that. Clearly, anything Loomer has said about Muslims is matched by anything Jess Zimmerman has said about men.
  - Consultant32452 9y ago
    I'm happy to get on board with you regarding pointing out the shameful hypocrisy. I'm less cynical about the apparent bait and switch, it seems to me that a lot of people were either naive about the realities of running an "open" platform, and/or are just caught up in this new age of hysteria. It seems like almost everyone has lost the concept of nuance.
  - pvg 9y ago
    Clearly, anything Loomer has said about Muslims is matched by anything Jess Zimmerman has said about men. No, because one of these things is deliberately ironic, as it says repeatedly throughout the thing you linked and quoted. How did you miss that detail?
    - peoplewindow 9y ago
      I do not believe it's ironic. Yes, after stating repeatedly how much she hates men and manliness she says words to the effect of, "oh guyzzz I don't REALLY want to kill you all! Chill out!" and then goes back to hateful rhetoric. At any rate, that particular article is just one example I used to illustrate my point. Do you really believe Medium's moderation will be completely fair and politically unbiased, given their new policy? I would find it quite naive.
actsasbuffoon 9y ago
I think you may have misinterpreted their statement about the "How I Would Run for Congress" article. I think they were praising that as an example of the sort of article they want to have on their service. Note the fact that the referred to the removal of that specific article as "unfortunate."

Consultant32452 9y ago

I'm curious about your thoughts on those Loomer quotes. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laura_Loomer https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laura_Loomer I personally have a hard time faulting a private platform for not wanting to promote ideas like racial segregation in taxi services. I was going to say religious segregation, but I can't imagine how she was able to discern someone's religion by their Uber/Lyft profile.

peoplewindow 9y ago
I'm sure she has a bunch of ideas that offend lots of people. Seems like a distraction. Yes, obviously Medium can do a bait-and-switch in which they attract people by claiming to value free speech and then abandoning those ideals after people have built up followers and PageRank using their service. They can do what they like. However, the problem with picking sides like this, as Medium and Twitter are doing, is that it inevitably leads to gross and shameful hypocrisy. Just based on a quick search, here are some shockingly hateful quotes that quite obviously violate their new policies, but which I don't believe for one second will lead to account bans: https://medium.com/the-archipelago/men-get-on-board-with-misandry-4a3bc6c08e16 https://medium.com/the-archipelago/men-get-on-board-with-mis... I drink from a coffee mug that says “Male Tears.” Female friends sign off emails to me with “ban men” or “kill all men.” But let’s be honest: the more time you spend thinking about the patriarchy, the more you’re genuinely like UGH DUDES AMIRITE. Because the thing is, patriarchal culture actively trains men to be awful I do think the concept of “manliness” needs to be taken out and shot. It goes on and on like that. Clearly, anything Loomer has said about Muslims is matched by anything Jess Zimmerman has said about men.
- Consultant32452 9y ago
  I'm happy to get on board with you regarding pointing out the shameful hypocrisy. I'm less cynical about the apparent bait and switch, it seems to me that a lot of people were either naive about the realities of running an "open" platform, and/or are just caught up in this new age of hysteria. It seems like almost everyone has lost the concept of nuance.
- pvg 9y ago
  Clearly, anything Loomer has said about Muslims is matched by anything Jess Zimmerman has said about men. No, because one of these things is deliberately ironic, as it says repeatedly throughout the thing you linked and quoted. How did you miss that detail?
  - peoplewindow 9y ago
    I do not believe it's ironic. Yes, after stating repeatedly how much she hates men and manliness she says words to the effect of, "oh guyzzz I don't REALLY want to kill you all! Chill out!" and then goes back to hateful rhetoric. At any rate, that particular article is just one example I used to illustrate my point. Do you really believe Medium's moderation will be completely fair and politically unbiased, given their new policy? I would find it quite naive.

actsasbuffoon 9y ago

I think you may have misinterpreted their statement about the "How I Would Run for Congress" article. I think they were praising that as an example of the sort of article they want to have on their service. Note the fact that the referred to the removal of that specific article as "unfortunate."