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Followed by Patreon banning her the following day. It's getting pretty crazy how little one has to do to get deplatformed, if you've attracted an audience.
by gfosco 7y ago
Followed by Patreon banning her the following day. It's getting pretty crazy how little one has to do to get deplatformed, if you've attracted an audience.
- threeseed 7y agoPretty sure that her public record had a lot to do with it: https://twitter.com/sewernugget https://twitter.com/sewernugget
- rpiguy 7y agoIt is so easy to immediately take a side here, but I have never seen her content. It is true that people are being de-platformed unfairly and I am usually against deplatforming, but others do deserve it. Regardless, she's a kid. As much as I advocate for free speech, I believe we shouldn't encourage kids to be "shock-jocks" or used to promote political agendas. It is so easy for kids to be seduced into an ideology even if just for the attention.
- TylerE 7y agoThis isn't "a little".
- panarky 7y agoIt's easy to talk in broad generalities, but let's be specific. What, exactly, do you think people should have a platform to say, but are denied by YouTube and Patreon?
- spamizbad 7y agoCan't believe you're not allowed to threaten to murder people these days. Everyone's so sensitive!
- berbec 7y agoLiberal snowflakes getting the Deep State to censor Good People™ under orders from their military-industrial complex overlords.
- hannasanarion 7y agoYeah, seriously. People are so sensitive about murder threats these days, I mean come on. Back in my day, when you threatened to send a bomb to a tv station, they put you in a prime time slot!
- avip 7y agoThe girl is platformy-challenged, you shouldn't mock her for that.
- ilikehurdles 7y agoI was deservedly banned from chatting in World of Warcraft when I was 14 because I said some stupid shit, and the things I said weren't remotely comparable to this Soph kid. Sure, I'm glad my incident didn't get written about in The Hill, but do we really need to pretend that there is controversy every time a racist crossing over from 4chan gets an account banned on social media?
- JustSomeNobody 7y agoWhy do you feel a platform should allow someone to use it to threaten the life of someone else?
- Sohcahtoa82 7y agoSerious question here. Do you really think YouTube, Patreon, reddit, and whoever else should be required to allow people who make death threats to use their platform?
- cambalache 7y agoI know it was a rhetorical question but of course not. This a pretty clear cut case, if you break the law you while you are doing an activity, you deserve to be kicked out from any platform you use to promote your work. Threatening people should be taken very seriously.She should be thankful she embodies the right demographic so authorities were very lenient.
- Sohcahtoa82 7y agoIt really wasn't intended to be rhetorical question. I was hoping the parent commenter would answer the question, because the fact that he seems upset about Soph getting deplatformed indicates that he doesn't think that death threats should be grounds for deplatforming. I'm really hoping that what actually happened is that gfosco didn't read the article and is unaware about what Soph specifically said to get her kicked off YouTube and Patreon.
- rco8786 7y agoWait. What would one have to do to deserve being deplatformed, if death threats don’t meet the bar?