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You really can't figure it out? It's because today, and not a decade ago, the internet is the primary place for discourse. If you're banned from FB or Twitter,

You really can't figure it out? It's because today, and not a decade ago, the internet is the primary place for discourse. If you're banned from FB or Twitter, you're effectively banned from having a conversation. 10 years ago this wasn't the case -- only a minority of the population was using the internet as the primary place of discourse, and even then there was far greater stratification over various discussion boards. This issue has peaked because a few massive corporations have consolidated the internet discussion market share, and they now wield massive power because of it. People want that power to be limited.

Apocryphon 6y ago
It's strange to me because it feels like I've been seen articles about the topic for at least a decade, and people just shrugged their shoulders until the polarization from the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the subsequent culture wars, and deplatforming becoming a major tactic used in the culture wars, kicked it into overdrive. Pieces like this one [0] read so very quaint now. I suppose, just like social media's detrimental effects on mental health [1], these advance warnings were just collectively ignored by society- and the tech companies themselves- until very recently. Odd, that. [0] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/12/facebook-ban.html http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/12/facebook-... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=664351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=664351
tzs 6y ago
> If you're banned from FB or Twitter, you're effectively banned from having a conversation. You can still have conversations with ease by email, IM, phone, and on your own forums on a server you control (or non-electronically such as in person or by paper mail). What an FB or Twitter ban effectively takes away is broadcasting your material to a vast audience for free.

Apocryphon 6y ago

It's strange to me because it feels like I've been seen articles about the topic for at least a decade, and people just shrugged their shoulders until the polarization from the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the subsequent culture wars, and deplatforming becoming a major tactic used in the culture wars, kicked it into overdrive. Pieces like this one [0] read so very quaint now. I suppose, just like social media's detrimental effects on mental health [1], these advance warnings were just collectively ignored by society- and the tech companies themselves- until very recently. Odd, that. [0] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/12/facebook-ban.html http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/12/facebook-... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=664351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=664351

tzs 6y ago

> If you're banned from FB or Twitter, you're effectively banned from having a conversation. You can still have conversations with ease by email, IM, phone, and on your own forums on a server you control (or non-electronically such as in person or by paper mail). What an FB or Twitter ban effectively takes away is broadcasting your material to a vast audience for free.