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Cancel Culture is the physical manifestation of freedom of association and the effects of market forces on rational actors. People pretending to be L/libertari
by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
Cancel Culture is the physical manifestation of freedom of association and the effects of market forces on rational actors.
People pretending to be L/libertarians hate it.
If you don't want to lose your job maybe don't tweet shit?
What's worse than the fake libertarians "angwy" that rational actors tend to act rationally when associated with ideas they (or the market) find(s) abhorrent are the people who think tweets are "speech" that Twitter cannot arbitrarily control.
HN techbros tend to be more vocal than average about "speech" and "freedom" but are the first to report/hide/criticize, much like the fauxlibertarian stuffed shirts and billionaire-controlled free marketeer groups who keep suing social media sites for deleting their hateful and bigoted comments. Or DARING to not do business with them.
Thankfully judges actually understand rights and freedoms and have read more about them than what is contained within never-opened pocket constitution that techbros like to pretend to have read keep swatting them down in court like the losers they are.
Techbro: "Freedom!!!"
Corporate Board: "Ok, we're going to practice our freedom of association and disassociate from your bigoted ass. We like money and hate criticism."
Techbro: "No, not like that..... Only speech and guns. No association-- that doesn't count."
- 0_gravitas 6y ago> HN techbros tend to be more vocal than average about "speech" and "freedom" but are the first to report/hide/criticize, much like the fauxlibertarian stuffed shirts and billionaire-controlled free marketeer groups who keep suing social media sites for deleting their hateful and bigoted comments. Or DARING to not do business with them. ^ I'm pretty sure this post breaks a rule or two. This is not Facebook/Twitter, things are not so black and white. You can hold some libertarian values without being a caricature, likewise for any other value system.
- kilo_bravo_3 6y agoWhat rules? You can’t have rules with free speech, amirite? Just like collective groups of rationally acting rational actors CANNOT and MUST NOT have rules on how they associate or disassociate with other actors. At least, that’s what everyone downvoting pretends to believe. Or maybe I’m wrong and there are rules. And if you break them you get cancelled— as the market dictates. If this was a diatribe about how (minority group x) actually isn’t (straw man) and twitter deleted it every single one of you knuckleheads would be screaming FREE SPEECH FREE SPEECH END CANCEL CULTURE if Twitter admins hid it. Or is twitter free speech but HN comments not? For... reasons... C’mon, we both know this. Let the veil down just a little for once. Just pretend to not be hypocritical tar pits of fractured and faulty logic for five minutes. Maybe I should be more offensive so that people twist themselves into knots defending me, and then complain about rights and freedom while waving my pocket constitution when my comment gets deleted?
- 0_gravitas 6y agoAs I said, things are not so black and white. You clearly seem frustrated, but I don't think you're making the point you intend to be making.