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You say that now, but if the political winds change in future and progressive ideals and orgs are then labeled "hate speech", promoting violence, I suspect ther
by gedy 6y ago
You say that now, but if the political winds change in future and progressive ideals and orgs are then labeled "hate speech", promoting violence, I suspect there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
- piva00 6y agoIf liberal ideals of fairness, equality and so on become considered "hate speech" I believe that the society suffering through that will have much bigger problems to tackle than companies' censorship. Both sides are not the same.
- gedy 6y agoI'm speaking about many of the activist orgs and tactics, BLM, etc
- typenil 6y agoTalking as if this didn’t already happen in the McCarthy era. What good company to be in. Same tactics, different ideals. Just as wrong. Just as convinced you’re right.
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- cambalache 6y agoYou are more part of the problem than you could ever imagine.
- piva00 6y agoExplain how, this is not reddit, either you contribute to the discussion or it's better not to post anything.
- cambalache 6y agoBecause you dont care about the substance of the argument or its logical conclusions, you only care about the political points in the current environment. If tomorrow Facebook, Twitter and Google decide to ban all criticism, of Zuckeberg,Dorsey or Brin calling it "hate speech", the problem will be EXACTLY the same: corporations censoring things, nothing else. I do not like when they do it to Alex Jones not because I like him but because I dont like the precedent to be set for other more valuable sources in the future. But the mechanism is exactly the same, if you dont defend "the untouchables" now, dont expect people to defend "your team" in the future.
- ashtonkem 6y agoPayPal isn’t cutting them off because of who they host, they’re cutting them off because they’re selling a cryptocurrency and couldn’t meet AML regulations. It’s very frustrating how many people here are falling into the trap of fighting out this culture war issue when it doesn’t seem to be supported by the facts in the article.
- ufmace 6y agoThis. I wonder if dang can change the title to be less misleading? I was already suspicious why a hosting company needs a relationship with Paypal.
- metamet 6y agoUm. That is exactly what has been happening with the rhetoric around otherizing anything in opposition to Trump. The President of the United States has called for this himself, which should be a bigger alarm bell than a corporation enacting a policy.