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I believe deplatforming is sometimes worth it (e.g. child porn, presidential candidates incorrectly claiming they won an election on election night). I personal

• thu2111 6y ago
  Until the cloud or datacenter operator makes the same call. Or the ISP. Or the software provider. Or the Chrome team. This trend is bad because it's a declaration of open warfare by leftists on anyone who disagrees with them. The notion of persuading people with better arguments is dead to them; they'd rather win by foul means than fair. And sadly too many people here cheer them on, or shrug and say, well, technically nothing stops them. But it's a stale, pale argument. Technically the Chinese government are well within their rights to put their citizens behind their firewall, suppress all free speech within their territory and do many other bad things. It's just one country amongst many after all. People can leave. Nonetheless it's right and proper to criticise them for doing so because that sort of behaviour is morally wrong.