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Because all of their workers are coordinating these actions with one another. That also explains why most of the comments around these political issues have ton

Because all of their workers are coordinating these actions with one another. That also explains why most of the comments around these political issues have tons of absurd pro-censorship stances on places like HN. They're the same people.

rainyMammoth 6y ago
interestingly I have had private chats with some Silicon Valley tech workers lately that find those bans and censorship repulsive but are too afraid to state this publicly. I'm wondering if this is not the result of the ultra loud vocal minority once again?
- matz1 6y ago
  If that true then they kind a deserve it, when the majority didn't use their number as strength to do something but it then they deserve to lose.
  - busterarm 6y ago
    The problem is that the pro-censorship crowd is openly using the internal open communication channels with full support and engagement from both HR and upper management. Having numbers doesn't equate to having equal or greater power.
greatgirl 6y ago
Or... competition responds to other competition. If your competition fires 50 employees, you no longer have the pressure to keep an extra 50 employees just to compete with them. Same principle here, that's why all these bans are happening together.
casefields 6y ago
It's also because the old guard is no longer in control influential. The early internet was very libertarian, which included you're ACLU-left wing and right wing versions. Both of which hold free speech as one of our greatest strengths.
- MrMan 6y ago
  Libertarianism as I see it practiced by my rich friends and acquaintances is very much the corporate kind, and never the anarchic kind. This forum has been a place for corporate Libertarianism to flourish, and I have been here for a few years even though I am not the kind of user who gets alot of karma. I have never seen any very popular anarcho-libertarianism here, because it is not very profitable.

rainyMammoth 6y ago

interestingly I have had private chats with some Silicon Valley tech workers lately that find those bans and censorship repulsive but are too afraid to state this publicly. I'm wondering if this is not the result of the ultra loud vocal minority once again?

matz1 6y ago
If that true then they kind a deserve it, when the majority didn't use their number as strength to do something but it then they deserve to lose.
- busterarm 6y ago
  The problem is that the pro-censorship crowd is openly using the internal open communication channels with full support and engagement from both HR and upper management. Having numbers doesn't equate to having equal or greater power.

greatgirl 6y ago

Or... competition responds to other competition. If your competition fires 50 employees, you no longer have the pressure to keep an extra 50 employees just to compete with them. Same principle here, that's why all these bans are happening together.

casefields 6y ago

It's also because the old guard is no longer in control influential. The early internet was very libertarian, which included you're ACLU-left wing and right wing versions. Both of which hold free speech as one of our greatest strengths.

MrMan 6y ago
Libertarianism as I see it practiced by my rich friends and acquaintances is very much the corporate kind, and never the anarchic kind. This forum has been a place for corporate Libertarianism to flourish, and I have been here for a few years even though I am not the kind of user who gets alot of karma. I have never seen any very popular anarcho-libertarianism here, because it is not very profitable.