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Contrasting Geocities or MySpace of decades past with coordinated bans from Facebook and Twitter in 2021 (not to mention AWS and Stripe) is knowingly disingenuo
by offby37years 6y ago
Contrasting Geocities or MySpace of decades past with coordinated bans from Facebook and Twitter in 2021 (not to mention AWS and Stripe) is knowingly disingenuous and not argued in good faith. Neither were communication monopolies.
- skynet-9000 6y agoNor were they destroying livelihoods and entire businesses across a broad swath of supposedly competing companies. The actions of today seem to have more in common with the union-busting blacklists across large companies of previous centuries. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist_(employment)#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist_(employment)#United_...)
- coderintherye 6y agoThe OP very specifically stated that this didn't happen in the 90s. Facebook and Twitter didn't exist in the 90s, Geocities and MySpace did. Thus why the examples are from that era.