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Do you think that is why they banned him?
by Grustaf 6y ago
Do you think that is why they banned him?
- ceejayoz 6y agoNo, I think it's funny for Ron Paul to be complaining Facebook did the exact thing he said businesses should be able to do.
- salawat 6y agoHe's not complaining Facebook did exactly what he championed they had a right to do. The complaint is that they could not point out how he had breached terms of service/community guidelines as he was notified his account was terminated because of. If they could poiint to the offending material that would be one thing. If they gave advanced warning and said "Pack your stuff, we're done serving you. Period. You have X hours." It would have been fine. Saying someone did X, Y, and Z, then refusing to produce evidence is the problem there.
- Grustaf 6y agoI don’t care about his feelings, hypocritical or not. I’m alarmed when they start censoring people without even pretending they’re remotely dangerous. He simply has the wrong politics and is too popular.
- heyoni 6y agoThis isn’t censorship. If the US wants a free and public Twitter like platform, they can spin up their own instance of Mastodon or write their own.
- Grustaf 6y agoOf course it’s censorship, it just isn’t carried out by the state. But when private companies have more control over media, private censorship is just as bad.
- heyoni 6y agoYou have no one but the politicians to blame for handing over infrastructures over to private companies and yourself for allowing them to be voted in.
- Steltek 6y agoHaving the right to take an action is different from executing on that action. You have the right to paint your house polka dot pink but everyone is still going to think it was the wrong choice.