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It’s just a website. The world spun before it and it will continue spinning after it.
by pb7 6y ago
It’s just a website. The world spun before it and it will continue spinning after it.
- mc32 6y agoYeah, it’s just a coffee shop, you can go buy your pastry elsewhere, the world won’t stop.
- pb7 6y agoYes... you can. Why are you acting like this can’t happen today? Any store can turn you away for any reason that isn’t a protected class.
- mc32 6y agoForeign governments are a protected class within the governmental community. Can Twitter ban members of protected classes if they don’t ban all members of a protected class, can the coffee shop do the same?
- gruez 6y agoThe same foreign governments that regularly get sanctioned? Doesn't seem very "protected" to me.
- mc32 6y agoRight, but it’s not Willy-nilly. There is a process and chain of command, etc. It’s not something someone in the state department wakes up and decides, eh, I don’t like what Castro said. Let’s sanction them now. No, they have to offer reasons and go through chain of command.
- gruez 6y agoYou seem to be conflating "protected" with "requiring diligence before action is taken". You simply can't fire someone for being in a protected class. No amount of "process and chain of command, etc" is going to change that. It's not like you can't be fired by a manager willy-nilly for being black, but if it goes all the way up to the CEO it's totally fine.
- pb7 6y agoTwitter is not part of the government so that is not relevant here (and I find that highly dubious to begin with). And no, you can’t ban one or every one of a protected class based specifically on that factor. You can still be banned for other reasons.
- anotherman554 6y agoYou are massively confused. All human beings on earth are members of protected classes. Furthermore, foreign governments are not a protected class. And being a member of a protected class doesn't mean you can't be banned for terms of service violations. You are just throwing legal sounding words together like a random word generator.
- whimsicalism 6y agoSocial media has lots of power. The choices they make have a big impact. Is that a controversial opinion?
- pb7 6y agoThese are just truisms so no, I wouldn’t say they’re controversial.
- whimsicalism 6y agoNo more of a truism than a statement about the continuity of Earth's rotation :)
- pb7 6y agoFair play. I didn't think the spinning was controversial either. ;)