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Of course you're censoring them. You would also be censoring people if you ran an upscale restaurant with a dress code and standards of behavior, or if you did
by ben509 6y ago
Of course you're censoring them.
You would also be censoring people if you ran an upscale restaurant with a dress code and standards of behavior, or if you didn't let them post ads on the walls.
As long as you make your rules clear and enforce them fairly, censorship and standards of behavior are completely fine.
The very large social media platforms all market themselves as being neutral. They got to be the largest by providing a space for everyone.
So the ask here is "please enforce the rules fairly the way you have always promised you would." Asking a business to deliver on the promises they've made and continue to make is not an entitled attitude.
After all, all these businesses are in complete control of what they promise. If they don't like the old promise, they have a first amendment right to make a new promise that suits them better.
- Jonnax 6y agoDiscord doesn't market themselves as being neutral and they have community guidelines: https://discord.com/guidelines https://discord.com/guidelines
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoAnyone has community guidelines, i could write on my wall with a crayon "we get pissed at the pub on tuesday' and call that community guideline. It does not convey moral rights or place you above criticism What is that statement meant to convey?
- Jonnax 6y agoI think you're confused. Their community guidelines are part of their terms of service. You can write whatever on your wall, it's your home, your community. If you want to use their service you have to follow their rules. Turns out that Discord doesn't like people using the terms "Retard" and "Autist" in a disparaging way. They don't want that kind of discourse to be part of their community. In the same way, I'm guessing that you're not going get far on this forum calling people "retards" If you want to have your own community where you want to have that kind of discourse, you can self host a forum. Instead of Discord consider IRC, it's an open standard, and anyone can host a server. You don't need AWS, you just need an internet connection. You just need to find a hosting provider that's willing to host it. Of which there are plenty.
- ClumsyPilot 6y ago"Turns out that Discord doesn't like people using the terms "Retard" and "Autist" in a disparaging way." I dont think you have any proof of that - it's not actually written clearly in their term of service what level of calling each other names is allowed. Considering that people were calling each-other retards on Discord for years, any judge would conclude that they are happy with this behaviour. On the other hand, timing of these bans are very suspicious, maybe they recieved a phonecall and banned the community under false pretences. I really hope we can subponea some documents and find out if this is coming from corruption or cosmic coincedence