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Discord banned WallStreetBets for violent calls to actions. Thet is hugely different from Google removing bad reviews wholesale, with no apparent effort to dist
by Zigurd 6y ago
Discord banned WallStreetBets for violent calls to actions. Thet is hugely different from Google removing bad reviews wholesale, with no apparent effort to distinguish genuine reviews by actual users from spam. Actions by zero-cost trading platforms are the most problematic because they favor data customers over end-users in a way that materially damages end-users.
Not every restraint on speech is censorship or venal commercial interest. And some of what was done is going to cause platforms like RH to deservedly get into considerable regulatory and reputational trouble.
- will_pseudonym 6y agoAnyone could join that Discord server. Discord is incredibly difficult to moderate at scale, and they had banned every bad word that they didn't want the chat to be about. People joined and posted bad words in Unicode that the bots didn't catch, and people can screenshot them instantly.
- mythrwy 6y agoAlmost every platform with a meaningful user base is going to have "violent calls to action" depending on how it is framed. Most especially those with slow/poor moderation. I'm guessing "violent calls to action" on first person shooter game channels received much less attention. Particularly given the timing of this reaction to "violent calls for action".
- mensetmanusman 6y agoWhat if it is false flag posts though? That’s what’s done now on youtube when people want to shut down their competitors.