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I don't understand the lines that Patrick Collison, the CEO of Stripe, is trying to draw in this interview with Stratechery, https://stratechery.com/2021/interv
by dave_aiello 6y ago
I don't understand the lines that Patrick Collison, the CEO of Stripe, is trying to draw in this interview with Stratechery, https://stratechery.com/2021/interviews-with-patrick-collison-brad-smith-thomas-kurian-and-matthew-prince-on-moderation-in-infrastructure/#collison https://stratechery.com/2021/interviews-with-patrick-colliso....
I believe Collison's argument is that certain organizations affiliated with ex-President Trump should have been and were suspended from direct use of the Stripe API for "incitement to violence" in the time surrounding the certification of Electors by the U.S. Congress, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_St.... But other organizations that were allied in some way with Trump were still able to use the API. So in effect, the Trump-related organizations could use the API indirectly.
With that reasoning, shouldn't there also be organizations on the left in the United States, which is defined as the progressive / liberal / socialist part of the political spectrum, that should have received the same treatment during the period of the George Floyd Protests, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests?
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoYou’re expecting people to use the same standards for their ingroup as their outgroup. That rarely happens.
- dave_aiello 6y agoMaybe it's because I'm a sports official in my spare time, but I want the rules to be the same for everybody. It doesn't matter if they are written or not. I just want there to be a clear standard in most cases and rule enforcement to be reasonably consistent, in all aspects of life.