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Interestingly, this empowers people who hold beliefs so deviant that they're universally subject to sanction. They've already paid the reputation tax, and are

Interestingly, this empowers people who hold beliefs so deviant that they're universally subject to sanction. They've already paid the reputation tax, and are now free to use the technology to its maximum benefit, when in earlier times they'd have been outsiders in their community struggling to find like minded allies through creepy newsletters or pamphlets

slumdev 5y ago
This would be true if the penalty were only reputation damage. Instead, the penalty is censorship.
- wsinks 5y ago
  don't a lot of accounts get more reputation because they get banned? i've seen accounts literally have "banned at 75k followers" as a badge of honor