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> Google should not have the power I can't help but notice the "they're a private company, so they can do whatever they want" folks that pop up whenever somebo

> Google should not have the power I can't help but notice the "they're a private company, so they can do whatever they want" folks that pop up whenever somebody's account gets banned for political views are strangely silent right now...

jgod 5y ago
They were cheering it on a week or two ago when it was against Russians. My favorite was when they were licking their lips and reaching ecstasy over Parler getting deplatformed but then throwing a tantrum like a week later when Terraria dev got banned by Google. Terraria guy and this guy simply need to build their own Google, Gmail, Play Store, and Android, easy! ;)
- rvz 5y ago
  > They were cheering it on a week or two ago when it was against Russians. Also celebrating that Google was ‘on their side’. Until they are not. > My favorite was when they were licking their lips and reaching ecstasy over Parler getting deplatformed but then throwing a tantrum like a week later when Terraria dev got banned by Google. That was my favorite one. Basically the chickens cheering on the wolves eating the other chickens that disagreed with them. Now the wolves are eating them as well and they are complaining why they are ‘not on their side’ anymore. They thought it could never happen to them. Just use the same ‘private platform’ logic towards them for everyone else that is getting banned after Parler and now they are all crying in the comments here. These companies are not on anyone’s side and these bans can happen to anyone on their platform. They won’t change.
- dymk 5y ago
  > They were cheering it on a week or two ago when it was against Russians. Tired of seeing people equate war crimes to Google screwing over some company.
  - jessaustin 5y ago
    Tired of people not complaining about war crimes in Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.
pyrale 5y ago
Maybe people getting banned from twitter for their political views is a bit different from people getting banned from their work means because the son of an ex-coworker abused youtube in some way?
- DoctorOW 5y ago
  This is the exact reason stuff like what Google is doing has gone unchallenged. Any attempt to say "Google needs to put more effort into avoiding false positives with content moderation" inevitably gets met with "Yes, I agree. The two of us both believe that I should be allowed to send death threats and dox random minorities without any criticism of my behavior."

jgod 5y ago

They were cheering it on a week or two ago when it was against Russians. My favorite was when they were licking their lips and reaching ecstasy over Parler getting deplatformed but then throwing a tantrum like a week later when Terraria dev got banned by Google. Terraria guy and this guy simply need to build their own Google, Gmail, Play Store, and Android, easy! ;)

rvz 5y ago
> They were cheering it on a week or two ago when it was against Russians. Also celebrating that Google was ‘on their side’. Until they are not. > My favorite was when they were licking their lips and reaching ecstasy over Parler getting deplatformed but then throwing a tantrum like a week later when Terraria dev got banned by Google. That was my favorite one. Basically the chickens cheering on the wolves eating the other chickens that disagreed with them. Now the wolves are eating them as well and they are complaining why they are ‘not on their side’ anymore. They thought it could never happen to them. Just use the same ‘private platform’ logic towards them for everyone else that is getting banned after Parler and now they are all crying in the comments here. These companies are not on anyone’s side and these bans can happen to anyone on their platform. They won’t change.
dymk 5y ago
> They were cheering it on a week or two ago when it was against Russians. Tired of seeing people equate war crimes to Google screwing over some company.
- jessaustin 5y ago
  Tired of people not complaining about war crimes in Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.

pyrale 5y ago

Maybe people getting banned from twitter for their political views is a bit different from people getting banned from their work means because the son of an ex-coworker abused youtube in some way?

DoctorOW 5y ago
This is the exact reason stuff like what Google is doing has gone unchallenged. Any attempt to say "Google needs to put more effort into avoiding false positives with content moderation" inevitably gets met with "Yes, I agree. The two of us both believe that I should be allowed to send death threats and dox random minorities without any criticism of my behavior."