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"You may not enter" is the literal definition of banning someone
by fazfq 4y ago
"You may not enter" is the literal definition of banning someone
- paulmd 4y agoIf you can come back by removing the offending element, you aren't really banned. "No offensive t-shirts" is not the same thing as being banned lol
- unsupp0rted 4y agoIf the offending element is one's personality or one's beliefs, then yes, one can come back by removing that, but it's the same thing as not coming back.
- joshuamorton 4y ago"You cannot believe in Christianity" and "You cannot hold mass in my house" are two very different statements.
- mwint 4y agoHow about if AT&T said “you cannot pray over our telephone lines”? Because that seems closer to what’s happening here.
- ilyt 4y agoTwitter have almost 400 million users. It's not "your house" at this point, it's public space.
- joshuamorton 4y agoSo at what number of attendees does my house become public space?
- encryptluks2 4y agoNever because you own it and have rights just like the Supreme Court has established that most private businesses has the right to kick people out. If people don't like that then they should petition the government to take over Twitter and make it a utility or government service.
- jonny_eh 4y agoRemoving a tweet and removing a belief are two very different things.
- unsupp0rted 4y agoNot really: we see on Reddit all the time how subreddits quickly descend into herds that can only upvote accepted ideas and instantly downvote to oblivion or ban anything even neutral (much less antagonistic to the subreddit’s worldview). Anybody who comes by with a different take immediately loses interest in the group and so there’s a self-perpetuating system that makes the group more and more fanatical about right-think and wrong-think. On Twitter, deleting tweets for wrong-think has largely the same chilling effect and self-perpetuating descent into an echo chamber.
- jonny_eh 4y ago"deleting tweets for wrong-think" When did this happen? Are you referring to tweets that promote anti-semetism like Ye's? Or to tweets advocating for political violence, like Trump's?
- mwint 4y agoSee: Basically everyone who was suggesting the Wuhan virology lab was a plausible source for a virus originating in Wuhan.
- themitigating 4y agoYou're not removing your belief
- freejazz 4y agoNo shirt, no shoes, no service.