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When a message board or user is kicked off a platform, it's never for "saying the wrong thing" or "political correctness". It's generally because they organize
by fallingfrog 4y ago
When a message board or user is kicked off a platform, it's never for "saying the wrong thing" or "political correctness". It's generally because they organized targeted campaigns of harassment, doxxing, swatting, and other kinds of behavior that violated the terms of service.
Take this example:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/cloudflare-kiwi-farms-keffals-anti-trans-rcna44834 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/cloudflare-kiwi-farms-...
"At least three people have died by suicide after becoming targets of Kiwi Farms harassment campaigns, according to Vice. In 2016, the family of a trans person who died by suicide, Lizzy Waite, was harassed by Kiwi Farms trolls for weeks after her death. She had posted a suicide note on Facebook."
"Sorrenti, known to fans of her streaming channel as “Keffals,” says that when her front door opened on Aug. 5 the first thing she saw was a police officer’s gun pointed at her face. It was just the beginning of a weekslong campaign of stalking, threats and violence against Sorrenti that ended up making her flee the country."
When we talk about violent forms of speech, this is what we mean. Actual crimes.
Note that this website was, in the end, taken down. But the users have moved on to other spaces where they organize harassment campaigns, such as Libs of Tiktok.
- ejb999 4y ago>>When a message board or user is kicked off a platform, it's never for "saying the wrong thing" or "political correctness". That is not what I have seen - what about all the MDs and scientists that warned about possible side-effects of the vaccine, but since their opinions were not approved by the government, were kicked off twitter/facebook etc? How about the NYPost being de-platformed for reporting on the hunter biden laptop story? a story which has now been admitted to being true?
- kneebonian 4y agoI was recently suspended from a platform for "hate speechd when I brought up the Pakistani rape gangs that were operating in the UK. It turns out hate speech means speech somebody hates.
- commandlinefan 4y ago> it's never for "saying the wrong thing" or "political correctness" My reddit account was permanently suspended for upvoting vaccine skepticism.
- trieste92 4y ago> When we talk about violent forms of speech, this is what we mean. Actual crimes. If we're talking about actual crimes getting prosecuted, then what's the issue here? All I see is the law doing it's job Somebody got swatted. Ok. We're talking about speech here, not swatting
- yescaramba 4y ago[flagged]