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Yes. But we saw how quickly censorship went from Alex Jones being banned from having a Twitter,Reddit, Twitch, Mailchimp, Shopify, YouTube/Google, Facebook/Inst

Yes. But we saw how quickly censorship went from Alex Jones being banned from having a Twitter,Reddit, Twitch, Mailchimp, Shopify, YouTube/Google, Facebook/Instagram account, and being banned from all those platforms simultaneously. To having Donald Trump the Republican Nominee and at the time sitting duck President having his Twitter, Reddit, Twitch, Mailchimp, Shopify, YouTube/Google, Facebook/Instagram account being banned simultaneously. Starting off with "we want to stop Nazi propaganda" turning into banning Republicans is like saying "We want to stop Communist Propaganda" and Blacklisting Liberals

heavyset_go 3y ago
Were Jones and Trump banned for being Republicans or were they banned as a consequence of their own actions?
- pauldenton 3y ago
  Trump represents Republicans. Literally. It's representative democracy. The point is not Alex Jones is a republican, just that it's a not many months between Alex Jones being deplatformed who was by all definitions fringe to the representative in our representative democracy being deplatformed and alienating half the country. Trump has over 90% approval rating among Republicans.
  - heavyset_go 3y ago
    It's interesting how this went from "they're banning people for being Republicans!" to "no one can be banned for anything if they're Republicans." Sounds like you want special treatment for Republicans, yet are paranoid that others might do the same thing.
  - moomin 3y ago
    I mean, if you think that 90% of Republicans are traitors to US democracy, you've just made a great case for deplatforming them, irrespective of how many there are, but I think you were arguing against that?
    - pauldenton 3y ago
      If you treat 90% of Republicans like traitors, don't be surprised when they treat 90% of Democrats like traitors. Shoe's going to be on the other foot eventually.
      - moomin 3y ago
        You see, this is the problem, you think the solution to the rule of law not going your way is to… rip up the rule of law. I don’t think your problem is with Democrats, or social media companies, really, it’s with objective reality. And I didn’t say they were traitors, you did.
  - wredue 3y ago
    >Trump represents republicans Maybe don’t have racist genocidal stances then? Trump wasn’t banned for being a republican. He was banned, ultimately, for Jan 6. In reality, Trump broke all those platforms rules on several occasions and was given a free pass till he tried to steal an election. He’s actually the poster boy for the fact that republicans get MORE leeway on social platforms, not less.
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heavyset_go 3y ago

Were Jones and Trump banned for being Republicans or were they banned as a consequence of their own actions?

pauldenton 3y ago
Trump represents Republicans. Literally. It's representative democracy. The point is not Alex Jones is a republican, just that it's a not many months between Alex Jones being deplatformed who was by all definitions fringe to the representative in our representative democracy being deplatformed and alienating half the country. Trump has over 90% approval rating among Republicans.
- heavyset_go 3y ago
  It's interesting how this went from "they're banning people for being Republicans!" to "no one can be banned for anything if they're Republicans." Sounds like you want special treatment for Republicans, yet are paranoid that others might do the same thing.
- moomin 3y ago
  I mean, if you think that 90% of Republicans are traitors to US democracy, you've just made a great case for deplatforming them, irrespective of how many there are, but I think you were arguing against that?
  - pauldenton 3y ago
    If you treat 90% of Republicans like traitors, don't be surprised when they treat 90% of Democrats like traitors. Shoe's going to be on the other foot eventually.
    - moomin 3y ago
      You see, this is the problem, you think the solution to the rule of law not going your way is to… rip up the rule of law. I don’t think your problem is with Democrats, or social media companies, really, it’s with objective reality. And I didn’t say they were traitors, you did.
- wredue 3y ago
  >Trump represents republicans Maybe don’t have racist genocidal stances then? Trump wasn’t banned for being a republican. He was banned, ultimately, for Jan 6. In reality, Trump broke all those platforms rules on several occasions and was given a free pass till he tried to steal an election. He’s actually the poster boy for the fact that republicans get MORE leeway on social platforms, not less.

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