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Facebook Just Forced Its Most Powerful Critics Offline(vice.com)
44 points by iron0013 6y ago|11 comments
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by iron0013 6y ago
Because I read the article, I know that the guy who got fired did not merely post on 4chan, but actually created his own Q-related website devoted to pushing the violent, treasonous, slanderous conspiracy theory into the mainstream. I enjoy
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by iron0013 6y ago
Yup
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by iron0013 6y ago
You absolutely still can be fired in the United States for publicly identifying as a communist. Hell, you can be fired for merely demonstrating against police brutality.
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by iron0013 6y ago
Union organizers and whistleblowers should and in many cases already do have protections specifically encoded into law. Far-out political cults that routinely slander and threaten violence against their opponents do not serve a particular p
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by iron0013 6y ago
Violent treasonous political cults do not currently constitute a protected class, oddly enough.
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by iron0013 6y ago
Yeah, I can see a lot of propaganda-vulnerable grandparents figuring out how to set up a Mastadon account. “Is that on the googles?”
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by iron0013 6y ago
Great news. Adherents to this conspiracy theory have committed domestic terrorism in the past. Hopefully this action will help prevent future tragedies, as deplatforming has repeatedly been shown to be effective.
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by iron0013 6y ago
Great news. Deplatforming works, and will hopefully help defuse this group of potential domestic terrorists.
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Facebook bans QAnon across all its platforms(axios.com)
14 points by iron0013 6y ago|2 comments
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by iron0013 6y ago
How is it possible to miss the point this hard? The website was specifically designed to teach people not to make the mistake in understanding that you are making.
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Twitter accused of double standards over ban on tweets wishing death on Trump(theguardian.com)
38 points by iron0013 6y ago|12 comments
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“The squad” responds to Twitter warning for posts threatening bodily harm(thehill.com)
5 points by iron0013 6y ago|0 comments
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by iron0013 6y ago
So much for that iron-clad commitment to free speech that prevented Twitter from banning the many, many people who wished and threatened death upon other users and public figures until now. What changed?
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Twitter Says You Cannot Tweet That You Hope Trump Dies from Covid(vice.com)
4 points by iron0013 6y ago|4 comments
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by iron0013 6y ago
The barely concealed subtext here seems to be that this is not at all about monopolies, and is really about forcing Google to return search results favorable to conservative politicians and ideologies.
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by iron0013 6y ago
In the United States, most public spaces are streets or surrounded by streets. This law would make it nearly impossible for protestors to exercise their first amendment rights. Step one foot outside of the park in which you were protesting?
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by iron0013 6y ago
The police have not been defunded in either Minneapolis or NYC. They have decided—while fully funded—to stop doing their jobs to punish the cities that tried to hold them accountable for their abuses.
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by iron0013 6y ago
I would like to hear the arguments of anyone who thinks this is not both illegal and fascistic
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by iron0013 6y ago
How is this different from silencing employee objections to unethical corporate practices? It’s not merely “talking politics at work” to point out that, for example, your company’s practices are helping a political party steal an election.
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by iron0013 6y ago
Almost every comment in this thread seems to be some variation of either “So what if a lot of jews died—a lot of other people died in the holocaust too ya know!”, or “So what if a lot of people died in the Holocaust—a lot of people died in
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by iron0013 6y ago
Why is this obviously false conspiracy theory being spammed so hard on HN today?
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by iron0013 6y ago
This is not a dupe.
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by iron0013 6y ago
A tempest in a teapot. Nothing has happened to this man, yet he plays the victim card over and over again.
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by iron0013 6y ago
I would like to see a link to this hit job, please.
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Going Postal –- A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive(bookforum.com)
2 points by iron0013 6y ago|0 comments
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by iron0013 6y ago
Well, yes, of course, it’s Charles Murray. He shares many of the beliefs of those groups.
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by iron0013 6y ago
The actual title of this article is “The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down for no good reason“. The second half of that title, which you removed, is the entire point of the article. Altering that title does not make it mor
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by iron0013 6y ago
It sounds like you’re saying you’re fine with users doing things like creating unlimited sock puppet accounts and engaging in vote manipulation (which is what the troll farms you’re describing as SSMs have been accused of doing)? I’m genuin
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by iron0013 6y ago
All those hundreds of billions of dollars and they apparently haven’t used any of it to update their IT infrastructure. As a taxpayer, my first thought is: well where did all that money go? The pockets of unaccountable defense industry exec

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