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by lesstenseflow 6y ago
It’s funny to think that the concept of a female only hotel like the Barbizon was a workable idea in 1900, but would be impossible to establish today in our 2020s political climate, certainly not in NYC. It would be possible to set up a co
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by lesstenseflow 6y ago
Why are comments about twitter's censorious nature being downvoted? The two main topics here (in my view) are 1. Twitter's response to Substack and how this move will impact the two companies and 2. the fact that some of Substack&
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by lesstenseflow 6y ago
I encourage you to familiarize yourself with this case before commenting that nobody should care about the subject being male. He went around booking bikini-waxing sessions (often in-home) from various women who provide this highly intimate
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by lesstenseflow 6y ago
> pretty narrow Not so for better or worse. Multiple people have been banned from Twitter for calling a human rights litigation troll (and Twitter troll) a man (he is male). https://nationalpost.com/news/free-speech-
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by lesstenseflow 6y ago
I agree. There are people on here seeming to argue that parler was booted “because of TOS violations” which they clearly were not. The winds changed direction and it became expedient to boot them, TOS rules don’t enter into the equation. Bu
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by lesstenseflow 6y ago
Parler did have moderation. What platform are you referring to here?
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by lesstenseflow 6y ago
There's a lot of space between "what violates the law" (or explicit ios/play store Terms of Use for that matter) and "what will get you kicked off twitter" and I believe Parler operated in that space. Users cou
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by lesstenseflow 6y ago
Respectfully, this is bullshit. As mentioned above, the question was about dollars, cents, and optics. Parler costs nothing to cut & there's little PR hit (probably a benefit), Cutting Facebook would cost the platforms money. The &
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by lesstenseflow 6y ago
Good point. My expected reaction isn't "laws/CoC should be discarded" but "CoCs and their enforcement process is seriously flawed and needs revising." Here there seem to be two issues: 1. Too-vague rules &
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by lesstenseflow 6y ago
> I was concerned that if only partial information became available, the anti-CoC crowd might jump on this as an example of problems with codes of conduct more generally, or might point at this as part of “cancel culture” (a concept I ve
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by lesstenseflow 6y ago
> To be anti-racist is to fundamentally understand the lived experiences of the Black community and how it relates to other structures of power. I thought “fundamentally understanding the lived experiences of the black community” was imp
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by lesstenseflow 6y ago
It’s really remarkable how much downvoting one gets if one says “SV tech company cultures are strongly left leaning.” This is such a widely known thing to anyone who’s worked in that environment that I’m surprised it’s controversial. Perhap
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by lesstenseflow 6y ago
> Hiring based on political beliefs, or in this case, presumed political beliefs, sounds like a dangerous road to go down. You don’t think this is happening already? I’m not sure what companies you’ve looked at but most big tech firms ha
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by lesstenseflow 7y ago
“The moon is made of cheese. Disagreeing with that causes me intense emotional distress so no ‘decent person’ would do so.” Are any views invalid?
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by lesstenseflow 7y ago
Why the moderator penalty? I ask because this is a case of someone being punished for discussing a topic (gender identity and the limits of one’s authority over the speech of others), and then it would seem discussion of the punishment is b
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by lesstenseflow 7y ago
Also from that article: > Cellio, for what it's worth, does not include any preferred pronouns on her Twitter account. Yet, when they refer to her, Stack Exchange puts pronouns next to her name, clearly against her own “preference
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by lesstenseflow 7y ago
Reading some of Monica’s commentary on this, it pains me to conclude that she doesn’t know just how bad the situation is. She appears to have approached the issue in question respectfully and highlighted her concerns diplomatically, and she