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sickygnar | 5 years ago

Someone likely paid the platforms and/or admins to take them down

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dawnerd|5 years ago

Or an investor.

LMYahooTFY|5 years ago

What is your assertion based on?

TeMPOraL|5 years ago

I'm guessing: probability estimates. Realistically speaking, they had every opportunity to enact this ban before, and freedom to do so after the #gamestonk bonanza dies down. So why act now?

madeofpalk|5 years ago

Did you're read the article, and the statement Discord put out? I think the stated reason is the believable.

> Discord says it did not ban the server for financial fraud — rather, it was banned because it continued to allow “hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings.”

scarmig|5 years ago

I think at this point every single unpopular or questionable action made by an institution is going to go with a "it's to prevent hate/discrimination" justification. It's an easy way to get a credulous mob on your side; you can always nutpick random examples; and if someone argues against it they just prove they're one of the racists/whatever.

uoaei|5 years ago

Excuses like this have been leveraged for centuries to oust people who the Big Guys don't like.

Not saying it isn't true, but what I am saying is that it puts in stark relief all the servers they are NOT banning due to similar/worse behavior.

samatman|5 years ago

Hah.

How long are we going to keep falling for this same shtick?

Seriously, are you naïve or is this bad faith? I can't tell anymore.

unethical_ban|5 years ago

It is a shitty, disgusting and cowardly excuse, but I bet they're gonna go with "autist" and "retard" and etc. if they stick to that line.

bobthepanda|5 years ago

Yeah. I’m no fan of Wall Street but there is definitely a lot of rabid vitriol around, for example, Citron, and I really would not be surprised if people were stepping over the line and calling for violence.

luxuryballs|5 years ago

You can take almost any discord down for this, and they often do if it gets reported enough times. In this case it got enough attention so they enforced the rules.