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workingon | 3 years ago

what a world where someone thinks getting banned from facebook is oppression

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pessimizer|3 years ago

Yes. Imagine complaining about not being able to sit at a particular lunch counter, or getting the seat on the bus you want. I mean, dude, there are other seats and better places to eat. Why are you eating at diners anyway?

amanaplanacanal|3 years ago

We have always made a distinction between things that are not the fault of the individual (skin color, gender, ethnicity) and things that are (speech and actions). Which seems perfectly reasonable to me.

bluescrn|3 years ago

What about being banned from the entire banking system?

It might not have happened yet, but I suspect we're heading in that direction. We've seen 'speech related' bans from Paypal and crowdfunding sites.

Paypal even deplatformed the (UK-based) Free Speech Union (although they reverted that decision after the backlash)

remarkEon|3 years ago

When people with the wrong opinions (on who knows what, frankly, the list keeps changing) get banned from banking systems the very same people will be in the thread defending the sanctions and censorship action.

“Just build your own bank.” “Just build your own currency.”

CrazyPyroLinux|3 years ago

When it's at the behest of government, there's a word for that.