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A comment on A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming. Parent comment

Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming by pjc50 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @07:29AM (#18369717)
Gab's frog logo is not a coincidence. The network was created by people who believed they were being censored by the left.

> Many people pointed towards lgbt content being taken down and said: "Look, you guys brought this on yourselves."

Nah, LGBT content being taken down or deemed obscene despite not being explicit or pornographic is the default state of society and has only recently (past 20 years) been more permissive.

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Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming by ForHackernews on Saturday November 03, 2018 @12:16PM (#18370936)
> Nah, LGBT content being taken down or deemed obscene despite not being explicit or pornographic is the default state of society and has only recently (past 20 years) been more permissive.

This is true and you might think that recent history would give the left pause about calling for increased censorship, but that does not appear to be the case.

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