People keep saying this "ought to be concerning". What I see are mainstream commercial conveniences refusing to be complicit in spreading bigoted messages that have gotten people killed. Why am I meant to be surprised by that? If I ran a hosting provider I sure as shit wouldn't let that happen either.
We can all think of things we would ban if we ran hosting providers. We all know there's a line. Why are we pretending there isn't?
Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming
by logifail on Saturday November 03, 2018 @11:16AM
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>> spreading bigoted messages
"Bigoted messages"? Would that be content that's
* against the law
and/or
* against the upstream AUP/TOS
and/or
* "someone said something that offended someone else"
>> that have gotten people killed
Not wishing to pour more gasoline on the raging fire, but ... source?
"We don't want your sort on our platform because reasons" ought to be concerning at a much wider level (and not just to the sort that apparently aren't wanted on the platform).