Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @03:08PM
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> On the one hand, Patreon shouldn't have to do business with people they don't like. On the other hand, at what point do we accept that we have different viewpoints and live and let live?
Why are those different hands? I can accept that you have a different viewpoint, and that you should be free to express it and people should be free to do business with you, without myself choosing to do business with you. That is, accepting Patreon’s action here is a model of accepting different viewpoints with a live-and-let-live attitude, not an opposed alternative to it.
> To me, personally and anecdotally, this seems to be happening with increasing velocity.
It's not, it's just now sometimes biting the right-wing ideologies that historically have for decades directed private and public censorship in every institution of American life (and whose values are still codified in many systems of private and public censorship), so it actually stands out from the expected background more.
Why are those different hands? I can accept that you have a different viewpoint, and that you should be free to express it and people should be free to do business with you, without myself choosing to do business with you. That is, accepting Patreon’s action here is a model of accepting different viewpoints with a live-and-let-live attitude, not an opposed alternative to it.
> To me, personally and anecdotally, this seems to be happening with increasing velocity.
It's not, it's just now sometimes biting the right-wing ideologies that historically have for decades directed private and public censorship in every institution of American life (and whose values are still codified in many systems of private and public censorship), so it actually stands out from the expected background more.