Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re...
by darkpuma on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @04:30PM
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As I recall Hacker News also had a very lengthy discussion when Patreon banned pornography, which I wouldn't say was effecting "conservative windbags". In fact I recall it was argued this move disproportionately affected the LGBT community, which evidently often crowdfunds their pornography. A similarly lengthy discussion was had for a similar story concerning Tumblr.
In response to accusations of bias, dang has stated something along the lines that people tend to view HN as having a bias contrary to their own, no matter what their own happens to be. From what I've seen that rings true.
Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re...
by afuchs on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @07:41PM
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The predominant viewpoint of most HN posters seems to lean towards some idealized form of anarcho-capitalist libertarianism. Although there are definitely a few leftists and conservatives in the mix.
Well, that's all well and good; but I do notice that on Hacker News there is a very strong tendency to only report and discuss this kind of thing when it affects "conservative windbags" or people with terrible long-discredited ideas or campaigns against individual women.
It's also well worth discussion "stochastic terrorism", the phenomenon by which injecting hate material into public discussion will eventually cause someone to take it seriously. If you say "carthago delenda est" often enough someone will carry out a mass shooting in Carthage.