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Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by astura on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @04:22PM (#18765044)
For decades Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, exclusively sold censored music albums, yet nobody rioted over that, we all just knew not to buy our CDs there. I don't understand why people all the sudden believe they have a God given right to spew their garbage all over every platform in existence.... that's something very new.

EDIT: Source: https://corporate.walmart.com/_news_/news-archive/2008/04/29...

>MUSIC: Wal-Mart does not carry music that has the “parental advisory” label which warns parents about explicit lyrics. We carry some "edited" versions of music that have been provided by the artist or the music label. Wal-Mart does not edit music. Our role is simply to provide music selections that we believe our customers want to buy.

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Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by aeternus on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @05:18PM (#18765410)
I have an issue with Patreon not following their stated policy, rather than with them not allowing everything.

Patreon, Youtube and Facebook all purport to be free and open platforms except for very well-defined exceptions like speech that endangers others.

People can and should hold them accountable to their own policies. If they want to become moderated sites that allow only a subset of content/ideas then by all means, they should be allowed to do so, but they should no longer be considered open platforms and their policies should outline what content they allow.

Walmart's policy was very clear and they actually followed it.

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Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by eli_gottlieb on Thursday December 27, 2018 @01:54PM (#18771551)
>For decades Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, exclusively sold censored music albums, yet nobody rioted over that, we all just knew not to buy our CDs there.

Maybe you didn't riot over it. I thought it was blatantly censorious.

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