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Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by root_axis on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @07:42PM (#18766223)
> The Internet as we knew it in the 90s is dead

FB, Twitter and Patreon are not the internet of the 90s. The internet as we knew it in the 90s is exactly the same today as it was back then and there were plenty of people receiving subjectively applied bans on various PHPb forums.

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Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by hnick on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @10:02PM (#18766915)
The key difference being they were usually banning accounts, not people. Many platforms are now linked to a real world identity, which I guess is unavoidable if you want to monetize your persona/face on YouTube/Facebook/Patreon, but it leaves less room for working around the system by making a new account.
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