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Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by XorNot on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @11:52PM (#18767405)
You're making a real big assumption that anyone wants to build this service, and anyone wants to support it.

The evidence says, they do not - hate groups fail at these gives all the time because ultimately they also don't get along with anyone else.

I'd view that as the marketplace of ideas working correctly.

Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by PavlovsCat on Thursday December 27, 2018 @04:35PM (#18772820)
Hate groups. Naomi Wu isn't a hate group, other people who were booted off for totally arbitrary reasons aren't either.

And of course, people who just nilly-willy declare other people unpersons with a broad brush, those aren't hate groups, either, they couln't possibly be projecting.

You might be declaring millions and billions of people as "nobody", and a few ten thousand witch hunters and those who egg them on or belittle them as "everybody". The next few years will show.

> I'd view that as the marketplace of ideas working correctly.

By people being attacked and smeared? That's not what marketplace of ideas means.

So in your mind, would the "marketplace of ideas" be working even better if instead if just kicking people from Patreon, they'd also have their water and electricity turned off? If not, why not? Don't say "it's an utility", this is in the context of your claim nobody could possibly want such an utility. If that were true, it would be like regression to some very medieval understanding of society, if even that.