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Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card by manfredo on Monday March 25, 2019 @10:57PM (#19488907)
> Patreon has also banned various leftist sites for things like doxxing and posting instructions on how to commit terrorism, but that doesn't get as much attention for some reason.

For left leaning people it takes doxxing and instructions on how to commit acts of mass violence to get banned.

For the opposite ends of the political spectrum people have been banned for months-old videos - not even on a channel that the banned person runs - in which someone uses a swear word to tell the alt-right that they "are acting like n_____s" (which I interpreted as a deliberate word choice to emphasize irony that the alt-right is behaving how they often portray and see African Americans. Sargon's explanation is roughly similar). Meanwhile there are plenty of people who use the same slur regularly, some even in the usernames of their social media profiles. There is zero doubt in my mind that Patreon decided to ban Sargon on the basis of his political views first, then searched for something to justify the ban.

These are hardly the same situations.

Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card by thecatspaw on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @04:43AM (#19490120)
> For left leaning people it takes doxxing and instructions on how to commit acts of mass violence to get banned.

It doesnt take that. But the far-left rarely insults people with racial slurs.

Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card by baud147258 on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @08:33AM (#19491134)
> But the far-left rarely insults people with racial slurs

No, they prefer to use words like nazi, facist *phobe, which most likely won't get anyone banned, expect the target of those insults

Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card by thecatspaw on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:08AM (#19491414)
True, and I do not condone these insults either.

Its just that coorporations are far more scared of beeing associated with the right, than the left.

Legally speaking you're not allowed to insult anyone, wether as a n-word, nor as a nazi

Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card by manfredo on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @12:58PM (#19493666)
> Legally speaking you're not allowed to insult anyone, wether as a n-word, nor as a nazi

This is absolutely false, at least in the US where Patreon is based. Out of curiosity where did you get the idea that insults are illegal (assuming you're talking about the Unites States)?

Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card by thecatspaw on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:30AM (#19499232)
Local laws.

Calling someone a nazi when you cannot proof that they do indeed follow that ideology would also be slander/libel.

Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card by manfredo on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:46AM (#19502080)
Libel is much more specific than just insults. Libel entails knowingly making false statements to harm someone's reputation. It's also much harder to prove than most people think.

Someone tried to sue for calling someone a Nazi but lost [1]. In this case the defendant claimed to have been presenting a hypothetical. I have not been able to find a successful defamation case due to someone being called a Nazi in the US. Not to mention it wouldn't affect calling a black person a n____r because such a statement is not factually incorrect (as the slur is a derogatory term for a black person).

1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thewrap.com/james-woods-bea...