Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
by XorNot on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @10:33PM
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If you see platforms being moderated, it's because the platforms want to survive. Because their usually is only one around, because once it becomes toxic the regular people flee and the toxic elements follow because having a platform is not the point for them.
Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
by agensaequivocum on Thursday October 17, 2019 @02:54AM
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Or the free market was hindered by the government's regulatory Jim Crow laws.
True libertarianism dictates that I can ban whomever I want from my shop. But in reality most of the bans were of the 'No Negroes' variety. I would love to think that the free market would take care of discriminatory businesses, but history shows it will not.
I agree that the true issue is ultimately monopoly: if a town has 10 newspapers and one goes democrat-leaning, no one would really care. But it's different if there is only 1 newspaper.
I worry that there can only ever be a single Friendster/Google+/Myspace around, because people will always gravitate towards the most popular one.