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Re:Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue by ponker on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:20PM (#24033902)
Just because a person is gay doesn’t mean that they care about gay rights, especially if they are a billionaire, because nobody really impinges on a billionaire’s rights. As an analogy, say some anti-Semitism was spreading on Twitter and there was a Jewish CEO of Twitter who didn’t delete it. You couldn’t defend him by saying “he’s Jewish I’m 99% sure he cares about anti-Semitism” because if some thugs decide to beat up a random Jewish person on the street it just isn’t going to be the Twitter CEO.

(not making a statement about Tim Cook because I don’t know anything about his positions on gay rights)

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Re:Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue by mike00632 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:33PM (#24033964)
Right, Tim Cook is no Peter Thiel.

Edit: Tim Cook has made numerous public statements in support of gay rights and being gay. My personal favorite: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/24/tech/tim-cook-gay-apple/index...

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Re:Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue by scarface74 on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:16AM (#24036724)
> because nobody really impinges on a billionaire’s rights.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/09/world/oprah-winfrey-racism-sw...

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Re:Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue by ponker on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:57AM (#24039366)
OK, someone missed out on her fundamental human right to be shown a handbag. Not pleasant, but not a real worry.
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Re:Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue by scarface74 on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:35PM (#24039907)
This was just a literal case of billionaire being discriminated against.

The bigger point is having money doesn’t stop discrimination.

Someone called the cops on Ving Rhames for sitting in his own house.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/actor-ving-rhames-said-...

*I get up, I open the door, there's a red dot pointed at my face from a 9 millimeter, 'Put up your hands.'"

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