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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by scandox on Saturday August 29, 2020 @05:41AM (#24314940)
That is the argument that slaves cannot assert their freedom, they can only become recalcitrant slaves because they at one moment in time accepted their slavery.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by hirako2000 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @06:50AM (#24315213)
It's a great analogy, that's why we banned slavery altogether and allowed personal declaration of bankruptcy, we learned from history and it took us centuries to get the slave drivers to comply.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by pjmlp on Saturday August 29, 2020 @08:02AM (#24315503)
Have we? Gig economy and offshoring practices are mostly disguised slavery.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by colejohnson66 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @02:42PM (#24318426)
I don’t think this comparison is apt. At least in regards to slavery in America. Weren’t many slaves forcibly taken from Africa (either by force or by purchasing from parents (and then using force))?
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by scandox on Saturday August 29, 2020 @05:55PM (#24319696)
Well I was thinking of King Agrippa counselling the Jews prior to their rebellion against the Romans:

"However, as to the desire of recovering your liberty, it is unseasonable to indulge it so late; whereas you ought to have labored earnestly in old time that you might never have lost it; for the first experience of slavery was hard to be endured, and the struggle that you might never have been subject to it would have been just; but that slave who hath been once brought into subjection, and then runs away, is rather a refractory slave than a lover of liberty; "

So yes a fairly different context.