Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab by cpursley on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:12AM (#25929122)

Even then you could still end up in the gulag. My wife's great grandfather spent years in work camps because his drinking "friends" turned him in for expressing "unfavourable opinions about Stalin".

While not anywhere nearly that extreme, it makes me nervous that we're moving in that direction culturally (where it's socially acceptable and encouraged to turn someone in for having the "wrong" thoughts).

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Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab by ibejoeb on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:35AM (#25930265)

Victorians in Australia have been arrested for contemplating protest, and some of those originated from via "tips." It's not a giant leap.

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Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab by kls on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:17PM (#25931709)

This is in no way an endorsement of the Soviet Union but it does need to be noted that the Soviet Union was in most parts of it's history, far more moderate than the Soviet Union under Stalin, Stalin has a higher body count than Hitler. Now in saying that, the Soviet Union was never a bastion of enlightenment era liberalism, free thought or personal freedoms. I agree it's not a end goal we should be striving for.

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Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab by fakedang on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:10AM (#25941294)

Interestingly the same could've been said for China post-Deng, pre-Pooh.

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