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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by 1996 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:20PM (#25951645)
> it's deplatforming, using AWS as a weapon against smaller voices. I can't see this ending well.

This, so much - imagine you believe "they" stole the election, "they" got your favorite social media shut down (parler/gab/whatever), "they" blocked the buying of options, "they" then liquidated your position as the price predictably fail and you got margin called, you complained but "they" got your feedback deleted. Ouch.

I can't see this ending well at all. The executive will have to be extremely careful with what they will enact. The climate was already tense, but this is making it explosive.

I'd be extremely careful for all my 2021 forecast.

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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by XorNot on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:28PM (#25951779)
So this is conflating some very different circumstances.
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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by 1996 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:40PM (#25951916)
Do you seriously believe the average person won't think like that?

It's breaking trust at the society level.

It can become extremely dangerous when a large percentage of the population don't believe there's a social contract anymore.

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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by 1123581321 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:25PM (#25953437)
The point is that a widely perceived conflation will have material effects on the involved organizations and that the conflation will spread to new organizations with each new incident.
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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:19PM (#25952302)
Agreed, if you keep demonstrating that might makes right, eventually people will act on in.
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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by 9985479945_ on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:29PM (#25951788)
In all of these cases ‘They’ were within their rights.
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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by read_if_gay_ on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:35PM (#25951857)
So? That is supposed to make it okay in people’s minds? I kinda doubt it.
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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by rurp on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:28PM (#25952395)
"They" also write the rules, so I can't see how anyone is going to be convinced by this.
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