Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy

Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by lenkite on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:34PM (#25953513)

You just need a few saboteurs coming in and posting "hate speech" on your forum and then reporting the same. Before you know it, you are banned, you have (several) news articles objectifying you as nazis and you are doxxed to high-heaven.

The only way you can get back is if you are "friends" with the big-boys or the mainstream media.

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Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by paxys on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:50PM (#25953635)

The oldest trick in the book for governments and large organizations. Large peaceful protest happening? Send some goons to blend in and cause trouble, and arrest everyone.

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Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by Lammy on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:00PM (#25953708)

> if you are "friends" with the big-boys or the mainstream media

For example: Bohemian Club was originally founded by San Francisco newspapermen in 1872, and you can see how many friends they have in very very high places. Manufacturing Consent is not a new phenomenon.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110720044742/http://library.so...

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Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by sneak on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:25AM (#25954330)

Guilt/censorship by association: your group, or ability to post, can be shut down by something someone else entirely did.

We desperately need to abandon centralized platforms. Continuing to donate content to them will never rid us of them.

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Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by dmingod666 on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:13AM (#25954595)

Hacker news is just a bunch of hateful people inciting violence. There, DoS in one sentence.

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