Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ...
by lazyasciiart on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:59PM
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I don't know the Discord popularity but the reddit sub has like 4 million new users this week. Its not really at a scale where doing anything to individual users is going to work.
This. At the end of the day, Facebook/Discord has the power to ban individual users. There is no good reason to nuke an entire community if the the mods running said community are being cooperative. This isn't about "hate speech" or "adult sexual exploitation" or whatever the excuse dice end up rolling next time. This is a knee-jerk reaction from a platform with a ton of power and no incentive to wield it responsibly.