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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by sildur on Friday March 05, 2021 @06:01AM (#26355419)
Virtual book burnings, virtual public shamings... We are stepping closer and closer to virtual middle ages...
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by tibbydudeza on Friday March 05, 2021 @06:11AM (#26355491)
A good old pillory in the town square ... some people are just assholes.
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by bzbarsky on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:26PM (#26360093)
> A good old pillory in the town square

You mean like Twitter?

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by tibbydudeza on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:45PM (#26360337)
Nope ... real rotten tomatoes ... not virtual ones.
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by tubularhells on Friday March 05, 2021 @07:05AM (#26355902)
At this point I'm hoping for the Balkanisation of the internet, so that we Europeans wouldn't have to put up with American opinions on the web anymore.
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by jessaustin on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:07PM (#26360729)
Yet it is inevitably Europeans who complain about the widely-predicted effects of GDPR, a regulation designed to bring about the world for which you hope... Perhaps Europe is also not in complete agreement?
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