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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by filoleg on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:25PM (#26732956)
I think the parent comment is trying to point out that the people who were deciding who was a "witch" in Salem back then could be the same type of people who are deciding what counts as "racist" or "hate speech" these days when it comes to "canceling" others.
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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by krapp on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:40PM (#26733078)
Yes, practically everything every social media platform has done over nearly the last decade which anyone has ever disagreed with has been equated to Nazism, Stalinism, Orwellian dystopia or the Salem Witch trials. The slippery slope fallacy is very popular, especially on Hacker News.
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