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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by a1369209993 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @09:15PM (#26733889)
Actually I don't really care about conservatives getting censored[0]. I care about decent people, the ones who are not liberals or conservatives[1], getting censored or otherwise attacked for not supporting liberals (or McCarthists, or Christians, or whoever happens to be popular at the time).

0: except in a "huh, the canary just died" kind of way.

1: or whoever happens to be popular at the time.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by edmundsauto on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:30PM (#26754186)
Ah, in that case, one small bit of feedback - you might find a new term, rather than "cancel culture". To my understanding, that is a rallying cry for the American right wing. Specifically, it seems to be a criticism of a situation where private businesses decide what behavior is disallowed on their platform, especially when the violating entity is a conservative.
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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by a1369209993 on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:59PM (#26754606)
> a situation where private businesses [and the outrage mobs they listen to] decide what behavior is disallowed on their platform

Yes, that's (a significant part of) what I'm referring to.

> rather than "cancel culture"

Actually, I generally call it "social justice".

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