Platforms systematically removed a user because he made "most wanted CEO" cards

Re:Platforms systematically removed a user because he made "... by chatmasta on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @01:57PM (#42702032)

I can understand the decision of a platform to remove the business account, or the posts of that account, which are promoting the sale of an item that’s basically inciting terrorism. But the decision to also ban his personal account seems like an overreaction.

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Re:Platforms systematically removed a user because he made "... by echelon on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:03PM (#42702111)

I absolutely detest this person's message and think they're a deeply flawed human being, but the power asymmetry and mechanisms to de-person are orders of magnitude more terrifying. This is 1984 type stuff.

The banking pieces probably fall afoul of AML/CTF rules, which is fine. But the social media bans, total wipe of accounts, no process in place for restitution, and no communication are literally mechanisms of de-personing.

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Re:Platforms systematically removed a user because he made "... by snakeyjake on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:26PM (#42702451)

I find the act of banning someone from tiktok being equated with "de-personing" them extremely interesting.

I think we have very different perspectives on what it means to be human, how much all of this (waves around hand in the general direction of social media) is worth, and what is important.

I value tiktok, and all other social media platforms, at nothing. $0.00, maximum. If you built your business on them, you fucked up. If you use them for news, you fucked up. And if you feel that they are needed or important, you DEFINITELY fucked up.

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Re:Platforms systematically removed a user because he made "... by lesuorac on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:43PM (#42702730)

The problem is that many governments are starting use social media as official platforms.

Want to know of road closures? Better check the relevant DoTs Twitter pages.

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Re:Platforms systematically removed a user because he made "... by chatmasta on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:59PM (#42704490)

That’s a legitimate problem, but it’s one that you should take up with DoT, not Twitter.

For critical services it may even be illegal, since you can’t access Twitter pages without logging into Twitter, and you can’t signup to Twitter without passing a CAPTCHA and other user-hostile gating mechanisms.

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Re:Platforms systematically removed a user because he made "... by semiquaver on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:19PM (#42702350)

  > literally mechanisms of de-personing

A person is not the same thing as their social media account. “Literally de-personing” is usually called murder and is already illegal.

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Re:Platforms systematically removed a user because he made "... by mschuster91 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:44PM (#42702734)

They are referring to 1984 where any hints on your existence got erased from public knowledge. And I think that there are a few cases where that happened in real life as well, IIRC under Stalin.

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