You have a really conflicting view. Social media platforms have been laying rules and policy that go way further than free speech so yes people are being censored or at least their speech is being restricted. You say feminists are for free speech and transparency and yet you believe that the people being banned are all deserving of that? With them implementing a global currency, you don't see the problem with them being able to ban people from its use? That's about as centralized as you can possibly be. A normal person can at least acquire cash, but if you're off Facebook, good luck. The leftist argument that they are a private company and can do what they want is also bogus unless Facebook decides it's a publisher, not a platform otherwise they cannot continue to enjoy the privileges of being both a publisher and a platform. If they continue to arbitrarily apply rules to certain groups and not others they will be forced to admit they are just a publisher and be regulated as such.
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Now that I've made it past the first few remarks I see Iflagtrash is censoring lordbutterfly, he's even threatened to flag anyone who engaged with him, so you want to repeat that to us again about banning people from a crypto or how that's not centralized, I've yet to see anything Lordbutterfly has said in this discussion that warrants being flagged for. A little like the pot calling the kettle black.
Also, they are a publically traded company not private, so why people try to argue they are private doesn't make sense.
That's just in the sense that they are not a public utility not to imply that they are not publicly traded. I assume anyway, I don't make that argument.
On private servers by private companies.
You have no free speech in my house. If i do not like what you say i will kick you out. It doesnt matter if that is a party where everyones invited.
My comment on neo femminists wasnt in term of free speech but rather in terms of overexaggerating reppression in western countries.
I think crypto ideology greatly exaggerates both repression that is happening in western countries and importance of other libertarian ideas. What ever they might be.
Publisher vs platform.. Its really not a leftist argument.
Facebook does not ban based on ideological differences. If they do they can easily argue differently and arguments will prove in opposition or in favor. I have almost never seen a ban that could be seen as completely unjustified by their terms of service.
It is no accident that radicals are the ones being banned the most.
Take for example a super popular facebook page called "Di Su Pare" with almost a million followers.
Their facebook ban was raised in the croatian parliament by the leftist opposition leader as a violation of free speech because they were supposed to be a satirical page.
Do you know what those guys did?
They took a cardboard cutout of Luka Modric (The current top player on the world by Fifa) and cut his head of and posted the video because there is rivalry between north and south of croatia in football.
See thats not "really bad"... But the underlying fact is that only fringe stupidity like this gets banned.
Regular folks dont worry about things like this.
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I dont think stuff like this is a free speech issue.
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You are 100% right @lordbutterfly... The delusion of Steemit knows no bounds. "We will take on Facebook and win!"
Big LOLZ
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No one needs to take it on, that's what we said, that it would naturally fail and either way it benefits Steem
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Yes I'm sure with their billions of dollars of marketing spend it will fail, and Steemit who have a history of ahem excellent marketing will take advantage of that failure.
In the meantime I will be crowned new king of Mars and it will rain marshmallows for a week.
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Facebook has many failed projects and people are leaving facebook in droves. Their coin offers no incentive to hold it and it's not competing with steem as it has no social aspect. I think it will fail and if it doesn't we still ultimately benefit off the hype with no drawbacks :)