Comment by josteink

2 years ago

Uh. Did you miss the part of my comment which said that link-banning being bad?

Also nice hyperbole you got there.

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UncleMeat  2 years ago

What hyperbole? We've got a policy that is link-banning while unbanning people who are holding "legally allowed opinions" (nice edit) like Mr. West and other racists.

  • josteink  2 years ago

    The edit was a clarification based on your comment which was clearly misunderstanding what I was trying to say. Nothing malicious/nefarious intended.

    Also: while Kanye is clearly his own kind of category of crazy, what “other racists”?

    I don’t know a single such case.

    • optionalsquid  2 years ago

      > Also: while Kanye is clearly his own kind of category of crazy, what “other racists”?

      >> I don’t know a single such case.

      One example I remember reading about was Andrew Anglin [1], the founder of The Daily Stormer [2], a website that, to save you a click, Wikipedia describes as "an American far-right, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, misogynist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, and Holocaust denial commentary and message board website that advocates for a second genocide of Jews".

      As his Wikipedia article [1] notes,

      > Anglin was banned from Twitter in 2013, but was reinstated weeks after the site was acquired by Elon Musk in 2022.

      [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Anglin

      [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer

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