Posted to their announcement channel, centralization of services and its consequences
I knew something was up when Discord said “oh btw we’re going to take disinformation more seriously now”
My first thought was “Oh great, so after years of Covid disinformation, they’re finally going to - ha ha nope I bet they’re suppressing leftists”
They do it on purpose. None of them organize but every single one of them will smell the air to make decisions.
Once one big tech company starts to ban for something, each and every one of them will jump on board.
None of them organize
I bet five hexbear gold that if we took a thorough examination of who the key shareholders of these companies are, as well as who sits on their boards, we would find out that it is, in fact, quite organized.
I read through their announcement blog post and it was 100% about Covid disinformation. No mention of any other kind.
So I’m a little surprised. I thought they’d wait a week or two before extending it to suppressing leftist spaces.
Yeah I don’t buy it. The time to ban covid disinformation was during the height of the pandemic, not weeks “after” it, and conveniently right before banning discords for “Russian propaganda”
What they’re doing is plausibility deniability. They’re using it as a cover for their censorship.
This is banning covid disinformation from the lib point of view. Currently the status quo is that covid is not that bad and that if you are vaccinated you should be allowed to do whatever they want. GenZedong would be supporting China’s point of view where they are still treating Covid like a dangerous virus and advocate for lockdowns and mask mandates. Therefore, libs will ban China for covid disinformation.
Very cool that the pedo groomer messaging app is taking a principled stance on misinformation
E) I am going to report all of the game mod channels for misinformation when their releases are a day later than anticipated
I am once again asking political dissidents to stop using communications tools marketed towards children.
I am once again asking political dissidents to stop using communications tools which lack a spell check feature on Linux.
I am once again asking political dissidents to stop using communications tools which transfer all messages through a central server in cleartext so the owners can read through their conversations and take issue with the “misinformation” they’re sharing.
I am once again asking political dissidents to stop using communications tools which include privilege escalating code for screen recording and keyboard event interception straight out of the box.
I am once again asking political dissidents to stop placing their trust in “minumum viable products” designed by Silicon Valley techbros who read “The Lean Startup” and “The 4-Hour Workweek”
unlike reddit this absolutely has zero justification because you don’t exactly have free and open interplay between openly accessible servers, lmfaoooo. Reddit could pull a whole “brigading” piece out of their ass but discord? Blatantly fucking obvious it’s just “bad politic” to literally anyone and everyone
IIRC Discord has long done arbitrary bans of channels and users for vague reasons, this isn’t new
lol i got banned from genzedong for telling ppl to join hexbear
E: sorry was thinking of r/informedtankie actually
wait maybe im thinking of r/informedtankie actually, but someone posted some thing about why ppl shouldnt join this site that linked to a genzedong post about ppl not being sectarian enough on here basically
The “left unity” well is so thoroughly poisoned on Reddit that you could dilute it with arsenic. Any community which can bring anticapitalists together under a common cause is subjected to wreckers, sectarian purges, admin coups, or outright bans. Places like r/ShitLiberalsSay are very rare. And for every good place that gets destroyed, we get five more iterations of r/StupidPol.
They did do that hostile takeover of /r/genzanarchism awhile back. Maybe we should be a bit cautious about welcoming all of them here.
