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In those cases it's the business owner who decides. What happens when the decision comes after a mob puts pressure on the owner to drop that costumer or else?
by OCASM 6y ago
In those cases it's the business owner who decides. What happens when the decision comes after a mob puts pressure on the owner to drop that costumer or else?
- bjustin 6y agoIf there is a market for it, presumably some business out of reach of the mob in question will take up the mantle for the money. If there's no money in it, then the market is deciding that the market doesn't want the opinions in question. The market still decides in the end.
- OCASM 6y agoUnless they're too scared of harrassment by the mob, specially a state-induced one: https://nitter.net/AOC/status/1347679332014161920#m https://nitter.net/AOC/status/1347679332014161920#m
- dang 6y agoWe've banned this account for continuing to do political flamewar after we specifically asked you not to. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25695444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25695444
- OCASM 6y agoSo dissenting is now considered doing political flamewar? Ok.
- dang 6y agoGratuitous provocation and name-calling are not dissent. You can express dissenting views without doing those things, and users here are required to. There is a link, though: people with minority opinions are sometimes so frustrated with the majority that they lash out in frustration in ways that break the site guidelines. People with majority opinions don't usually do it that way. They're more likely to be self-righteous. Either way, though, users here need to follow the guidelines regardless of what their opinions are. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- OCASM 6y agoIt's always easy to willfully misconstrue what opposition says to justify their silencing. It's exactly what we're seeing at a large scale.
- dang 6y agoYou're skipping that you repeatedly broke the site guidelines and repeatedly ignored our requests to stop. What do you think we should do when people break the rules and flout polite requests by moderators?