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    Quote Originally Posted by killramos View Post
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    Your company would have to be pretty messed up to hire based on ideology.

    Could you imagine if every company was run like the CBE or AHS?
    It's not so much the company as much as the individuals, usually. This kind of thing is not done at an official level. It tends to be done by ideologues and activists. So for example, a typical interview loop is 5 different engineers. If any one of them happen to be the woke activist type, they'll look you up and any social media that they find will bias them. The zealots would do a search if it was easy enough or if they hated the right enough. So when they vote you a "No Hire" and make a point of only highlighting the bad parts of the interview, or misrepresent how the interview went, nothing will actually say "had a Parler account" for example. They might say something like extremist social media activity though.

    In this case I could see some companies doing it even officially. AWS even cut them off. Now, all that any other company has to do is say yeah, that's a known extremist site, that's why AWS and Apple and Google killed them. They can either do that out of naivete/ignorance, or intentional dishonesty with plausible deniability.

    When people complain about big tech censorship/bias, I think there is a perception that this is done from the top. While sometimes it is, a majority of it comes from the bottom. If employees can't make the decisions themselves, they organize internal protests and put pressure on upper management. And occasionally an activist rises enough in the management chain that this makes them easy to convince.

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    Ban hammer coming to AirBnb

    https://www.engadget.com/airbnb-us-c...204308184.html

    anytime it has been able to confirm someone’s involvement in the riot, either through the media or law enforcement, it has investigated whether they have an account on Airbnb and then banned them.
    This shitshow is now worthy of a Black Mirror episode.

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    Quote Originally Posted by googe View Post
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    It's not so much the company as much as the individuals, usually. This kind of thing is not done at an official level. It tends to be done by ideologues and activists. So for example, a typical interview loop is 5 different engineers. If any one of them happen to be the woke activist type, they'll look you up and any social media that they find will bias them. The zealots would do a search if it was easy enough or if they hated the right enough. So when they vote you a "No Hire" and make a point of only highlighting the bad parts of the interview, or misrepresent how the interview went, nothing will actually say "had a Parler account" for example. They might say something like extremist social media activity though.

    In this case I could see some companies doing it even officially. AWS even cut them off. Now, all that any other company has to do is say yeah, that's a known extremist site, that's why AWS and Apple and Google killed them. They can either do that out of naivete/ignorance, or intentional dishonesty with plausible deniability.

    When people complain about big tech censorship/bias, I think there is a perception that this is done from the top. While sometimes it is, a majority of it comes from the bottom. If employees can't make the decisions themselves, they organize internal protests and put pressure on upper management. And occasionally an activist rises enough in the management chain that this makes them easy to convince.
    The joe rogan twitter / Tim pool episode actually did a good job highlighting this phenomenon, jack doresey highlighted that he wanted 2 twitters, one sensors and one uncensored, but it was highly unlikely employees or the board would go for it. The head of the legal department on with jack was a huge Hillary supporter, I suspect you would be hard pressed to find a republican at any equivalent level in Twitter or most other Silicon Valley companies.

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    Ban hammer coming to AirBnb

    https://www.engadget.com/airbnb-us-c...204308184.html



    This shitshow is now worthy of a Black Mirror episode.
    There seems to be a push to delete maga folks from the online world permanently, parallel economies are not a good thing, but I don’t see anyone with any power making a case to stop it from happening. If people are pushed to the edges of society and not allowed to participate, it generally doesn’t end well. See incels.
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    Companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon should be able to hire and fire their employees and their customers as they see fit. AirBNB should be able to do the same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster View Post
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    Companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon should be able to hire and fire their employees and their customers as they see fit. AirBNB should be able to do the same.
    What about Telus, Bell, and Rogers? What about ISPs?

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    Quote Originally Posted by googe View Post
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    What about Telus, Bell, and Rogers? What about ISPs?
    I think Buster try to say is the owner of the infrastructure can do what they want with it. If you want true freedom of speech, built you own uplink to the Internet. Is that how the TPB still operating after years of lawsuit by US gov?

    I believe there is a clause in the contract that ISP withhold the right to change the TOS any way they see fit and it's your right to cancel the service if you don't agree.
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    Quote Originally Posted by googe View Post
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    What about Telus, Bell, and Rogers? What about ISPs?
    What about them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabad66 View Post
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    Who knew righties were such snowflakes?
    Snowflake 1, someone else 0.

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    Quote Originally Posted by killramos View Post
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    You realize you are talking to the guy who made his own furniture out of salad bowls right?

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    That's fucking hilarious. In before other prisoners complain they have a strict diet of Wagyu and caviar.

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    Anyone see this? I am no lover of Trump but the hypocrisy is thick with this one... Haha!

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    Hey those politicians in Uganda are all upstanding citizens compared to DONALD TRUMP
    Originally posted by Thales of Miletus

    If you think I have been trying to present myself as intellectually superior, then you truly are a dimwit.
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    fact.
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    guessing who I might be, psychologizing me with your non existent degree.

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    I thought Facebook was an isp in Africa. Wasn't that a thing?
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    You realize you are talking to the guy who made his own furniture out of salad bowls right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    I thought Facebook was an isp in Africa. Wasn't that a thing?
    They realized that generating ad revenue is tough in places where people don’t buy things.
    Originally posted by Thales of Miletus

    If you think I have been trying to present myself as intellectually superior, then you truly are a dimwit.
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    guessing who I might be, psychologizing me with your non existent degree.

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    I didn’t know Twitter came out with a public statement in support of blocking parler?

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    Quote Originally Posted by tirebob View Post
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    Anyone see this? I am no lover of Trump but the hypocrisy is thick with this one... Haha!

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    that has to be a fake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster View Post
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    that has to be a fake.
    It’s not
    Originally posted by Thales of Miletus

    If you think I have been trying to present myself as intellectually superior, then you truly are a dimwit.
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    guessing who I might be, psychologizing me with your non existent degree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster View Post
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    that has to be a fake.
    I thought so too then went on Twitter... That straight up is a screenshot from my own phone and account. Mind blowing!

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    How bout this gem from 2015
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    2015 wsa a long time ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster View Post
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    What about them?
    Should they be able to say who can and can't use their services to express unfashionable opinions as well? If you say "stop the steal", or "there is no evidence that COVID started in the wet market", or "chemicals in the water are turning frogs gay" on your cell phone, is it fine to ban you from service?

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