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Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards (www.eff.org)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Well, yeah, platforms (unless otherwise specified) are for-profit. Anything that would impede their profit stream is naturally going to be censored so that profit can continue uninterrupted.

Can’t have some idiot poor going around making richoids uncomfortable, they’d just pull their money, and that would mean less money going to the platforms.

Step 1: profit. Step 2: profit. All other steps: profit. EZPZ

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

This story goes way beyond that. The police have been harassing him as well.

It’s one thing to ban him from your own platform. It’s another to make sure no one else can choose to do business with him either.