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Culture War Roundup for the week of November 27, 2023

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You get banned on most political subreddits for bog standard conservative thought. I was banned from /r/science for asking an AMA poster whether IQ could explain the differences in his group outcomes...

yeah i agree that's bad, but that's not the central example of conservative thought. there are plenty of places 100x larger than us where conservatives and liberals debate, so op's reason isn't correct

Where do you think that is?

the specific thing i was thinking of was big politics discord servers. Twitter technically qualifies I think, there are a lot of "debates" in the comments of big posts.

Elon's Twitter still four routinely bans gimmick meme accounts for joking about the wrong people, and Discord is censorious as hell.

elontwitter bans leftist gimmick accounts for dumb reasons too? Pre-elon twitter definitely banned rightists more, but it's getting a lot closer recently. Discord doesn't censor conservatives at all afaik? As opposed to the far-right who they do a bit

but it's getting a lot closer recently.

Yeah, but that's not saying much given where we started.

As opposed to the far-right who they do a bit

Without a post-hoc definition of "far-right", I can't agree to that. I've seen a trad-cath guy try and start no less than 3 Discord servers until he learned that is not a good place for him to organize.

I was responding to 'bog-standard conservative thought', earlier. There are plenty of small servers with open nazis who don't get banned on discord, and bigger servers with open nazis that just recreate every so often. Yeah, far-leftists get banned a lot less on discord.

I've seen a trad-cath guy try and start no less than 3 Discord servers until he learned that is not a good place for him to organize.

What kind of stuff was being posted?

I was responding to 'bog-standard conservative thought', earlier.

"Abortion bad / gay marriage bad / trans bad" is bog-standard conservative thought, and it will reliably get you banned if you push it too hard, and especially, too successfully.

There are plenty of small servers with open nazis who don't get banned on discord, and bigger servers with open nazis that just recreate every so often.

This has always been the case with social media censorship, and this argument was always wrong. The censorship tactic employed it here is to wipe out the middle. Tiny servers / influencers are irrelevant, big enough ones cause a fuss if you ban them (which you can still occasionally do when the payoff is big enough), but you can ban the middle with impunity, thus breaking the pipeline.

What kind of stuff was being posted?

I really don't like Discord, so I only poked my nose there a few times, but I haven't seen anything outside of what you'd see following the Distributists's twitter (they were his servers).

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Ill admit I know basically nothing about discord outside of gaming with it. In those getting banned for being to the right is super common.

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