Sunday, February 4, 2018

Facebook Blocks Jordan Peterson's Access to His Own Account


Look, Big Internet is the enemy of open speech. Just be aware and think of workarounds.

-RW

16 comments:

  1. If they keep doing shit like this to JBP, there are going to be riots in the streets.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Why? Can't Peterson simply choose another platform. If Facebook sucks simply stop using it.

      Delete
  2. As if he needed it, JBP's cred just went up. Thanks again lefties, you make it easier every day.

    ReplyDelete
  3. "His" account? Did he pay for it? Facebook is a private company that can restrict who uses their platform, right? Oh wait, lolbertarians only believe that when they're censoring "nazis".

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. They've got a perfect, legal right to be obnoxious assholes. Just like you do.

      Delete
    2. Jesus. Using possessive pronouns does not necessarily mean that someone is claiming a libertarian property right, e.g., my brother, my hometown, her husband.

      Delete
    3. But Fakebook wants us to take them seriously!!! Sure I will take you serious, serious as a fascist engine of the deep state!!

      Delete
    4. Paul, that's a major weakness of libertardianism. It assumes those who build great companies actually respect ideas like property rights, free speech, and NAP. You know, maybe magic dirt here in the states is not what it used to be.

      Delete
    5. Is there anything in their terms of service to suggest that they can induce you to upload hours and hours and months and months of material but they then have the right to capriciously and viciously delete your entire body of work without warning or right of appeal just because they do not like your politics? Or because they just feel like being mean and rotten? I suppose they could have written terms of service providing for such an arrangement, but I do not think they do.

      Delete
  4. This will happen more and more frequently. The Daily Stormer was banned from the internet even though it was a completely legal site. Once they saw there was no pushback from that they became emboldened. Do people think that it will be limited to the Daily Stormer?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Lolbertarians don't care until it happens to them, then censorship becomes a problem.

      Delete
    2. It could easily happen to Target Liberty one day, or any other sites that engage in BadThink.

      Delete
    3. Re: Robert What?

      --- The Daily Stormer was banned from the internet even though it was a completely legal site. ---

      Legality has nothing to do with anything. Only Socialists (and National Socialists, it would seem) think of Facebook and other platforms as public utilities, when they're not.

      Delete
    4. Well it is probably against ICann rules for a domain registrar to blacklist a legal website. But which ICann official is going to go to bat for such a BadThink website as the Daily Stormer?

      Delete
  5. As a private business they may do anything like this that they want. But they may have to take the consequences of their actions. If enough people are not satisfied and/or take their actions as prejudicial or completely unfair to those who have differing political opinions then a more fair platform will likely be offered. You may be able to piss some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, but piss off all of the people all the time? I also think that Jordan Peterson is capable of putting the Zuck in his place, as he has demonstrated with other collectivists.

    ReplyDelete