Some caffeine fueled morning passion...

Social media platforms getting away with suspensions and all other manner of 'social punishment' has to be the highest level authoritarianism has ever reached in its entire history. Social Media platforms, have it seems, become a side gig for tyrants and the excuses don't cut it with people anymore.
It's hard to believe that "we the people" allow companies to govern over entire populations of people, much larger than some of the most democratic and free countries on the planet with an iron fist.

The enforcement of community standards for breaking arbitrary rules that wouldn't make it to a solicitors desk is extraordinary in the extreme. If it's not a credible threat or illegal, then it's obvious an intention behind the punishment is conditioning.

And this is what authoritarian regimes have done throughout history.

it's the governments doing it anyway

corporations are just subjected to governments. they either play along or have government sanctions

everything has tendrils to pull at. have to be ahead of the tendrils if you wanna be yourself, or they'll grasp you and pull you in and you get eaten, repurposed, and lose your soul

it's always creeping along, trying to getcha. become part of us. become part of the hive mind. the faster you get repulsed, the more aggressively it pursues because its vision is based on movement -- on its neediness to consume something delectably soulful, something it lacks. it must have it. you have it. it knows.

??? They are not suppressing you bro. Just go to your town hall or whatever and talk. Develop your own social network, and let people post stuff. Go to another network. Or just go do something else.

We have been banning people from IRC, online forums, and servers, ever since they existed. You know what I did when I got banned? I did not cry like a little bitch. I went to another server, or forum, and used it.

If you have a population that eats up social media garbage, the issue is not the website. It’s the dumb fucks using it.

@ars1 they are suppressing people. FBI investigates parents that go to school board meetings, and other public meetings. Dissent is treated as a crime almost.

@ars1 the folks will stay dumb because they keep banning any alternative forms of thought, dumbfuck

@ars1 I question without doubt as denied it should be, my figurative male sibling, that a quelling of your speech has taken place; you should consider an altogether different locale of expression, or concern yourself with supplementary matters.

Prohibition of entrance has been carried out since the very Genesis of the described medium. And I did not, in fact, shed tears as would a diminute female canine at the time of receiving an indefinite postponment from participating in any such platforms of digitally interconnected individuals.

Furthermore, due to the harrowing miserability and needlesly hostile character of my own person, my reasoning is entirely focused on the means of censorship itself and not in unjustified censorship as a concept; such subtleties of communication are well beyond the limits of my cognitive ability.

Sincerely yours,

my sobriquet is dangerously close to referencing my own behinds.

"highest level authoritarianism has ever reached in its entire history"

except that social media are in no way part of the government, but completely private.

@ars1 Pretty sure if someone now makes a new social network what claims that they don't track data or actually protect users identity, it will not last long before it get trashed by any government possible...

@ars1 hell yes! 100% agree.

I never felt oppressed by social media but I felt it because of traditional media. You're actually not opressed at all but you can feel quite small if you fall outside the general "opinion" as far people still have these and a few years ago a very, very bad idea to speak it out loud. For me whole covid was meh, but people didn't let me have my "meh". I had to panic like everyone. You're saying MEH?! You complot freak etc. Well, we're covid now bitches. And no, de vaccination came f-in late and didnt help at all. It was just meh. I want a statue. With meh. on it. Plot of story, I felt very oppressed. But actually, just wasn't allowed without consequences to say 1 specific thing. So if that's all, life great huh. We spoiled

Comparing what social media does today with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) moderation is a new one on me and actually an insult to IRC.

I have written IRC client software, advanced chatbots and moderation tools, I've even ran servers and guest moderated rooms that are still around today. IRC has been a positive influence and I've met lots of amazing people who have used it.

Moderators on IRC kicking the odd disruptive anonymous nuisance is a different kettle of fish to what Large Scale Social Media companies do now, every second 24/7.

IRC didn't ask for personal information and they didn't use unique identifiers to personally identify a "mark" or a "person of interest" or slap you with a "Social Credit Score" that follows you around like a bad criminal record".

And do you know what's amazing? Everyone got on just fine, people just got on with their own business.

@bazmd for some reason I never got into irc. It's still used that much? I did write an IRC server tho, just for fun

@retoor IRC was great. The original underground internet. You could find anything in there, drugs, terrorism, you name it.

@antinazi meh, have my drugs on WhatsApp and Telegram. I communicate as easy with a seller as my auntii anie. That's great. But don't swap them accidently

@Liebranca admitted, as no native speaker I had to use google translate to understand your rather advanced english.

I like what you said though

@vlord I'm also not native. I used google too ;>

It's an old meme, started by Joseph Ducreux.