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Discord Bans Servers That Promote Nazi Ideology (theverge.com)
A popular video game chat service with over 25 million users announced today that it had shut down "a number of accounts" following violence instigated by white supremacists over the weekend. Discord, the service "which lets users chat with voice and text, was being used by proponents of Nazi ideology both before and after the attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia," reports The Verge. "We will continue to take action against Nazi ideology, and all forms of hate," the company said in a tweet. From the report: Discord declined to state how many servers had been affected, but said it included a mix of old accounts and accounts that were created over the weekend. Among the affected servers was one used by AltRight.com, a white nationalist news site. The site's homepage includes a prominent link to a Discord chat which is now broken. The company said it does not read private messages exchanged on its servers. Members of those groups reported messages in the chats for violating Discord's terms of service, the company said, and it took action. "When hatred like this violates our community standards we act swiftly to take servers down and ban individual users," the company said in a statement. "The public server linked to AltRight.com that violated those terms was shut down along with several other public groups and accounts fostering bad actors on Discord. We will continue to be aggressive to ensure that Discord exists for the community we set out to support -- gamers."
Here, let me help you with this. It's called False Equivalence: a logical fallacy in which two opposing arguments appear to be logically equivalent when in fact they are not.
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It takes a few brain cells and an apt-get install to get an IRC server up and running.
Or just use one of the dozens already out there.
Much in the same way the Taliban destroyed statues if the Buddha, destruction of history should always be opposed, or should we tear down mt Rushmore?
No, not like that at all. They don't want to destroy the statue of Robert E. Lee, they just want to put it somewhere else, e.g., in a museum.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
I'm not sure I understand your point? There are other dictators who aren't Nazi's therefore...? Profit?
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
I am not arguing that there was no left wing terrorism, but in the modern context your statement is either vacuous or incorrect. The violence you are talking about was a generation ago, entirely different groups with different causes in a different political landscape. If you want to count 40 years back, we could include Timothy McVeigh on the right-wing side and he alone would outweigh all the deaths on the left. But I don't because, again, that was a different political climate.
Today, you are just being ignorant or stubborn if you honestly believe that there is more violence from the left than the right. I am not saying there is no violence, so don't throw that straw man at me, but to claim that the left is equal to the right (let alone vastly outweighs as you say) is just wrong.
Couldn't agree more. It was obvious if you were watching what went down live, it was perfectly peaceful until the police started herding the protesters into the violent counter-protesters.
It was nice to see Seattle handle it well, even with the counter protesters calling for violence and chanting "HOW DO YOU SPELL NAZI? SPD!" (Seattle Police Department).
Not to mention one group had the proper permits to be there, and fought in court to get them.
It's only going to get more violent from here on out though. As you said, same shit happened in Berkley. It's only a matter of time until the protesters start showing up armed and waiting to be attacked, since the police won't do shit to protect them.
So Japan must really be off the scale Nazi then? What about China? What about Indonesia or in fact most other countries in the world which are ethnically monolithic and wish to remain that way?