Seriously, wtf is going on? All the big platforms are going ban happy on a lot of people as of late for no reason, no explanations, nothing, or for extremely vague bogus reasons if they even say anything at all, a lot of people are getting randomly screwed out of the blue on years long accounts, they literally didn’t do anything to warrant it at all, even I got randomly nuked and locked out of most of the internet without any warning, discord is the only one that hasn’t been going crazy lately.
When the heck did it get this bad? Why are they going after people doing literally nothing wrong but leaving porn/scam/AI bots and actual TOS violators be without an issue? How do they benefit from banning everyone with no reason? What’s the goal here? Because it sure isn’t for stopping bots or scammers, those are running rampant more then ever now, and I don’t see how they gain money by banning and discouraging people who create content for their platforms, isn’t that like, bad for them?
EDIT: right, forgot everyone here is super duper political. Fyi I’m not much of a political person (sorry y’all), and I don’t really understand how any of this benefits them politically in anyway to begin with, or what any of this has to do with shareholders? How does any of that benefit those guys in anyway? I’m talking about normal people getting randomly banned without any politics even involved, people just hanging out in normal spaces and suddenly getting the ban hammer out of nowhere with no explanation.
You know how Trump accused Biden of censoring social media? Well he’s actually doing it. And he’s doing it at scale. The social media platforms are being forced to bend the knee. And that includes mass banning based on partisan lines. Anything left of centrist dem risks being purged from corporate social media.
There are some documented communications from Dems doing this. Of course Trump is doing it ten times as hard. Precedents matter, and this has been going on on a smaller scale since way before Biden. Probably back to Reagan or much earlier. Before social media it was controlling the major news outlets, although back then there were still a few independent journalists. Now independents get deplatformed.
They just keep getting more and more emboldened. They’re determined to control the narrative, and by they, really I mean oligarchs.
There’s a difference between banning fascists and banning people who say we should be nice to each other. The paradox of intolerance.