Possibly. But I don't know who issued the ban and think it's fair to assume it was a mod I was aggressively disagreeing with and ridiculing.
Well, my ban is proof that this is not true. At least from my perspective.
Actually, it's hypocrisy that enrages me. It would be foolish to view upvotes or downvotes here as an actual reflection of peer sentiment. The rules of the platform allow for too much botting, shilling, and targeted harassment from users using multiple accounts. The votes might as well be meaningless. I'm here for discussion and to get people's takes on different arguments and ideas.
Seeing small dicked admins beat their chest over free speech and rights, only to engage in personal-vendetta style censorship when it suits them, is distasteful, to say the least.
I posted skepticism about claims that school shootings were "hoaxed". I don't rule out conspiracies, but claims about fake victims and hoaxes don't make any logical sense to me whatsoever, and I think can be ruled out with simple thought experiments. I'm talking about "fake town", "fake school", "fake children" bs. That doesn't rule out other "lean" mkultra style conspiracies.
I think that's a valid and neutral opinion.
I also addressed misinformation regarding a JFK quote. Although, in all fairness, I did get something wrong myself that I want to address in a new post. I know I directly, and somewhat aggressively disagreed with a mod on that one. But in all fairness, they are COMPLETELY wrong and it's easy to prove it with the full speech audio.
Other than that, I like to engage in aggressive debate, and like posting nuanced takes. I don't mind people using insults and won't hesitate to use them myself. That doesn't seem to be unique around here.
I lurked for several months before posting. So far I've made 3 accounts. The first was HardTruths420. I honestly forget what the second was because they banned me after just one post (granted, I was calling the mod compromised).
But hey, in my view, their behavior seems highly suspect.
First of all, I'm not a leftist, you presumptuous buffoon. I don't think you could pin me down on a political spectrum and frankly think the device is a ridiculous control mechanism used for divide and conquer.
Secondly, I am not "legislating" the adoption of my views to anyone. How would that even be possible? How can one "legislate" their views to others on an open internet forum?
Thirdly, all I've done is offer rational, persuasive, logic based arguments. It's difficult to do this when you're banned for questioning the moderators views or pet conspiracy quotes.
People respond with insults and shill accusations rather than address what are often nuanced, highly specific arguments. Which I find suspect. That feels like exactly what a shill would do. If those insults and accusations are enough to be banned, then this should be universally applied and not just at the retarded whims of a small dicked admin.
You can't claim to stand for free speech and ban people who make you mad. It's pathetic. It's also frivolous, since I can continue to make new accounts. It just makes the mods look like free speech hypocrites.
You sound like a liberal on twitter defending corporate censorship.
You people are no different. You cannot handle rational criticism without devolving into the exact people you claim to hate.
Keep defending censorship.
I can continue to make new accounts and post here.
You literally cannot censor me here, and just look like a hypocrite for even trying.
You can build a better platform to prevent this, if you can't handle it.
Don't pretend to stand for free speech if you don't. You people are no different than the fat loser mods at reddit, apparently.
Scared of rational debate and critical thinking. Very big brain of you.
That's what I thought, too. One of the mods is either comp'd or just a mealy-mouthed loser who pretends to stand for free speech until someone insults and disagrees with them.
Just another shitty group of abusive mods. I honestly am so disappointed.
They didn't provide an explanation either. Probably something to do with their small dicks, if I had to wager.
You're a dipshit moderator that shit's all over the principles you claim to espouse.
Yeah, I definitely didn't do anything illegal. That's complete and total bs.
And I already told you the account name. HardTruths420.
Pretty sure it was one the mods here that issued the ban, too. Because as soon as I posted about them banning my account from a newly created alt (with a similar name... I think HardTruths423) I was banned within 5 minutes.
That's quite a coincidence. Especially since there's obviously no way that one post was illegal. Totally ridiculous. It's obviously an abusive mod.