Twitter bans a popular French activist and the spokeswoman of the Pirate Party (opens in new tab)

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27 pointskdunglas3y ago13 comments

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DoItToMe813y ago

Okay, what was the ban actually for?

lapcat3y ago

Who are you asking? There is no explanation.

https://twitter.com/MarxFanAccount

https://twitter.com/florielvm

Nobody can even ask Twitter for an explanation.

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cbeach3y ago

I don’t know which tweets the account was banned for, but the username “MarxFanAccount” is a red flag IMO

If there was a “NaziFanAccount” I’d expect it to be banned. And Nazi ideology killed far fewer people than Marxist ideology in the 20th century.

consumer4513y ago

I was curious and tried to search Twitter usernames for those strings but search has not worked for over a week for me.

Is this the case for everyone else?

wkat42423y ago

Those people were not killed by Karl Marx' ideology. It was perverted by dictatorships using it as a banner but it didn't inspire their atrocities. Just like the German Democratic Republic wasn't really democratic at all.

Karl Marx' ideology never promoted hate unlike Nazi ideology.

Krisando3y ago

You should probably read Karls works and his successors works like:

- The Motorcycle Diaries

- The Jewish Question

- Das Kapital

These were written within ideological contexts and contain things that we would consider hate speech today. Very much perpetuating ideas like:

- lazy Mexcians

- Jewish world conspiracy

- Black people (he would call them the n-word) being closer to the "animal kingdom" than man.

And they did all of these in ideological constructs.

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cbeach3y ago

Karl Marx’s ideology promoted the violent seizure of assets from the productive class in a revolution to install communism.

The ideology absolutely promoted dictatorship and totalitarianism. There’s no alternative system that can sustain communism, given how opposed it is to basic human nature.

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lucozade3y ago

Marx explicitly advocated for revolutionary terror with the intent to eradicate whole classes of people. That's quite hate-y.

The fact that professed followers of Marx riffed somewhat on his themes doesn't make his ideology any fluffier.

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DoItToMe813y ago

Okay, what was the ban actually for?

lapcat3y ago

Who are you asking? There is no explanation.

https://twitter.com/MarxFanAccount

https://twitter.com/florielvm

Nobody can even ask Twitter for an explanation.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-poop-emoji-autoreply-p...

cbeach3y ago

I don’t know which tweets the account was banned for, but the username “MarxFanAccount” is a red flag IMO

If there was a “NaziFanAccount” I’d expect it to be banned. And Nazi ideology killed far fewer people than Marxist ideology in the 20th century.

consumer4513y ago

I was curious and tried to search Twitter usernames for those strings but search has not worked for over a week for me.

Is this the case for everyone else?

wkat42423y ago

Karl Marx' ideology never promoted hate unlike Nazi ideology.

Krisando3y ago

You should probably read Karls works and his successors works like:

- The Motorcycle Diaries

- The Jewish Question

- Das Kapital

These were written within ideological contexts and contain things that we would consider hate speech today. Very much perpetuating ideas like:

- lazy Mexcians

- Jewish world conspiracy

- Black people (he would call them the n-word) being closer to the "animal kingdom" than man.

And they did all of these in ideological constructs.

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cbeach3y ago

Karl Marx’s ideology promoted the violent seizure of assets from the productive class in a revolution to install communism.

The ideology absolutely promoted dictatorship and totalitarianism. There’s no alternative system that can sustain communism, given how opposed it is to basic human nature.

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lucozade3y ago

Marx explicitly advocated for revolutionary terror with the intent to eradicate whole classes of people. That's quite hate-y.

The fact that professed followers of Marx riffed somewhat on his themes doesn't make his ideology any fluffier.

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