I don’t think that article did anything, it’s just that the Great American Gorilla Chimpout was a call for action to leftists around the globe that they can push further their agenda and no one would notice due to being overwhelmed.

@AnonymousTheGreat  
They actually have already started demanding DB ban more stuff now. As for “using speech to suppress other people’s speech”, that’s not a thing. Unless you mean using it to call for the suppression of speech. That certainly happens and always will. It’s the modern expression of the primitive human instinct to hit the other caveman until he shuts up. It’s an immediately self-defeating proposal, though. It also carries the benefit of immediately outing those who call for such suppression for the little would-be tyrants they are. And as I’ve said before about numerous subjects: if people want to loudly out themselves, let them.

@AnonymousTheGreat
 
The desire to silence other people is an idea that should always be resisted, be it in defense of either left, right, or grill-leaning peoples. That is the point of this. The people here are (at least overwhelmingly) against banning communism themed content just like they’re against banning Nazi themed content.
 
I don’t wish to see any people be suppressed, but, frankly, there is no such thing as being marginalized when it comes to a platform where you can trade ideas, unless one side becomes thumbed upon by the people in charge. I’m hoping the staff here has learned by Derpi’s mistake that being biased as such is a huge mistake. But if some people saying zigger or making holocaust jokes is something you don’t want to see on a platform that is completely willing to let you speak your mind, the answer to that problem is not “run away and nuke the platform from a safe distance”. It is the fault of neither pro-expression users or the site staff if this is what you decide to do.
 
You entirely have the right to engage these people, the same as they can with you. It’s best for both sides to be civil, obviously, but until people learn how to get the fuck over scary words, every community will end up as an echo chamber for either side of the isle. Which is a fate I want stopped in it’s tracks, so we can go back to just having fun again.

I do love me some freedom of expression, but allow me to be the leftist devil’s advocate here and say that, while it’s good for people to have the freedom to express themselves, far right wing elements will cling to their right to free speech, even if they’d like to use that right to suppress the free speech of marginalized groups. It’s also not much of an argument to say “Oh gollee, they’re banning aryanne today, tomorrow who knows what they’ll ban”. That’s just a straight up slippery slope fallacy. I’ll admit that I’m only diving into this ponybooru derpibooru divide literally now, so I don’t know a whole lot about this issue, and I’m willing to give people here the benefit of the doubt considering I don’t see people using the n word left and right and talking about the jq like this is /pol/. Now THAT’S a shithole.

Now that I’ve been watching this more carefully, it’s still funny a comment I saw from the pro-censorship people “the only big artist you had was Shino”  
This clearly says otherwise.

@Zaknel
 
Well, as we’ve seen, what mods think is worth about as much as horseshit as far as the actual site heads are concerned. The entire mod staff could be certified members of the Based Department and it would have no impact on the site if the admins can just do whatever they want.

Good riddance DB staff. cept for FR, obv

@Osha  
Admins? No chance at all.
 
Other staff? Maybe a few of them will. Not a lot, but a few.

@RD8K
 
Glad he realizes that now. What are the chances any of the Derpi admins will learn from this? I got 20 bits on zero percent likely, anyone else in?

@RD8K  
Hindsight is 20/20.

Epic

I’m so glad this exists.

People.

@Wingnut  
I’ve always wondered about that “depiction is approval” mindset. If that’s the way things work, Mel Brooks, Steven Spielberg and Taika Waititi should watch their asses.

@Wingnut
 
I’m fairly certain BLM has a higher K/D ratio than people who’ve upvoted pictures of Aryanne, but that’s not worth making note of, is it. I have no idea where the idea that pony nazi violence is on the rise comes from, and I’ve yet to see any of the people claiming it exists provide a single shred of evidence for it. It’s 100% just victim fantasy.
 
@Officer Hotpants
 
“Silence is Violence” is a much more catchy and easily marketable slogan, so I can understand why twitter trend types would latch on to it.

@Wingnut  
It’s worth remembering that these are the same philosophical gods that brought us “words are violence”. And then “silence is violence”, because they’re less consistent than the power during a lightning storm.

@asdtroi8895  
That’s exactly what it is. It’s not “seem to be”, they themselves are saying that drawing any kind of Aryanne pics is actively promoting and glorifying nazism.
 
If you look at the post at 00:38, it’s talking about how “this shit already cost lives”. In other words, these geniuses are seriously claiming that someone looked at Aryanne (or other nazi pony) pics, became radicalized from that, then went out and murdered someone in the name of their glorious nazi pony overlord.
 
Edit: I guess since they live completely in their own fantasy worlds (you really would need to be, to make up things like that), that’s what’s preventing them from discerning what’s real and what’s not. Fantasy is their reality.

@Daneasaur  
It would be the perfect start for the season premier

I tried my best to understand those people, but they seam to be in the delusion that drawing ponies with nazi marks is an actual glorification of nazis. They just can’t seperate fiction from reality and its just wierd.

@Officer Hotpants  
I’m all for it too.

@Officer Hotpants  
I’m all for it.

HOO, BOY, WE’RE GONNA NEED A FUCKING TRILOGY COMPLETE WITH TEXT CRAWL NOW!

Hey, I’m here now!
 
 
Fun times.

It’S jUsT a SoCiOecONomIc tHeoRy!!!