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Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit (piunikaweb.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Paul McCartney’s official Reddit account seems to have been banned. The account, u/paulmccartney, had just dropped a set of photos and videos from the first night of his shows at the Fonda Theatre. It went straight into the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Then, not long after, the whole thing disappeared.

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[–] 57 points 5 months ago (11 children)

I just want to say that I know people who have known Paul for many years, and every single one of them have nothing but good things to say about him. He knows people want to catch him doing jerk behavior, so he bends over backwards to be polite and respectful to EVERYBODY. He's a Righteous Dude.

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  • [+] -18 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Unfortunately my first association is the "Glass Walls" ad that was hammered into my brain hundreds of times before I learned to block them.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTifP6idBPs

    No, Paul, do you think slaughterhouse employees are even more likely to be vegetarian? Good intentions, but so infuriating.

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I'm a carnivore, but I respect reasonable vegetarian/vegans. I'll take a rock star taking a stand like that over Lars attacking music fans because they love music too much.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    I remember a study from a few decades ago that said pirates are often spending MORE on media than non-pirates, because they're able to branch out and experiment with more media, then buy the media, instead of sticking to what they know and just buying the same old shit. I don't know how to explain it. But pirates tend to spend more than non-pirates, allegedly. I'll try to find the study.

    found something already: https://www.vice.com/en/article/study-again-shows-pirates-tend-to-be-the-biggest-buyers-of-legal-content/

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Thats exactly what happened back in the "Home taping is killing music" era of the 80s. The record companies were insisting on high taxes on blank tapes, which they wanted to collect to compensate for lost revenue on mix tapes and such.

    So they funded a study to prove their case, and the study found that those who did the most taping were also the ones who bought the most music. These people loved music so much that after they spent most of their disposable money on albums, they spent the remainder on blank tapes to get even more music.

    Home tapers turned out to be the strongest music fans, and biggest customers, and unsurprisingly, they discovered the same thing decades later with downloaders.

    That kind of kills their rationalizations for the draconian punishments they were demanding.

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Lars? Lars Ulrich of Metallica fame? Why would he get mad over fans liking music? When did this happen? The Napster case, while bullshit, at least had something of a leg to stand on but this is just absurd.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, it was tough to watch that whole video. I hope things have improved since then, although I'm sure in a lot of places they haven't.

    Eat less meat and if you do eat meat, pay extra for pasture raised animal products.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Some things get better, others get worse. It's never a bad day to give up animal products.

    If you'd like to donate to a group that's fighting for these animals check out thehumaneleague.org.

    💚💚💚

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