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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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[–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Liberalism is fundamentally a right wing ideology, it's primarily concerned about the freedom of markets, rather than the freedoms of people, and when it comes down to choosing between the rights of individuals and the interests of corporations, liberals will side with business interests, nearly every single time. Usually, they'll always couch it in more progressive terms, like talking about jobs and economic growth. That's why both mainstream Democrats and mainstream Republicans agree on most issues, because they're both pro-business, pro-capitalist institutions.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    So you can't be pro human liberty anymore? That's what being a liberal is to me. Corporations are not our friends and hate them as much as a leftist. In my mind, my and my peoples liberty trumps your idea of a perfect economic system. Whatever happens along the way to socialism or back to capitalism, human rights must come first. I don't know why that concept is so hard for leftists to grasp. I think leftists are affected by a similar psyop that affects Republicans in this regard

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Of course you can, but when people identify themselves or others as "liberal", they're not referring to individual liberty, they're usually referring to "liberalism", which does contain some elements of individual liberties, but far more importance is given to free market economics and free flow of capital, than it is to individual freedoms. That's why corporations can invest anywhere and borders don't pose much issue for them, whereas it is very hard and expensive for individuals to move to another country.

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

    You're talking about lasseiz fair liberalism. Billionaires and corps are not in any way shape or form "liberal" these days unless you want to talk about neoliberals who pretend to be altruistic. It's all a psyop to divide the proletariat

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    No, I'm just talking about liberalism. You probably have some high-minded enlightenment-era ideals floating around in your head about what liberalism is, but I'm telling you, your ideas about how liberalism is about freedom, that's the actual psyop to divide the proletariat you spoke of. Liberalism is functionally one big propaganda operation to replace monarchies with oligarchies.

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

    I don't think you know what you're talking about. Moreover, you seem to be lumping a bunch of things together.

    Are you American? I could blame that on the lack of a proper representative democracy. Everything gets shovelled together into either one camp or the other, even when they don't have anything related to each other.

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