Because it was either do that or have the sub get banned when there wasn't a good alternative (poal and saidit kinda suck imo and there was little enthusiasm for them). And it wasn't "stifling discussion", the limitations were clear. Don't say x words, don't say anything that could be interpreted as inciting violence or other illegal activity and a few other things that were reddit-wide.
Come back to me if they start banning people for wrong think here. Same people, so.
I sincerely doubt it's going to happen.
To be fair I don't think it would have been possible to leave very far back on to another platform. The .win platform has the appeal of being one of the few communities to successfully do that while retaining most of people in it. I'm not even aware of another one that wasn't just a husk of its former self that subsequently withers away. There's also the rallying factor that they were one of the most famously subjugated communities on reddit and did this. They also have unnamed benefactors funding the website construction and maintenance.
They're the perfect facilitator of this kind of thing.
That's fundamentally at odds with intellectual property rights though. That's like saying stealing books isn't theft just because it can be reprinted. Digital distribution is just a more efficient method of distribution, that doesn't mean the IP holders aren't entitled to monetize it as they see fit.
Yep. I didn't read the whole thing but it gets pretty cringe with how it tries to outline 'whiteness' and 'blackness'. Also how prevailing negative trends in the black community can't be placed on the shoulders of any given black person because, obviously, no single black person is necessarily going to be that way.. but for whatever reason, that doesn't go for white people.
Yes, as long as she shuts the fuck up about open-borders immigration I would gladly look past her past stupidity.
The only other dumbass thing I can think of that she's gone on about is her reconning bullshit, but I literally cannot give a fuck about that so it's whatever.
If you're curious about it, you don't need to read it, just read the ~15 page essay she did in 2012 (I think) that's the same thing just with less filler. The only reason the book exists is because the essay couldn't be monetized.
That said, there's probably not anything in it that you're not versed in. It's literally just expounding on the concept they've outlined in how they want to redefine what racism is. You know, dependent on oppressive power structures and what not.
I'm relatively new to it too and noticed the same thing. I found KiA2 first and was like "did somin happen to the first one?" and looked, noticed the drastic drop in quality, then just went back to 2 without thinking about it. I wasn't even aware of all the history at the time.
Know what'd really illuminate the point? Separate the data into sets with legally* obtained firearms used by the rightful owner and then illegally obtained ones.