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A Popular Knitting Website Banned Posts Supporting Donald Trump...

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"We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy. Support of the Trump administration is undeniably support for white supremacy."

...People who support the Trump administration are still welcome on the website, but are asked to keep their views to themselves, the administrators added. The site said it's not banning anyone for past support of Trump, and users would also not be allowed to antagonize people with conservative views.

"We are definitely not banning conservative politics. Hate groups and intolerance are different from other types of political positions," the new policy said.
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Ravelry, A Website For Knitting Fans, Banned Posts Supporting Donald Trump

They don't oppose conservative ideas, just hateful ones. and that leaves the president out. They make a valid distinction, for the most part. Anyone espousing a conservative idea that Trump happens to support, well, just leave him out it.
 
I could have gone my entire life without a single thought regarding the political ideology of online knitting communities.

Just had to ruin that, didn’t you?
 
Damn knitters. When will the madness end? :shoot:duel
 
... awaiting the announcement of the new "knitters for Trump" group ....
 
I'm guessing they experienced a flood of rubber neckers! (like I was trying to be) ... or Trump-supporting spammers trying to pay them back for their decision.



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At least they got the lady balls to pick a side, ****ed up as it is. I’m almost moist with anticipation of opening an account and trolling me some...knitters!
 
"We are definitely not banning conservative politics. Hate groups and intolerance are different from other types of political positions," the new policy said.
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Touché or should I say Crochet.
 
Amelia said:
... awaiting the announcement of the new "knitters for Trump" group ....
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Afghans for Trump?

He would see this as if it was the country and claim that they love him in Afghanistan.

I can hear him now claiming he "Heard it on Fox News" and that he saw thousands of Muslims celebrating....

:2party::2party::2party::2party::2party:
 
j brown's body said:
Ravelry, A Website For Knitting Fans, Banned Posts Supporting Donald Trump

They don't oppose conservative ideas, just hateful ones. and that leaves the president out. They make a valid distinction, for the most part. Anyone espousing a conservative idea that Trump happens to support, well, just leave him out it.
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Unless they ban all political speech, it looks like the free speech hating illiberals are bringing us closer and closer to the Supreme Court ruling that addresses this kind of outrageous censorship.
 
For a second I thought this was about the band "The Knitters"
 
3leftsdoo said:
Unless they ban all political speech, it looks like the free speech hating illiberals are bringing us closer and closer to the Supreme Court ruling that addresses this kind of outrageous censorship.
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Conservatives are all for private communities setting rules and making decisions that reflect their views until they aren't.
 
HenryChinaski said:
Conservatives are all for private communities setting rules and making decisions that reflect their views until they aren't.
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Seriously. What is so hard to understand about the first amendment applying to government, not to private companies?

And this from people who don't even want federal restrictions to apply to states ... except when it's a rightwinger trying to make a leftwing state conform.
 
3leftsdoo said:
Unless they ban all political speech, it looks like the free speech hating illiberals are bringing us closer and closer to the Supreme Court ruling that addresses this kind of outrageous censorship.
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"You must either accept everything or nothing," interesting assertion.

What authority does SCOTUS claim over Ravelry.com's moderation rules?
 
What if someone knits a sweater that says "TRUMP 2020"? Can they post a picture of it?

SRS INTERNETZ QUESHUN HURR
 
3leftsdoo said:
Unless they ban all political speech, it looks like the free speech hating illiberals are bringing us closer and closer to the Supreme Court ruling that addresses this kind of outrageous censorship.
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WHAT.
THE.
****?

What the actual **** do you think the SCotUS is going to do about this blogger's decision about her site?

Do you actually think the Supreme Court of the United States of America is going to tell some blogger what sorts of comments she can have on her site?
 
Thingfish said:
At least they got the lady balls to pick a side, ****ed up as it is. I’m almost moist with anticipation of opening an account and trolling me some...knitters!
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I wish you wouldn’t. Most people like me who are Ravelry members don’t go there to discuss politics, except to a very limited extent, and usually about topics that aren’t “hot.”

I’m a knitter who goes to Ravelry to look for yarns, knitting patterns, and advice and comments on those yarns and patterns. I hadn’t realized until I saw this thread that political discussions were going on. Even though I’m an unabashed trump opponent, I don’t agree with this decision. I’d have to look and see what went down before the decision was made, but right now I don’t feel like it.
 
3leftsdoo said:
Unless they ban all political speech, it looks like the free speech hating illiberals are bringing us closer and closer to the Supreme Court ruling that addresses this kind of outrageous censorship.
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I was once banned from a discussion forum similar to this one, less than 10 minutes after I posted a message that ridiculed then-President GWB. I then got a snide message from the grand poobah of the forum informing me that I had been banned because of that post, which showed great disrespect for the office of the president (read: I dissed a president he liked).

Would you have called that “outrageous censorship’s?”
 
HenryChinaski said:
Conservatives are all for private communities setting rules and making decisions that reflect their views until they aren't.
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I wouldn't know about that.

But illiberals sure do hate free speech that doesn't agree with their own.

:hm
 
Amelia said:
Seriously. What is so hard to understand about the first amendment applying to government, not to private companies?

And this from people who don't even want federal restrictions to apply to states ... except when it's a rightwinger trying to make a leftwing state conform.
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The 1st often applies to private companies.
 
NiceGuyEddie said:
Simply more evidence of liberal herd-mentality at work. Trump Bhaaaaaad!
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Very very bad.

Speaking or writing his name?

Hate speech.

Zero tolerance.

Jawohl.
 
Deuce said:
"You must either accept everything or nothing," interesting assertion.

What authority does SCOTUS claim over Ravelry.com's moderation rules?
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And one that no one's making - straw man.

Stay tuned.

:)
 
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