Comment on Bandcamp... What now?
sj_zero 11 months ago
One thing that most reddit alumni won't care about, but one of the nicest things about doing it decentralized is censorship resistance.
Bandcamp at some point decided that the political views of the artists on their platform are a reason to get rid of some artists.
You might not see a problem since you agree with bandcamp's politics, but companies change their politics on a dime when it becomes useful to do so.
One problem with open source commercial sites is you're typically going to need business partners to handle credit card transactions.
rigatti@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What political views did they censor?
sj_zero 11 months ago
They took down tim pools music, and recently I went to buy some mp3s of a guy who opposes covid mandates and he was banned too.
Again, lots of folks might disagree with both those people, but when it comes to shit like this you are always next.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-bandcamp-removes-timcast-five-times-august-from-platform
rigatti@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Dim Tool makes music? That’s hilarious. Anyway I don’t have a problem with platforms removing COVID misinformation.
sj_zero 11 months ago
Does saying a false thing about COVID mean that everything you've ever said can now be banned everywhere forever?
Since not every one of the guys songs were about COVID, but they were all taken down.
Does this apply to disinformation like "If you get the vaccine you won't get COVID"? How about "If you get the vaccine you won't spread COVID to others"?
mulcahey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, because you’re making a ton of sense. It’s not about Tim Pool, who is a dumb incel POS. It’s about the HUGE dangers of giving a company unilateral power to ban someone based solely on speech.
What if Bandcamp’s new owners are more like Facebook? They could ban work that promotes women’s rights and abortion access, which is exactly what Facebook has done.
What if Bandcamp’s new owners (or the owners after them) are more like Twitter? They could ban antifascist activists or journalists.
It truly doesn’t matter how you feel about one person. It matters how you feel about principles.
sj_zero 11 months ago
At the end of the day, what you're talking about is exactly right.
It feels like a win if people you don't like get silenced, but it's a two sided sword that rarely ends up back in the scabbard without tasting friendly blood -- as you've shown.