Longtime Slashdot reader DF5JT writes: On July 26, I posted a single announcement in r/backgammon: GNU Backgammon for Android, GPLv3, the first standalone backgammon engine on F-Droid. Reddit's spam filter removed the post and permanently banned my 11-year, 30,000-karma account -- the result is pub...
  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world
    12·
    12 days ago

    Like every law, it’s there to protect and serve the billionaire class and their interests… Who do you think wrote them in the first place?

    • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
      71·
      12 days ago

      I don’t think such a cynical view of laws applies to all laws in Europe GDPR genuinely improved the privacy of people living in the EU.

      I guess if you’re dystopian enough you could claim that labor compromise laws (such as the laws requiring worker representative on company boards) protect billionaires because the prevent the glorious revolution™, but the lack of such a revolution in the US suggests that giving workers democratic input into the companies they work for is simply a good law and not in the interest of billionaires.

  • radiofreebc@lemmy.world
    4·
    12 days ago

    I had a 15 year account (and every other account i’ve made since then) permabanned sitewide for saying “$GME” on r/wallstreetbets once.