I'm not a fan of this guy's message at all, but the fact that you can be so easily and totally de-platformed should be a clarion call for everyone.<p>Platforms wield too much power and can wholly and totally destroy us. Run afoul of their rules just once (or maybe even not at all), and your business or identity gets totally erased with no recourse.<p>This is a shameful and scary state for us to be in. Serfs of the platforms.<p>If the political zeitgeist continues to become even more extreme, you might get silenced for questioning the origins of a virus, being LGBT, or expressing displeasure at a certain political candidate or business leader. Left or right.<p>It should be impossible to remove someone from banking, PayPal, Shopify, social media, etc. -- unless they're actively breaking federal law. And even then, there should be a legal process in place to reclaim your identity and real estate.<p>If legislation won't help us, then we need to build peer-to-peer (not federated) systems that will.
Things like this is why I've been telling (less tech-savvy) friends to get off the internet for 5+ years now. There is just no way to stay clear of corporate control for the average person, regardless of your political opinions.
Of course, a lot of these platforms have no problem with such things against minorities or people without power. But if you're a CEO you've gotta be protected at all costs, you poor thing.<p>I wonder if they even realize they're responsible for this environment they've festered.
Besides these cards, ComradeWorkwear also has some great shirt designs. I got this one for the gym[1].<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.comradeworkwear.com/products/swoletariat-tee" rel="nofollow">https://www.comradeworkwear.com/products/swoletariat-tee</a>
It sounds like these CEOs are as tired of peaceful activism as we are of them. They are stopping all soft attempts thus making it clear that they want hard action to be taken.
I don't think this case is a meaningful test of speech codes.
The cards and culture-jammer stuff in general are tactics from a simpler time. Imagine if they released card decks for the DNC, NGOs, political staffers, the EU, etc. The world has changed. If someone put your face on a card, you would use what ever means of recourse was available as well.
Billionaires sure do love their free speech when it lets them flood us with blatant misinformation to their benefit. But as soon as it's used to criticize them they throw a massive fit.
I usually agree with EFF, but this clearly crosses a limit of promoting and glorifying violence. In this case the user is clearly in violation platform TOS.