OTOH. There will be a “ruling class”. And the old one was a helluva lot better than the new one, basically for the reasons Douthat describes.

It does not occur to him that there is an option beside “good ruling class” and “bad ruling class.”

Saying anything good about the past is racist!

Stigma isnt a bad thing, otherwise we’d have a society full of whores.  Hell, de-stigmatizing divorce has crippled the family.

I don’t understand any of this backlash. Corporation buys Tumblr, lawyers identify potential liability threat, corporation kills Tumblr.

“Verizon is only interested in profit and protection from liability.”

Why? Because these are the kind of people who chose the easiest line of work in existence. Any good looking idiot can take their clothes off and perform lewd acts to a crowd of riled up hornballs. If these were the kind of people who wanted to put in serious effort and really work (such as that required to build a…

“Not wanting what I want stigmatizes and alienates people that I say it does!”

Western countries that have legalized it don’t seem to have half the problems we do, with trafficking and other crimes not directly related to the sex work itself.

What I don’t get is instead of crying over getting kicked off every popular platform why don’t they CREATE a platform? Advertise that that platform is the spot to be, get it super popular, deal with the shit it takes to moderate, and then eventually get it shut down because something happened with kids or sex…

Translation: the careers of a figurative handful of consenting sex workers with the privilege to be able to do their work—from the comfort of their smartphone—matter more to me than children being raped on camera! Boohoo!

—it does include any content “that depicts sex acts.”—

The sad reality is that hidden among the sex workers who do it for money and fun, there are going to be countless sex workers that are victims of human trafficking and forced prostitution.

I mean is it really Tumblr’s fault if its users decide to abuse the platform to share illegal content? The removal of the app from the App Store would be a death blow if they didn’t change their policy to get the app re-instated. This seems like a necessary change for the platform’s survival.

Good.  You mean it is making whores lives more difficult.  Great, let’s not make criminals lives easier

Maybe quit whoring then?

Racists like Farrakhan are allowed to spew their hate on Twitter unobstructed. She makes a simple point that someone supports Sharia Law, points out that Sharia Law abuses the rights of women and LGTBQ people, and suddenly she’s an “alt-right Nazi.” An alt-right Nazi who defends homosexuals?

You should probably read her tweet. She’s the only “alt-right” person I’ve ever seen tweet a defense for the way women and homosexuals are treated under Sharia Law. Also, she is protesting for being banned when Farrakhan was not banned for tweeting, “I’m not anti-semite. I’m anti-termite.”

I hope the key thing is true. Also hoping that the police decide it’s too cold to fetch a hacksaw. Let her stay overnight and deal with it in the morning.

I see the The Root forgot the part where they guy who was shot was a friend of EJ’s so EJ was not some random black man just walking around the mall who the police shot, he was caught up in this public thuggery.