> Deplatforming is a freedom of association issue.
Its a freedom of speech issue: The right to choose what speech one will expend one’s resources promoting.
Or fear of the mob. We will be using DDoS-Guard going forward to show support for those with a spine.
Dunno that sounds vaguely like virtue signaling to me. Also, I'm personally not a big fan of a russian company MITMing my company's traffic.
Being a man of principal is not virtue signalling.
Ah yes, when you're doing it's "being a man of principal", when they do it it's "virtue signaling". I fail to see how this is any different than chinese people buying huawei in droves to "show support" for huawei/china/meng wanzhou.