> [> Who benefited from this?](https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/117200423826181771 )
The fediverse. The fediverse benefited from this.
It is better off without that person, who is a bad person, and running them off was the correct decision. "They might have brought more people to the Fediverse" is not important *at all* and certainly does not offset the fact that they *are definitely* still doing business with and enriching the forces that are destroying Western civilization. Why the fuck would anyone ever make that compromise? Shitheads, that's who.
"Well, democracy has been destroyed by oligarchs, but at least our MAU is up!"
"He disabled Ukrainian internet services mid-war, but I uploaded pictures to his website, so we're still besties"
Deciding that someone belongs to a morally unacceptable category and then chasing them out of your community is *fucking awesome* and the fact that it works is *wonderful*. Whether this behavior is ethical or not is rooted in how those categories are defined.
"Chooses to do business with Twitter" is a perfectly valid reason to tell someone to fuck off, or to block them, or to tell your friends to block them. Using Twitter is a *decision* and people are allowed to despise you for the decisions you make.
For instance, you are choosing to conflate 'holding someone accountable for their choices' with 'violent hate speech' and that's utterly despicable. You do this a lot, like when you tell a story about someone getting blocked and threatened. Those are two separate kinds of behavior. One of them is a crime. The other is *completely fine* ... but your post lumps them together. Why would you do that? Because your argument only holds up if you can convince readers this person is a helpless victim of some kind of unprovoked aggression, instead of a full-agency grown-ass adult who makes bad choices and suffers opprobrium for them.
Well, I don't buy it.
khm
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