Ravelry, an online knitting community that has more than 8 million members, last month announced that it would ban forum posts, projects, patterns, and even profiles from users who supported the Trump administration. “We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy,” the administrators posted on the site. “Support of the Trump administration is undeniably support for white supremacy,” the post added. The administrators have maintained that they aren’t endorsing Democrats or banning Republicans.
Thank you for shining a light ont this important issue. You deserve great credit for dealing with this hypersensitive matter with exceptional restraint and diplomacy. My personal response is to vote with my feet. I wrote a program tonight to convert the Ravelry json download to a nice HTML output. My wife will be deleting her Ravelry account in the next few days. My Internet gateway firewall will never see Ravelry again. As I told my wife, it's not about President Trump. My response would be the same if such hateful bigotry was directed toward Obama or Clinton.
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Social Media, Crafters, Gamers and the Online Censorship Debate
Posted by: Peter Suciu July 12, 2019 12:09 PMRavelry, an online knitting community that has more than 8 million members, last month announced that it would ban forum posts, projects, patterns, and even profiles from users who supported the Trump administration. “We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy,” the administrators posted on the site. “Support of the Trump administration is undeniably support for white supremacy,” the post added. The administrators have maintained that they aren’t endorsing Democrats or banning Republicans.