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Do you miss IMDb?


IMDb shut down the forums after Trump won the election in 2016. All of us ought to be upset with Amazon and maybe even leftist polictics more broadly. But the more I read discussions here, it seems like many people are actually happy to be evicted. So what's going on here?

http://takimag.com/article/lessons-from-my-porn-girl/

"Sarah Silverman, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Schumer…did they fight for the right to continue telling the race- and gender-based jokes that made them famous? Of course not. As leftists, they agree that some hurty speech needs to be suppressed, so they happily denounced their old work."
"Free speech matters to us. It doesn’t matter to them. Because their side doesn’t need it."
"We’re the ones who need the social-media platform, because we’re the people who don’t have the “mainstream” media and the D.C. establishment as our front men. So go ahead, deplatform leftists as they deplatform us. It won’t inhibit them. They have an entire party of activist politicians (and many in the opposing party, too) and the “mainstream” press on their side. They don’t need social media. Whereas for us, social media was a last gasp, a final chance to be heard. So if “we all go down” on social media, both sides don’t lose. The left still wins."
"Think in terms of Muslim suicide bombers. When the enemy hates your life more than it values its own, “a scalp for a scalp” doesn’t work."

Hollywood potentially loses a lot of money on movies that get bad word of mouth, like new Ghostbusters, or new Star Wars which still made a lot of money but should have easily made much more. I think people should be very angry about this. I always hope for the big blockbusters to flop. These people have everything and they're still picking away at us.

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IMDb's Message Boards were my life. I really miss it but I'm not crying. MovieChat is amazing. TheMovieDB is nice and FilmBoards is fun at times

I wanted to get an account at IMDb v2.0 but these assholes are afraid of opposite opinions and ban everyone

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Yes definitely. Years ago on there I had conversations with the guy who played Ox on Saved By The Bell and the girl who played Ruby Sue in Christmas Vacation. I miss random celebs reaching out if they liked a certain post.

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I feel you here

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