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partiallypro wrote: post #441
slg wrote: post #432

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>It has only been very, very recently that we have gone from... Would you have said the same thing about ridiculing someone for being openly gay in government 30 years ago, being Catholic in government 60 years ago, or being Black in government 80 years ago?

No, because those aren't even remotely similar things. It wouldn't be a "hate crime" to call a Catholic a Protestant, or a Gay person a Straight person or a Black person a white person. It would be a hateful to deny them rights or to call for abuse. In this instance the "hate crime" is merely saying someone's biological sex is x, even if they say they are y. However, If I called a non-trans woman a man or a non-trans…

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Post by Krasnol »

matwood wrote: post #469
Krasnol wrote: post #306

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He lost money before on his childish outbursts. Why is this supposed to be different?

The scale. A million here and there for him is nothing, but billions is real money, even for him.

Obviously not or he wouldn't have gone so far in the first place.

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Post by bmitc »

mikkergp wrote: post #450
CDRdude wrote: post #448

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Twitter is no longer a publicly traded company. Elon Musk owns it now.

He still has a fiduciary duty since he's not the sole shareholder though.

Who are the other shareholders? I thought the entire point of the purchase is that he bought out all the shareholders.

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Post by nemo44x »

bergenty wrote: post #391
throw_m239339 wrote: post #359

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> Advertisers are going to be pretty concerned when their paid content is showing up in screenshots mixed in with "questionable" content. Are you aware Twitter already allows all sort of depraved porn on their platform already? Did Advertisers leave the platform as a result of this already? Maybe Twitter should get rid of the hardcore pornography first.

What’s wrong with hardcore pornography?

I think it’s about context. I’m of the persuasion that it should not exist within mainstream society. It should be sent to the margins and not integrated into normal life. We shouldn’t have strip clubs or brothels in the town square for example. Out to the borders where it’s there if you need it but it isn’t casual.

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Post by solveit »

slg wrote: post #440
xyzzyz wrote: post #419

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Babylon Bee was not first to “target” Levine. Washington Post, for example, has run an article on Levine before Bee, also for the sole purpose of Levine being trans: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/19/levine-tran... If WaPo can bring out “random bureaucrats” to public attention for sole reason of being trans, why can’t Bee do the same?

Giving an award to a Black person has slightly different connotations when it is done at a NAACP meeting compared to a Klan meeting.

But I absolutely don't want Twitter to decide which organisations are like the NAACP and which are like the Klan. This is regardless of who runs Twitter.

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koolba wrote: post #24
lapcat wrote: post #2

Delay decisions, set up a committee... wow, that was fast, he's already becoming Jack. [EDIT:] The problem is that a "council with widely diverse viewpoints" is not going to come to consensus on moderation. They're inevitably going to disagree, just like in politics. So then what? How is lack of consensus not the inevitable outcome of a widely diverse committee?

> How is lack of consensus not the inevitable outcome of a widely diverse committee? That sounds fine to me if there’s actually a diverse set of view points. Getting censored should require a wide swathe of agreement. Not just a vocal minority.

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Post by mikkergp »

LastTrain wrote: post #204
mikkergp wrote: post #7

This sort of justifies the viewpoint that despite all his bluster, Elon will probably run Twitter the way a "reasonable executive" would. Not just release the hounds. Keep the advertisers happy, but try to reduce the reliance on advertisers. Keep moderating content to reduce abuse, maybe eliminate the high profile banning but a person on the ground will have largely the same experience. (probably less action on more…

What hounds?

https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Hell%20Hound#content

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Post by rubyist5eva »

Waterluvian wrote: post #264

I got a 7 day ban for a tweet that included “political suicide pact” as an idiom. I then got permanently banned for including the line, “sending their children to die in Ukraine” in a tweet. The “appeal” button causes me to get a denied email within one minute. This tells me no humans are in the loop on any of this. I don’t think these tweets were controversial or require any diversity of viewpoints. They just requir…

I got a permanent ban for quoting a video which contained "when do start killing white people" and said that this was bad. Banned for inciting violence, upheld on appeal and told it would not be looked at again. Twitter's current moderation policy is extremist ideological garbage.

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Post by FireBeyond »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #463
FireBeyond wrote: post #453

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What is your opinion on Parler deleting anti-Trump messages? Or liberal viewpoints? Or r/conservative banning people who have posted on any one of a number of other subreddits, sometimes before they've even posted in r/conservative?

Whataboutism... Edit: Not only that but also transparently disingenuous. I don't know r/conservative (my comments are not about liberal vs conservative and I find odd that you and others immediately frame them that way) but a dedicated 'conservative' subreddit is obviously not the same as Twitter, which, again as become the de facto standard for most political and news communication.

Not even remotely. I didn't agree or disagree with your statement on Twitter allowing all legal posts. I expressly chose not to.

What I'm asking you is if you think that those forums should also be required to say "Legal (Y/N)?" and if not, why not?

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Post by WaxProlix »

throw_m239339 wrote: post #424
bergenty wrote: post #391

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What’s wrong with hardcore pornography?

> What’s wrong with hardcore pornography? What's wrong with what Twitter progressives deem questionable opinions?

Hard to say with how vague that is, can you give concrete examples of these things that Twitter progressives deem questionable opinions?
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