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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by jesboat »

asteroidbelt wrote: post #246
easygenes wrote: post #22

Free speech!

This is not exactly free speech issue, because Twitter does not ban based on political preferences/opinions. This is dishonest competition (all other major companies do the same but not as blunt: Facebook, Google, Amazon for example). Twitter could be an exception. But it won't.

> This is dishonest competition (all other major companies do the same but not as blunt: Facebook, Google, Amazon for example). Twitter could be an exception. But it won't.

During the #deletefacebook movement, Facebook didn't ban links to or discussion of competitors.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by astrange »

bydlocoder wrote: post #580
minimaxir wrote: post #545

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hijacking top comment to note Elon Musk has commented: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616426114932737 > Paul’s account will be restored shortly And https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616863673208832 > Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.

The company is a clown show if a CEO has to interfere with moderation policies.

Not really “has to”, he just is doing it because he’s got nothing better to do. Much like how he didn’t have to fire the previous head of moderation and spend the last week calling him a gay pedophile and releasing his work emails.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by michpoch »

It really surprises me how much attention twitter is getting on HN.

I must be living in some bubble, because not only I have never had an account there, I also do not know anyone who would be using it.

From my perspective I'd judge the popularity of Twitter to be similar to e.g. Soundcloud - people know what it is, but very few people use it.

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Post by MonkeyMalarky »

sytelus wrote: post #762
jdiez17 wrote: post #547

Musk just tweeted that @paulg will be restored shortly: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046164261149327... And “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.” https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046168636732088... Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240...

Just voted using all of my 12 Twitter accounts. There is a huge startup opportunity to let customers buy poll outcome through human farms in Indonesia. They will need to compete with state sponsored bots but that's ok.

What's the problem, money is just another form of free speech isn't it?

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Post by dang »

easygenes wrote: post #22

Free speech!

Please don't post unsubstantive or flamebait comments. We're having enough trouble with discussion quality as it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044189.

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Post by patch_cable »

pimeys wrote: post #713
DonHopkins wrote: post #551

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it make any sense to spin up your own little Mastodon server just for you and your most trusted friends, so you don't have to spend any time moderating content?

I am running Akkoma which is an Elixir server with Mastodon-compatible API. Super fast and runs well with my 10€ two server Hetzner setup. https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/

I am also running Akkoma on a free-tier OCI ARM instance. It runs great.

Akkoma also works with the official Mastodon mobile app.

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Post by [deleted] »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #618
jdiez17 wrote: post #547

Musk just tweeted that @paulg will be restored shortly: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046164261149327... And “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.” https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046168636732088... Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240...

> Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240 ... If it doesn't go his way how many times will he put up a new poll?

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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by MonkeyMalarky »

halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #519
consumer451 wrote: post #478

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> despite literally being at a party in Doha the world cup I wasn't sure that you were serious, but lo and behold... https://imgur.com/a/kyoI2X6 picture was posted by: Chief of Public Affairs - Air Force/Space Force (prior position: Space Force 45th Space Launch Delta Media Relations Chief)*PERSONAL ACCOUNT-OPINIONS ARE MY OWN

With Jared Kushner right next to him? Man the Monkey’s Paw is fully clenched.

Nightmare blunt rotation right there.
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