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Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by martin-t »

jgaa wrote: post #7

So much for Elons "Free Speech"! This may come as a shock to him: Free Speech means to allow people to say something that he disagree with. Something that may hurt his interests or even his ego. Free speech is not to allow people to say things he agree with or don't care about.

Not a surprise to him, he doesn't care.

It's a mistake to treat people with mental disorders as having an internally consistent view of the world. Or as actually believing what they say.

They are paperclip optimizers, this one optimizing for worship and power. In other words he has the antagonistic and communal subtypes: https://www.verywellhealth.com/narcissistic-personality-diso...

Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by j-bos »

This comment section has turned into something of a circle, it's cool to be mad nd all, but there was a comment expressing doubt at the details, wonder about a reason other than those stated, and asking if anyone independently verified, as I clicked it the comment was flagged to oblivion. No opportunity to engage with that viewpoint.

Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by scarab92 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #62
scarab92 wrote: post #40

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> Musk is dramatically more pro-speech than any other social media platform owner X is blocking private messages on the basis of their content. Every competitor with E2E as even an option clears this bar handily.

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Post by murg27 »

jgaa wrote: post #7

So much for Elons "Free Speech"! This may come as a shock to him: Free Speech means to allow people to say something that he disagree with. Something that may hurt his interests or even his ego. Free speech is not to allow people to say things he agree with or don't care about.

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Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by breakitmakeit »

jgaa wrote: post #7

So much for Elons "Free Speech"! This may come as a shock to him: Free Speech means to allow people to say something that he disagree with. Something that may hurt his interests or even his ego. Free speech is not to allow people to say things he agree with or don't care about.

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Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by BSDobelix »

decimalenough wrote: post #4

Remember the Arab Spring and how Twitter was hailed as a tool for the masses to fight against their oppressors? And remember how Elon bought Twitter, loudly proclaiming he was doing so to defend free speech? I'm mildly curious to see how X tries to justify this, but I suspect they've reached the stage where they don't even need to pretend to pay lip service to their notional values.

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Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by scarab92 »

zonkerdonker wrote: post #69
scarab92 wrote: post #40

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On the assumption you are acting in good faith, that is a very poor analogy. I think a more apt one would be: Imagine asking for a shit-free meal, and you're served a meal with just a little bit of shit in it.

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Post by gman83 »

everdrive wrote: post #103
decimalenough wrote: post #4

Remember the Arab Spring and how Twitter was hailed as a tool for the masses to fight against their oppressors? And remember how Elon bought Twitter, loudly proclaiming he was doing so to defend free speech? I'm mildly curious to see how X tries to justify this, but I suspect they've reached the stage where they don't even need to pretend to pay lip service to their notional values.

>Remember the Arab Spring and how Twitter was hailed as a tool for the masses to fight against their oppressors? The Arab spring was a populist uprising. It's not clear that there were actually positive outcomes; just increased geopolitical instability. Twitter has always been a social media platform, and definitionally it has therefore always increased extremism and populism. I find it incredibly disheartening that…

At least at the time, we thought it could be a tool for populist uprisings in authoritarian countries. Now it seems like they just want to promote populist uprisings in democratic countries.

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Post by milesrout »

_fw wrote: post #84
milesrout wrote: post #65

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Unfortunately this isn’t quite correct. They’re not neonazis but they are fascists, they don’t believe in liberal democracy and hold extremist (as in, objectively far right) views on women’s rights, Judaism, Islam and LBGT issues. AfD are also anti-science proponents of climate change denial, and are quite happy to hold opposing views from one day to the next. By all means ask me for receipts

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