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Re: Former top Twitter official forced to leave home due to threats

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I don't like the witch hunt culture no matter which direction it goes. This whole situation is cringe. However, I'm not convinced by the popular argument explaining why Musk is "wrong" - that he has a "responsibility" when speaking to his 120 million followers that is not shared by anyone he mentions in his speech. This seems arbitrarily restrictive at first glance, because it means anyone can speak about Musk, but h…

Instead of cooking up hypothetical circumstances in which Musk is a hapless victim, how about we examine the actual situation where he and others are insinuating that this Roth guy was promoting pedophilia (he wasn't), and the fact that Twitter isn't consistently removing obvious and explicit death threats. Edit: for context, here's a collection of threat examples from a fairly well-known researcher who regularly cat…

Thanks for sharing that link. I do wish people who share tweets from the "far-right mob" would share more context. These looks like bots with zero reach that could've easily been created by 4chan dipshits trying to build a case _against_ Musk, as was the case shortly after Musk took over and we saw a surge in hate speech.

TheNoticing1: Joined November 2022

SoCallFreedom09: Joined November 2022

Ajinkya: Joined April 2017, 20 followers

alec51100718: account suspended

FarCue13%: Joined June 2022

DualityofHan: account suspended

I'm in no way defending what Musk did to Roth and find it despicable. Roth was not promoting pedophilia, and Musk insinuated he was.

Re: Former top Twitter official forced to leave home due to threats

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This sort of personal attack + ideological battle comment will get you banned here. Please don't do it again, regardless of who you have a problem with or which ideology you favor/disfavor.

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