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Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by tomrod »

notduncansmith wrote: post #311
amrocha wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The writing has been on the wall for years. He swatted a journalist for being critical of Tesla. At this point anyone that still supports him is willingly looking away. Edit: he swatted a whistleblower, not a journalist

Do you have a source for this? Elon’s recent treatment of journalists is mostly what comes back when I try to search for it.

Try setting the timeframe to search up to a few weeks ago.

Maybe this one? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/03/elon-musk...

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by jimmaswell »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #275
bko wrote: post #136

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> This may be too meta, but there are a number of topics where I find the HN comments really low quality. I agree. I'm not sure why, but there's something about Musk's behavior that really irks a lot of HN readers. To be honest, for some reason I can't pinpoint [0] I feel a tremendous sense of schadenfreude against Musk. Hopefully that hasn't affected my comment posts too much. [0] I'm somewhat politically conservati…

Not really schadenfreude for me, just disappointment lately.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by richbell »

noirscape wrote: post #360
ClumsyPilot wrote: post #36

Ah damn, I hoped for a fair experiment to demonstrate absordity of total free speech, but istead we got bog standard hypocracy! Boo! If you are caught wondering why some people still support Elon - in 'true conservative' society, like Russia or Saudi states, hypocracy is means of demonstrating hierarchy. So as a leader, you show that you are dominant by demonstrating that rules don't apply to you. That makes you even…

This is always how it goes. Free speech absolutists that run web communities basically always stop short the moment they feel like they are under threat (regardless of any actual threat). Even the most infamous of free speech platforms will just ban users who hurt the admins feelings. Back when Gab switched over to using a hostile fork of Mastodon for a backend[0], Torba banned the users of FreeSpeechExtremist (a Ple…

> This is always how it goes. Free speech absolutists that run web communities basically always stop short the moment they feel like they are under threat (regardless of any actual threat).

Years ago, I was banned from a "free speech" / skeptic subreddit because I corrected someone who turned out to be the head mod.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by jchw »

That's the plan? Lock the doors to the exit?

Hahahahahahahahahaha.

Oh, I try to avoid reductive, knee-jerk responses. However. There's occasionally something so mindbendingly stupid, that it's hard to come up with a way of responding that would qualify as "reductive." And if there were one such moment in 2022, this would be it.

What an unbelievable show of arrogance, misunderstanding of the internet, and blatant disregard for any reasonable ideals. Elon Musk and Twitter were truly meant for eachother.

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Post by ancapsfascists »

ummonk wrote: post #370
ancapsfascists wrote: post #337

There's no defense of this policy. (It's his platform, he's free to do what he wants within the bounds of the law, of course, it's just a stupid policy and antithetical to free speech.)

He's not free to do what he wants if it violates antitrust law

Of course

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by martythemaniak »

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.

Sorry, just last week a buddy said something like "Musk could inspire great, dedicated engineers to join because they'll be inspired by his free speech stance". I had a good laugh, but maybe my friend was not very up to date on Twitter drama.

Surely after this past week's purges and this "policy" nobody could believe anything of the sort. Does anyone still think something like the statement above? I'd love to hear the reasoning.

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Post by electrondood »

es7 wrote: post #93

Thats got to be the worst possible decision for Twitter to possibly make. What good is a social media platform that prohibits links to other platforms? I use FB, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Discord, etc for a variety of purposes and find and share great content across platforms.

Come speech freely on Twitter! You can share any link from any platform in this list of platforms right here:

* Twitter

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Post by ndsipa_pomu »

NN88 wrote: post #329
bko wrote: post #136

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>The Musk comments are ridiculously low quality What makes it low quality if he's deserving of ridicule?

Because it's not adding anything of interest and we already know what kind of person he is.

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Post by KerrAvon »

guerrilla wrote: post #324
drdaeman wrote: post #170

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Honestly, this. I wasn't expecting much but was hoping that at least Elon has some unorthodox idea to try. What he promised wasn't supposed to work, but no matter who he is and what he believes in, I had to give him some respect - dude had actually put his money (lawsuit or not) where his mouth was, and that's a commendable thing. Except that... I really don't like roasting people - that's just faux pas, so I'll rath…

> dude had actually put his money (lawsuit or not) where his mouth was, and that's a commendable thing. No he didn't. He was forced to.

Nobody forced him into committing to buy Twitter in the first place. What they forced him to do was follow through on that commitment per the contract he signed.
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