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Re: Miguel de Icaza shadowbanned from X for posting about Gaza

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Post by francoispon »

za3faran wrote: post #40
quotz wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My opinion is that he got seriously blackmailed. Musk meets Netayahu 27 Nov, and on 12 December its announced that SpaceX loses appeal for 1B in funding from the FCC regarding Starlink. There's probably lots of variables for losing the appeal, but considering how far the isreali lobby goes I really wont be surprised that they had influence, considering he was making Starlink available in Gaza for free. And this is ju…

Exactly. God knows what happened behind closed doors. I hope the truth emerges one day.

since when we do politics on HN ? those discussions are not going to resolve anything, maybe we should stick to you talk about hacker news ?

Re: Miguel de Icaza shadowbanned from X for posting about Gaza

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Post by hypeit »

francoispon wrote: post #41
za3faran wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. God knows what happened behind closed doors. I hope the truth emerges one day.

since when we do politics on HN ? those discussions are not going to resolve anything, maybe we should stick to you talk about hacker news ?

Politics came to the tech community in the form of Israeli manipulation of tech platforms and militant, blacklisting Zionism from the VCs. Israel caused this.

Re: Miguel de Icaza shadowbanned from X for posting about Gaza

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Post by hypeit »

andsoitis wrote: post #10
Despegar wrote: post #9

I would guess this policy is the result of ADL, other pro-Israel lobbying groups, and Israel itself, pressuring social media groups as part of their hasbara operation. And perhaps Elon Musk is a Zionist himself (he's certainly friends with many VCs who are). Miguel de Icaza is a random person to censor. I'm sure it's just a crude, automated policy that goes off the content of the tweet and his account having a large…

> And perhaps Elon Musk is a Zionist himself Not so long ago all the accusation was the he was anti-Semitic. The cognitive dissonance is loud.

Zionists have literally worked with Nazis to further the goals of Zionism. Look at the Haavara Agreement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement

Re: Miguel de Icaza shadowbanned from X for posting about Gaza

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Post by quotz »

francoispon wrote: post #41
za3faran wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. God knows what happened behind closed doors. I hope the truth emerges one day.

since when we do politics on HN ? those discussions are not going to resolve anything, maybe we should stick to you talk about hacker news ?

Theres all kinds of political articles on the front page coming up daily. From Russia and China, to Iran, to Republicans and Democrats, and Latin American politics. Whats been missing lately is Palestine. And thats mostly because they get flagged to oblivion because of the obvious overrepresentation of zionist voices on this platform and the tech community

Re: Miguel de Icaza shadowbanned from X for posting about Gaza

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Post by quotz »

za3faran wrote: post #40
quotz wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My opinion is that he got seriously blackmailed. Musk meets Netayahu 27 Nov, and on 12 December its announced that SpaceX loses appeal for 1B in funding from the FCC regarding Starlink. There's probably lots of variables for losing the appeal, but considering how far the isreali lobby goes I really wont be surprised that they had influence, considering he was making Starlink available in Gaza for free. And this is ju…

Exactly. God knows what happened behind closed doors. I hope the truth emerges one day.

I doubt that the truth will come out
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