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Post by ancapsfascists »

pjc50 wrote: post #359
smoldesu wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Destroying Twitter should be a liberal effort. It's frankly sickening to step back and consider how much influential public discourse took place on a private platform. If you're a classical liberal, implementing protocols like ActivityPub is essential to promote competition across apps and platforms. Even if you're a conservative, it should be readily apparent how centralizing our communications power is a bad idea.…

If you're a "classical liberal", whatever that means, surely you're not in favour of randomly destroying things that work and that people are happily using, by state action, in favour of an unpopular alternative?

Classical liberals are typified by Reagan style republicans and the current democratic party - business first, pro capital, infinite growth party.

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Post by lapcat »

jacquesm wrote: post #367
lapcat wrote: post #243

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> I don't remember posts about Putin, someone who's actually dangerous, getting such ridiculous replies Well, Putin never had a fan base on HN. There wasn't anyone arguing "Putin is actually the savior of humanity". There's no "I told you so" aspect to Putin.

Unfortunately, Putin does have a fanbase on HN.

There are some Russian users of course. But the contingent seems pretty small compared to the Musk fans.

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Post by dawnerd »

cddotdotslash wrote: post #186
hobbitstan wrote: post #74

Interesting that Gettr, Parler and Gab aren't included in the ban list. The linktr.ee ban isn't a great idea, many artists use it to promote themselves on various non-SM platforms.

TikTok is also suspiciously missing.

But not surprising. Tesla does have TikTok integration in the cars. I suspect Elon is a fan of it and doesn’t see it as a real threat. People are just not going to move from Twitter to TikTok.

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Post by manderley »

drdaeman wrote: post #170
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…

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…

We have to "commend" him for saying that he wanted to buy Twitter and then (after some legal troubles) following through? Why?

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Post by KerrAvon »

tlogan wrote: post #117
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…

I genuinely believed that he would try to allow more free speech on Twitter. There was a small chance that the experiment will succeed. I guess he never wanted that: he just lied. But why?

Asking why he lied is like asking why the clouds rained on you. This is exactly the same mistake people make with Trump: you think he’s actually a human being who feels emotions and responds to them like the rest of us. But he’s really a sociopathic narcissist. They aren’t like us; they are purely driven by the drive for adulation and attention, and their lives as presented to us are fictional to the extent that they can get away with it.

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Post by inquirerGeneral »

pixelmonkey wrote: post #208

Worth mentioning that this policy might have suspended John Carmack for this tweet a couple days ago, announcing his resignation from Meta: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1603931899810004994... This is a very, very, very bad policy and shows with absolute clarity that Twitter is far from a free speech platform. Which deeply saddens me. Imagine how absurd it would be for Reddit or Hacker News to have a polic…

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

Yoric wrote: post #218
tlogan wrote: post #117

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I genuinely believed that he would try to allow more free speech on Twitter. There was a small chance that the experiment will succeed. I guess he never wanted that: he just lied. But why?

I've been wondering whether he's planning to run for some office (in South Africa? US?). At least, that would make his burning through $44Bn, lying so much and voluntarily antagonizing/ostracizing "the Libs" somewhat logical. edit: Alright, here is my latest idle theory: he wants (or wanted at some point) to become a news mogul and a US Republican kingmaker. And since Twitter is (for many people) the news: 1. buying…

I think he's hoping for a run in 2028. Possibly 2024, but that's a little close.

Buying Twitter would be a strategic campaign move.

Of course a lot of people now realise he's an asshole, and he's likely to lose a lot of money on the deal. So maybe that plan won't work out.

It's been a real case study in self-harm. Many who were neutral or positive before - because of Tesla, SpaceX, and some of his other projects - are now varying shades of hostile.

And he's unlikely to win over the fascist vote, because Flynn is going to have that locked up when he emerges from behind Trump's shadow.

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Post by Barrin92 »

friendlypeg wrote: post #41

Can't wait to see how the Elon lackeys - Marc, Lex, and Jason etc. going to bend over backwards defending this.

The Randian hero worship from people like that is actually one of the saddest things about this. It's so pathetic to see people, many of which you would think are accomplished enough to not degrade themselves like this, attach themselves to Musk like remora to a whale.
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