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Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by mikkergp »

phphphphp wrote: post #51

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598843310042279936 Jack was, quite famously, half-assing his leadership of Twitter for years. There was no secret, it was constantly discussed here on HN: how Jack’s inability to lead can be described as an “amazing subplot” rather than an embarrassing stain on Jack is beyond me — I guess because Elon loves Jack, this has to be framed positively?

This part is weird, and it seems like there was an agreement between Musk and Matt not to smear Jack in this process. But if you really think there’s massive corruption at Twitter I don’t know how you think Jack should be absolved.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by mikkergp »

taolegal wrote: post #64
whateveracct wrote: post #53

HN is a weird place. Feels like the loudest political voices are alt-right-adjacent nowadays. Just yesterday I had to wade through Q-level talk about Balenciaga being the true villain in society (one user literally said the Latin translation of Balenciaga had occult meanings). It's just so surprising to see Tucker Carlson's outrage machine consistently make rounds in HM comments. I guess he recovered from that Jon St…

> Q-level talk It's disappointing how there's real stunningly outrageous stuff and you just brush it away under the umbrella of Q. Epstein was revealed to have an ungodly long list of elites from around the world visiting his island full of minors that were sexually abused and trafficked. Hollywood openly cooperated with Weinstein for decades only for it to all explode. All were liberal, metropolitan social circles t…

Pedophiles are bad period they’re a problem everywhere and it’s weird to try and make it partisan.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by nells »

dekhn wrote: post #66

It's still kind of odd to think that you can be an in-favor executive at a company, then somebody else can buy your company, fire you, and go back and read all your work emails (many of which would be extremely sensitive) and share it with journalists who then screenshot it and share it with the world on the same platform that employed you! This was always a possibility (and a probability- my friend was a lawyer who…

They are not your emails, and you shouldn’t discuss personally sensitive matters using email accounts that don’t belong to you.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by fzeroracer »

Okay, since this is going to get unflagged I guess let me make this as clear as possible. See this tweet [0]? These are example tweets that people are complaining was unfairly censored by the government (despite him later saying there's zero evidence of this [1]).

Now those tweets are still visible. You can go to archive.org and see them right now. What are these 'censored' tweets? They're photos of Hunter Biden's cock, naked or otherwise nonsensical stuff. This is literally one of the major points of this entire 'twitter files' stuff. This is what people are complaining is being suppressed.

I don't believe a picture of his dick is a matter of public affairs. Moreover, it doesn't belong on Twitter for a whole host of reasons entirely irrelevant to the story Taibbi is trying to push. Literally nothing else came out of the Hunter Biden laptop shit because there's nothing there beyond tabloid level nonsense. If this is somehow breaking news on HN then what has this site become?

[0] https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064?s=20&...

[1] https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598833927405215744?s=20&...

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Post by folkrav »

Dig1t wrote: post #16

I'm a moderate, not a Democrat and not a Republican. I think people on the left have a blind spot here, that the more suppression they use, the more division they create, and the more moderates and people on the right grow to resent them. I would have identified as a Democrat on pretty much every issue, but this authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas has just pushed me away from that side completely. At this p…

The whole idea that there are "sides" to be had is IMHO extremely sad in the first place. This whole bipartisan system bullshit is causing so much damage, and its been going on since at least the 70s.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Dig1t wrote: post #16

I'm a moderate, not a Democrat and not a Republican. I think people on the left have a blind spot here, that the more suppression they use, the more division they create, and the more moderates and people on the right grow to resent them. I would have identified as a Democrat on pretty much every issue, but this authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas has just pushed me away from that side completely. At this p…

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Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by lapcat »

phphphphp wrote: post #51

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598843310042279936 Jack was, quite famously, half-assing his leadership of Twitter for years. There was no secret, it was constantly discussed here on HN: how Jack’s inability to lead can be described as an “amazing subplot” rather than an embarrassing stain on Jack is beyond me — I guess because Elon loves Jack, this has to be framed positively?

Agreed. It was obvious that Jack had been checked out of Twitter for a long time and focused almost entirely on Square/Block.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by raphlinus »

dekhn wrote: post #66

It's still kind of odd to think that you can be an in-favor executive at a company, then somebody else can buy your company, fire you, and go back and read all your work emails (many of which would be extremely sensitive) and share it with journalists who then screenshot it and share it with the world on the same platform that employed you! This was always a possibility (and a probability- my friend was a lawyer who…

> If Elon thinks this is some sort of big shock that will cause people to get excited.... I can't really see why.

Of course people will get excited. If Elon were to flog a "Hunter Biden's laptop" story that turned out to be that its hard drive was 4500 RPM when the SKU was marketed as 5400, and that capacity was measured in gigabytes rather than gibibytes, people would still get excited. Facts have little to do with any of this, it's all a post-modern, post-truth exercise in perceptions.

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