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I'm not sure what the analogy is between DMs and soapboxes on street corners. In any case, I have to say censoring DMs is just too far for me to accept. I've
by TigeriusKirk 6y ago
I'm not sure what the analogy is between DMs and soapboxes on street corners.
In any case, I have to say censoring DMs is just too far for me to accept.
I've put in a decent amount of effort to curate my Twitter feed so that it's useful to me, but I can't keep using a service that will arbitrarily decide what private communications I'm allowed to have on their service. I guess I'm out, as much as I hate to do it.
- asdff 6y agoIf you don't like the rules, you are free to make your own platform. Like it or not, twitter can do whatever the hell they like with their website that they pay to host. That being said, if you posted something heinous here on HN and a moderator removed it, as they do every day, would you leave? Why haven't you left hacker news since that is what they do, just like twitter? Why haven't you left the internet entirely since any website owner can do whatever they like on their website? The idea that social media is some sort of public service beholden to the expectation of not ever touching their platform is just nuts to me, yet it's pervasive here on hackernews. The irony.
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