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Oh come on, that’s like saying someone isn’t being tortured, just temporarily having their pleasure removed until they confess.
by mwint 4y ago
Oh come on, that’s like saying someone isn’t being tortured, just temporarily having their pleasure removed until they confess.
- klyrs 4y agoIs it actually anything like torture, though?
- GaylordTuring 4y agoThat's often not the point of analogies like this. So for the analog to be valid, the seriousness of the situation described doesn't have to be on similar levels. If you look up the definition of "analogy" on merriam-webster.com it says: "resemblance in some [my emphasis] particulars between things otherwise unlike"
- klyrs 4y agoYeah, I know what an analogy is. It's a bloody stupid analogy because it's making a mountain out of a mole hill, when we all know that moles dig tunnels.
- encryptluks2 4y agoNo, that is like saying someone should remove some obscene clothing before entering a private establishment and here you are comparing it to be tortured.
- fazfq 4y ago"You may not enter" is the literal definition of banning someone
- paulmd 4y agoIf you can come back by removing the offending element, you aren't really banned. "No offensive t-shirts" is not the same thing as being banned lol
- unsupp0rted 4y agoIf the offending element is one's personality or one's beliefs, then yes, one can come back by removing that, but it's the same thing as not coming back.
- joshuamorton 4y ago"You cannot believe in Christianity" and "You cannot hold mass in my house" are two very different statements.
- mwint 4y agoHow about if AT&T said “you cannot pray over our telephone lines”? Because that seems closer to what’s happening here.
- ilyt 4y agoTwitter have almost 400 million users. It's not "your house" at this point, it's public space.
- joshuamorton 4y agoSo at what number of attendees does my house become public space?
- encryptluks2 4y agoNever because you own it and have rights just like the Supreme Court has established that most private businesses has the right to kick people out. If people don't like that then they should petition the government to take over Twitter and make it a utility or government service.
- jonny_eh 4y agoRemoving a tweet and removing a belief are two very different things.
- freejazz 4y agoNo shirt, no shoes, no service.
- concinds 4y agoIt seems you're coming at it from the other side. If it were up to me, I'd remove the "lock" feature that seems too much like a struggle session (as noted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33371795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33371795), and just have tweets be taken down without needing users to admit guilt. I also would oppose banning either Kanye or the Bee. But if someone is arguing that it was a ban, and that it shows Musk unbanned them and is lying, then that's wrong. I was addressing that argument.