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That's not it at all. Musk bought Twitter with the stated purpose of allowing free speech. If Musk bans some accounts while bringing back others, he's being a

That's not it at all. Musk bought Twitter with the stated purpose of allowing free speech. If Musk bans some accounts while bringing back others, he's being a giant hypocrite by not allowing all to speak freely.

metadat 4y ago
No kidding, he is an emotional character and answers to questions vary wildly by the day and hour. In other words, as you've intuited: a "hypocrite".
codefreeordie 4y ago
- bediger4000 4y ago
  Sure, and I still say that. It's just that criticism of Musk on hypocrisy grounds is justified, because he bought Twitter to bring back free speech or something like that, which includes crimethinc, and Andy Ngo. Free speech is a uniform criteria, not a collection of special cases. The latter is hypocrisy. There's general agreement on what "free speech" means. If Musk wants to claim free speech moral high ground, he has to put up with Chad Loder and crimethinc and Evon Latrail. If Musk bans accounts that he doesn't like that's fine, he owns that particular printing press. But he doesn't get to claim "free speech" and ban accounts, too. That's the very definition of hypocrisy.
  - codefreeordie 4y ago
    - tovej 4y ago
      Are the conservative voices advocating for violence against LGBTQ+, ethnic minorities, and critics? Then it's not really hypocrisy but completely valid and according to the policy of most of the platforms.
      - codefreeordie 4y ago
        Heya @dang, is this what you were referring to when you said that you moderated without regard to viewpoint? Deleting 100% of posts from all on one side while boosting even pure personal attacks from your side? Please read those guidelines you keep posting at people and then consider actually following them.
    - bediger4000 4y ago
      Stay on topic, please. We're talking Musk here, not every media outlet. This IS hacker news,
      - codefreeordie 4y ago
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- BulgarianIdiot 4y ago
  > It's a private company, if you don't like how they moderate, you can start your own company and moderate it the way you want. Sure. It's a private company that no longer has the support of half of its advertisers, also private companies. Which means Twitter is going bankrupt entirely through neutral market mechanics. So be it. The real puzzler here is why did Elon insist shooting himself in both feet.
licebmi__at__ 4y ago
More than being a hypocrite, he's being partisan liar. The "I'm a centrist" kind of person always are, and it's important that people know and can see through their lies.

metadat 4y ago

No kidding, he is an emotional character and answers to questions vary wildly by the day and hour. In other words, as you've intuited: a "hypocrite".

codefreeordie 4y ago

bediger4000 4y ago
Sure, and I still say that. It's just that criticism of Musk on hypocrisy grounds is justified, because he bought Twitter to bring back free speech or something like that, which includes crimethinc, and Andy Ngo. Free speech is a uniform criteria, not a collection of special cases. The latter is hypocrisy. There's general agreement on what "free speech" means. If Musk wants to claim free speech moral high ground, he has to put up with Chad Loder and crimethinc and Evon Latrail. If Musk bans accounts that he doesn't like that's fine, he owns that particular printing press. But he doesn't get to claim "free speech" and ban accounts, too. That's the very definition of hypocrisy.
- codefreeordie 4y ago
  - tovej 4y ago
    Are the conservative voices advocating for violence against LGBTQ+, ethnic minorities, and critics? Then it's not really hypocrisy but completely valid and according to the policy of most of the platforms.
    - codefreeordie 4y ago
      Heya @dang, is this what you were referring to when you said that you moderated without regard to viewpoint? Deleting 100% of posts from all on one side while boosting even pure personal attacks from your side? Please read those guidelines you keep posting at people and then consider actually following them.
  - bediger4000 4y ago
    Stay on topic, please. We're talking Musk here, not every media outlet. This IS hacker news,
    - codefreeordie 4y ago
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BulgarianIdiot 4y ago
> It's a private company, if you don't like how they moderate, you can start your own company and moderate it the way you want. Sure. It's a private company that no longer has the support of half of its advertisers, also private companies. Which means Twitter is going bankrupt entirely through neutral market mechanics. So be it. The real puzzler here is why did Elon insist shooting himself in both feet.

licebmi__at__ 4y ago

More than being a hypocrite, he's being partisan liar. The "I'm a centrist" kind of person always are, and it's important that people know and can see through their lies.