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Why? I’m definitely not pro Nazi and I am a minority. But why is posting hate speech a bridge too far for a “free speech” hard liner as Musk pretends to be?

pubby 4y ago
Musk wants advertiser money back.
nailer 4y ago
The swastika is associated with racial violence and violence is always something Musk has said he will not allow.
- scarface74 4y ago
  And claiming that an election was stolen that actually caused some idiots to storm a government building and putting the VP of the United States in danger is not associated with violence?
  - nailer 4y ago
    No, posting a flag of mass murderers is different from encouraging people to protest. I don’t care about the left/right politics, but since you may: bring consistent here also allows BLM to keep posting on Twitter despite people being shot by extremists.
- quantified 4y ago
  Interesting. Look up the Boer flag, of Musk's South Africa.
ZeroGravitas 4y ago
I believe Kanye posted some private comms between them on Parler or Truth Social. I've not read them but it might include some of his reasoning.
- ethanbond 4y ago
  Private comms between Musk and Kanye was Musk quoting the Bible (?) as giving him the authority to decide whether Kanye's Swastikarofdavid is "love" or not. No joke.
ethanbond 4y ago
Because Elon doesn't actually have an ounce of moral intelligence. Like virtually every other thing that has happened with this whole takeover, he appears not to have really thought about the problem for more than 30 seconds. This was evident even before a "tricky" case came up. His opening salvo was "free speech reigns," then immediately "well, law of the land matters," then "wait I guess I didn't think about how to handle variations in laws..."
- raspberry1337 4y ago
  It's humoring how many geniuses there are on the internet with the full authority to denounce the intelligence of the worlds currently richest man.
  - ethanbond 4y ago
    Yep, there's never before been a rich man with a loose grasp on morality, nor a poor man with a strong one. History shows that this just doesn't happen.
    - raspberry1337 4y ago
      None said anything about morality. You seem very intelligent.
  - the_only_law 4y ago
    It’s also humoring just how many stans there are on HN.
    - raspberry1337 4y ago
      Who would have thought that the engineer who initiatived and led both Tesla and SpaceX would have a lot of fans on an engineering forum
  - lukas099 4y ago
    This is ridiculous. We should only air our opinions about people poorer than us?
rsynnott 4y ago
I assume it's finally beginning to dawn on Elon that maybe everyone on twitter won't pay $8 to see a sea of swastikas, and he will need those advertisers after all.

pubby 4y ago

Musk wants advertiser money back.

nailer 4y ago

The swastika is associated with racial violence and violence is always something Musk has said he will not allow.

scarface74 4y ago
And claiming that an election was stolen that actually caused some idiots to storm a government building and putting the VP of the United States in danger is not associated with violence?
- nailer 4y ago
  No, posting a flag of mass murderers is different from encouraging people to protest. I don’t care about the left/right politics, but since you may: bring consistent here also allows BLM to keep posting on Twitter despite people being shot by extremists.
quantified 4y ago
Interesting. Look up the Boer flag, of Musk's South Africa.

ZeroGravitas 4y ago

I believe Kanye posted some private comms between them on Parler or Truth Social. I've not read them but it might include some of his reasoning.

ethanbond 4y ago
Private comms between Musk and Kanye was Musk quoting the Bible (?) as giving him the authority to decide whether Kanye's Swastikarofdavid is "love" or not. No joke.

ethanbond 4y ago

Because Elon doesn't actually have an ounce of moral intelligence. Like virtually every other thing that has happened with this whole takeover, he appears not to have really thought about the problem for more than 30 seconds. This was evident even before a "tricky" case came up. His opening salvo was "free speech reigns," then immediately "well, law of the land matters," then "wait I guess I didn't think about how to handle variations in laws..."

raspberry1337 4y ago
It's humoring how many geniuses there are on the internet with the full authority to denounce the intelligence of the worlds currently richest man.
- ethanbond 4y ago
  Yep, there's never before been a rich man with a loose grasp on morality, nor a poor man with a strong one. History shows that this just doesn't happen.
  - raspberry1337 4y ago
    None said anything about morality. You seem very intelligent.
- the_only_law 4y ago
  It’s also humoring just how many stans there are on HN.
  - raspberry1337 4y ago
    Who would have thought that the engineer who initiatived and led both Tesla and SpaceX would have a lot of fans on an engineering forum
- lukas099 4y ago
  This is ridiculous. We should only air our opinions about people poorer than us?

rsynnott 4y ago

I assume it's finally beginning to dawn on Elon that maybe everyone on twitter won't pay $8 to see a sea of swastikas, and he will need those advertisers after all.