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Maybe, but the last straw for me on that platform was preventing tweets from linking to arbitrary, non-doxxing Mastodon profiles (try it and see). I tested it t

Maybe, but the last straw for me on that platform was preventing tweets from linking to arbitrary, non-doxxing Mastodon profiles (try it and see). I tested it to confirm and deactivated my account afterwards. Who would want to be on a social network like that?

notinfuriated 4y ago
Why didn't you leave when they blocked tweets that linked to the Hunter Biden laptop story?
- RavingGoat 4y ago
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- godelski 4y ago
  You're allowed to be upset about more than one thing.
  - notinfuriated 4y ago
    Yes, you absolutely are. Nothing in my comment suggested you are not. The comment I responded to specifically was upset about censorship targeted at tweeting Mastodon links and not another version of censorship which came in the exact same form but targeted X links. I just gave X a name. I find it somewhat absurd that a person would become indignant when the link is Y instead of X.
    - revetkn 4y ago
    - godelski 4y ago
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        dang 4y ago
        Hey, you broke the site guidelines exceedingly badly in this and other comments in this thread. We have to ban accounts that do that. I'm not going to ban you for it because I understand that people go on tilt sometimes—it happens. But if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules in the future, we'd appreciate it.
- kennywinker 4y ago
  Because it was a dubiously sourced story at the height of a highly chaotic election campaign. You can see how that might be something a platform would want to suppress, not because they’re Democrat sleeper agents - but because they don’t wanna be responsible for swaying the election because of fake news.
  - NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
    >Because it was a dubiously sourced story Fake news. >You can see how that might be something a platform would want to suppress, not because they’re Democrat sleeper agents They suppressed it because they were very awake Democrat agents. >but because they don’t wanna be responsible for swaying the election because of fake news. No they wanted to deliberately sway the election, because of their partisan alliance. You can read the story here: Part 1: Matt Taibbi: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394 Part 2: Bari Weiss: https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600 https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600 Part 3: Matt Taibbi: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281 Part 4: Michael Shellenberger: https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/1601720455005511680 https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/16017204550055116... Part 5: Bari Weiss: https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515 https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515
    - mcv 4y ago
      > >Because it was a dubiously sourced story > Fake news. Same thing. But the Hunter Biden laptop story was not only fake news, it was completely irrelevant, because Hunter Biden wasn't running for office, and unlike Trump's children, Biden's children don't work for him. And yet the fake story was leveraged by political operatives to sway the election. After all the issues of fake news swaying the 2016 election, Twitter decided the responsible thing to do for them was not to be complicit in spreading fake news this time.
      - NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
- YeahNO 4y ago
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  - notinfuriated 4y ago
    That's very brave of you to post a homophobic comment here.
    - NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
      Absolutely nothing brave about regurgitating Democrat rhetoric on HN: https://i.imgur.com/taGzsZP.jpg https://i.imgur.com/taGzsZP.jpg To them there are no wrong actions (homophobia, body shaming et), only wrong targets (their tribe). Now telling the truth in the face of that propaganda...
    - YeahNO 4y ago
      Sorry? Could you please identify what, specifically, you found homophobic about the comment? I think your comment reflects more upon you than it does upon my comment.
      - notinfuriated 4y ago

notinfuriated 4y ago

Why didn't you leave when they blocked tweets that linked to the Hunter Biden laptop story?

RavingGoat 4y ago
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godelski 4y ago
You're allowed to be upset about more than one thing.
- notinfuriated 4y ago
  Yes, you absolutely are. Nothing in my comment suggested you are not. The comment I responded to specifically was upset about censorship targeted at tweeting Mastodon links and not another version of censorship which came in the exact same form but targeted X links. I just gave X a name. I find it somewhat absurd that a person would become indignant when the link is Y instead of X.
  - revetkn 4y ago
  - godelski 4y ago
    - notinfuriated 4y ago
      - dang 4y ago
        Hey, you broke the site guidelines exceedingly badly in this and other comments in this thread. We have to ban accounts that do that. I'm not going to ban you for it because I understand that people go on tilt sometimes—it happens. But if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules in the future, we'd appreciate it.
kennywinker 4y ago
Because it was a dubiously sourced story at the height of a highly chaotic election campaign. You can see how that might be something a platform would want to suppress, not because they’re Democrat sleeper agents - but because they don’t wanna be responsible for swaying the election because of fake news.
- NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
  >Because it was a dubiously sourced story Fake news. >You can see how that might be something a platform would want to suppress, not because they’re Democrat sleeper agents They suppressed it because they were very awake Democrat agents. >but because they don’t wanna be responsible for swaying the election because of fake news. No they wanted to deliberately sway the election, because of their partisan alliance. You can read the story here: Part 1: Matt Taibbi: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394 Part 2: Bari Weiss: https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600 https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600 Part 3: Matt Taibbi: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281 Part 4: Michael Shellenberger: https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/1601720455005511680 https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/16017204550055116... Part 5: Bari Weiss: https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515 https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515
  - mcv 4y ago
    > >Because it was a dubiously sourced story > Fake news. Same thing. But the Hunter Biden laptop story was not only fake news, it was completely irrelevant, because Hunter Biden wasn't running for office, and unlike Trump's children, Biden's children don't work for him. And yet the fake story was leveraged by political operatives to sway the election. After all the issues of fake news swaying the 2016 election, Twitter decided the responsible thing to do for them was not to be complicit in spreading fake news this time.
    - NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
YeahNO 4y ago
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- notinfuriated 4y ago
  That's very brave of you to post a homophobic comment here.
  - NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
    Absolutely nothing brave about regurgitating Democrat rhetoric on HN: https://i.imgur.com/taGzsZP.jpg https://i.imgur.com/taGzsZP.jpg To them there are no wrong actions (homophobia, body shaming et), only wrong targets (their tribe). Now telling the truth in the face of that propaganda...
  - YeahNO 4y ago
    Sorry? Could you please identify what, specifically, you found homophobic about the comment? I think your comment reflects more upon you than it does upon my comment.
    - notinfuriated 4y ago