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The subtitle of the article is "Elon Musk's "free speech" social media platform banned a number of accounts recently critical of Israel." Wasn't Elon widely de
by runjake 3y ago
The subtitle of the article is "Elon Musk's "free speech" social media platform banned a number of accounts recently critical of Israel."
Wasn't Elon widely deemed an antisemite last month?
Edit: I wasn't being tongue-in-cheek. Perhaps we should not attribute to malice what we can attribute to incompetence -- especially in Elon's case.
- Stranger43 3y agoyes and this is likely twitter overcompensating after that fallout. Basically what this show is that firing your entire moderation team leads to inconsistent moderation as modern automation simply isn't up to the task of dealing with high-emotion topics.
- aredox 3y agoHe visited Israel a month ago. This man has the ideological orientation of a windvane.
- asylteltine 3y agoHe visited because he was called out for openly supporting complete psychos like Louis farakan. His advertisers increasingly wanted to disassociate with people like that so he was doing damage control.
- CamperBob2 3y agoHe's a puzzle. He's more than smart enough to understand that for someone in his position, the only winning move is to STFU. Yet his rational side always seems to lose these battles.
- aredox 3y agoHe's an idiot's idea of a smart person.
- IntelMiner 3y ago"He's more than smart enough to understand" Are you sure about that? Historical accounts of his actions and thoughts would disagree He famously wanted to move Paypal to Windows NT because "UNIX is for old junk mainframes!"
- numbers_guy 3y agoPuzzle? I think he is a normal man with emotions and a moral compass of some kind. Many immoral people would STFU and tacitly support the status quo, but I think Musk is better that that, despite the hate that he gets.
- TerrifiedMouse 3y agoI think he can’t STFU. He needs constant public validation and praise. Frankly, I think he never will. 20 years from now, if he is still alive and wealthy, we will still be hearing from him - long after his peers have gone into quiet retirements.
- throw310822 3y agoElon Musk has a lot to learn about driving a media company. Remember when he was going around saying "we're building the most advanced factory in the world, people have no idea" and then he spent a year sleeping on the factory floor to fix the mess he created? Same thing.
- themaninthedark 3y agoI would say that those going around brandishing the titles of Nazi and antisemitic as cudgel to use on their ideological opponents are more likely to be the ones who have changed stances. And I say this as someone who has disliked Musk since his comments during the cave rescue.