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It will never stop being funny to me how you can take an argument in American politics, directly apply it to the opposite side, and it will still be mostly true
by xk_id 2y ago
It will never stop being funny to me how you can take an argument in American politics, directly apply it to the opposite side, and it will still be mostly true.
- quantadev 2y agoWhich would imply conservatives are big censorship advocates? Maybe rethink that.
- xk_id 2y agoTwo obvious examples are the pushback against lgbt awareness and elon’s use of twitter to algorithmically suppress the reach of leftwing accounts.
- quantadev 2y agoI'm a Free Speech advocate in general, but after a decade of Censorship, Cancel Culture, and Shadow-banning of Conservatives (which Twitter DENIED they were doing, the entire time), I'm fully in favor of a full decade of payback from Elon. Let that sink in.
- xk_id 2y agoThe bottom line is that your first post is a mirror reflection of yourself. Beyond this, I don't really care how you excuse your hypocrisy.
- quantadev 2y agoGuilty as charged. Meant every word.
- jjulius 2y agoThat you had previously spent a good chunk of time arguing on HN in favor of free speech at all costs, only to turn around and wish for speech to be removed from those who you disagree with, is... wow. Literally nothing you have said can be taken in good faith or at face value at this point.
- quantadev 2y ago--OR-- Free Speech is about what the Gov't can do. Like the Democrats said for the past 10 years, platforms should be free to disallow 'bad' content. For 10 years Democrat-run Twitter treated Conservatives VERY badly. Now the only difference is "The Tables Have Turned". I hope Elon also follows the Democrat example by setting up Federal Gov't (headed by Trump) direct access to a portal on X.com (Twitter) which lets the Conservatives do what the Democrats were doing, and ban people form the platform for PURELY POLITICAL reasons. If it was legal when ya'll did it, it's legal when we do it.