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They also don’t take down overt Nazi content anymore. Accounts with all the standard unambiguous Nazi symbologies and hate content about their typical targets w
by wahnfrieden 10mo ago
They also don’t take down overt Nazi content anymore. Accounts with all the standard unambiguous Nazi symbologies and hate content about their typical targets with associated slurs. With imagery of Hitler and praises of his policies. And calls for exterminating their perceived enemies and dehumanizing them as subhuman vermin. I’ve tried reporting many accounts and posts. It’s all protected now and boosted via payment.
- bakies 10mo agoWell the owner supports neo-nazi political parties, so that tracks.
- QuercusMax 10mo agoand of course he gave a very public Nazi salute
- zamadatix 10mo agoInviting a debate about what it was or wasn't only leads to a complete distractions over interpretation of a gesture when the dude already digs his own hole more deeply and more clearly in his feed anyways.
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- krona 10mo agoThere was no "Sieg Heil!" either so maybe you're right!
- wahnfrieden 10mo agoNone of these kind of examples hold up under scrutiny when observed in video. There's a reason they're all shared as still photos or tiny blips of video which never shows the full motion salute that's being claimed.
- bakies 10mo agoExcept Elon's
- bakies 10mo agohttps://i.imgur.com/5KwUcDV.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/5KwUcDV.mp4
- zamadatix 10mo agoMy comment was in response to the debate already starting so it's quite bold to claim no debate will be had (i.e. "debate" does not mean "something I personally am on the fence about", it's something other people will hold in response to your views). Whether there will or won't be debate about something is (thankfully) not something you or I get to declare. It just happens or doesn't, and it had already - and so it remains. I'm sure "The only people who say it's not are <x>" is an abominable thought pattern Nazis and similar types would love everyone to have. It makes for a great excuse to never weigh things on their merits, so I'm not sure why you feel the need to invoke it when the merits are already in your court. I can't look at these numbers https://i.imgur.com/hwm2bI5.png https://i.imgur.com/hwm2bI5.png and conclude most Americans are Nazi's instead of being willing to accept perhaps not everyone sees it the same way I do even if they don't like Nazis either. To any actual Nazi supporters out there: To hell with you To anybody who thinks either everyone agrees with what they see 100% of the time or they are a literal Nazi: To hell with you as well
- QuercusMax 10mo agoThe majority of people who had an opinion (32%) said it was either a Roman salute or a Nazi salute (which are the same thing). Lots of people had no idea (probably cuz they didn't pay attention). Only 19% said it was a "gesture from the heart", which is just parroting what Elon claimed, and I discount those folks as they are almost certainly crypto-Nazis. So yeah, I believe there are a LOT of Nazi-adjacent folks in this country: they're the ones who voted for Trump 3 times even after they knew he was a fascist piece of garbage.
- zamadatix 10mo agoA few minor cleanups - I personally don't think they change anything (really, it's these stats themselves that lack the ability to do that anyways) but want to note because this is the exact kind of Pandora's box opened with focusing on this specific incident: - Even assuming all who weren't sure (13%) should just be discounted as not having an opinion, like those who had not heard about it (22%), 32% is still not a majority of the remaining (100%-13%-22%) = 65%. 32% could have been a plurality of those with an opinion, but since you insisted on lumping things into 3 buckets of 32%, 35%, and remaining %, the remaining % of 33% would actually get the plurality of those who responded with opinions by this definition. N.b. If just read straight from the sheet, "A Nazi salute" would have already had a plurality. Though grouping like this is probably the more correct thing to do, it actually ends up significantly weakening the overall position of "more people agree than not" rather than strengthening it. - But, thankfully, "A Nazi Salute" + "A Roman Salute" would actually have been 32+2=34%, so plurality is at least restored by more than one whole percentage point (if you excluded the unsure or unknowing)! - However, a "Roman salute" (which is a bit of a farce of a name really) can't really be assumed to be fungible with the first option in this poll. If it were fully fungible, it could have been combined into that option. I.e. there's no way to tell which adults responding "A Roman salute" meant to be counted as "a general fascist salute, as the Nazis later adopted" or meant to be counted as "a non-fascist meaning of the salute, like the Bellamy salute was before WWII". So whichever wins this game of eeking out percentage points comes down to how each person wants to group these 2 percentage points. Shucks! - In reality, between error margins and bogus responses, this is about as close as one could expect to get for an equal 3 way split between "it was", "it wasn't", and "dunno/don't care", and pulling ahead a percentage point or two is really quite irrelevant beyond that it is, blatantly, not actually a majority that agree it was a Nazi-style salute. Even though I'm one who agrees with you Elon exhibits neo-nazi tendencies, the above just shows how we go from "Elon replies directly supporting someone in a thread about Hitler being right about the Jewish community" and similar things constantly for years to debating individual percentage points to try to claim our favorite sub-majority says he likely made a one off hand gesture 3 years ago. Now imagine I was actually a Nazi supporter walking into the thread - suddenly we've gone from talking about direct pro-Nazi statements and retweets constantly in his feed to a chance for me to debate with you whether the majority think he made a one off hand gesture 3 years ago? Anyone concerned with Musk's behavior should want to avoid this topic with a 20 foot pole so they can get straight to the real stuff. Also... I've run across a fair share of crypto lovers who turn out to be neo-nazish, but I'm not sure how you're piecing together that such a large portion of the population is a "crypto-Nazi" when something like only 28% of the population has crypto at all, let alone is a Nazi too. At least we're past "anyone who disagrees with my interpretations can only be doing so as a Nazi" though.
- skywhopper 10mo agoThere’s no debate.
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- slg 10mo agoI imagine I'm not the only one using HN less because both articles like this and comments like this are clearly being downvoted and/or flagged by a subset of users motivated by politics and the HN admin team seemingly doesn't consider that much of a problem. This story is incredibly relevant to a tech audience and this comment is objectively true and yet both are met with downvotes/flags. Whether HN wants to endorse a political ideology or not, their approach to handling these issues is a material support of the ideologies these stories and comments are criticizing.
- bakies 10mo agoI think there's brigading coming in to ruin these threads. I had several positive votes for a few minutes when stating a simple fact about Elon Musk and his support of neo-nazi political parties then -2 a min later edit: back to 14, kinda crazy
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- femiagbabiaka 10mo agoAnecdotally I think that moderation has been a lot more lenient when it comes to political content in the last year than in years prior. I have no hard evidence that this is actually the case, but I think especially pre-2020 I'd see very little political content on HN and now I see much more. It's also probably true that both liberals and conservatives have become even more polarized, leading to bad-faith flagging and downvoting, but I'm actually not sure what could be done about that, seems similar to anti-botting protections which is an arms race
- slg 10mo agoThis story belongs on this site regardless of politics. It is specifically about both AI and social media. Downvoting/flagging this story is much more politically motivated than posting/upvoting it.
- dzhiurgis 10mo agoWould be trivial to provide links to this content. Personally I've never seen anything like this.
- femiagbabiaka 10mo agoSearch for user h0wlingmutant
- dzhiurgis 10mo agoHuh? Nothing appears. Once again - links are trivial to share. Otherwise this is hearsay.
- wahnfrieden 10mo agoThey meant howlingmutant0 but I don't know which posts they refer to The ones I reported, I deleted the report emails so I can't help you at this moment. I don't know why you're surprised - you can go looking yourself and find examples
- dzhiurgis 10mo agoYeah I went thru his media. There was some backwards swastika that someone drawn on a synagogue. People were mocking the fact that idiots can't even draw that correctly.
- BigTTYGothGF 10mo agoAre you seriously asking for links to CSAM?
- dzhiurgis 10mo agoContext was nazi content. Apparently X is swimming in it. Yet nobody can provide evidence.
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- rsynnott 10mo ago> I’ve tried reporting many accounts and posts. I mean, honestly, you are wasting your time. Why would you expect the website run by the guy who likes giving Nazi salutes on TV to take down Nazi content? There's no point trying to engage with Twitter in good faith at this point; only real option is to stop using and move on (or hang out in the Nazi bar, I guess).