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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by oniMaker on Sunday November 20, 2016 @02:54PM (#13000797)
Not to mention the fact that Twitter will censor views that it does not agree with. Don't support companies that engage in censorship.

There's already an alternative available, and it's growing: https://gab.ai

It doesn't solve the problem of giving your data to a company, but it's a hell of a lot more open and inclusive than any other platform.

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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by mikeyouse on Sunday November 20, 2016 @03:07PM (#13000870)
Gab is predictably filled with Nazis, which isn't unrelated to that idiotic Pepe frog they use as a logo. Who would willingly go there?
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by rvcamo on Monday November 21, 2016 @02:08AM (#13003734)
This is categorically false. People who love and want to defend free speech go there. If you want to continue living in a bubble world, stay on Twitter.
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by corndoge on Sunday November 20, 2016 @03:12PM (#13000900)
Pepe is not a Nazi symbol.
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by mikeyouse on Sunday November 20, 2016 @03:19PM (#13000947)
It doesn't have to be a 'Nazi symbol' for self professed Nazis and white nationalists to identify with it. Check out the mentions of any prominent Jewish person on twitter, it's a cesspool of Pepe frogs telling them to get in ovens or whatever other idiocy they've come up with today.

Case in point, David Duke saying "you can't zog the frog":

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/77773964892367...

ZOG = anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that the Jews secretly run most countries behind the scenes.

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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by oniMaker on Sunday November 20, 2016 @03:12PM (#13000893)
People who believe in freedom of speech.
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by cyorir on Sunday November 20, 2016 @04:40PM (#13001416)
Does Twitter have no right to freedom of speech, when there are alternatives to it? If they don't want to be associated with white nationalists, then why should they allow themselves to be?
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by oniMaker on Sunday November 20, 2016 @10:48PM (#13003005)
That's what I'm saying. They have rights to their platform, and we have the right to use it or not. That's why I linked to an alternative.
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by mikeyouse on Sunday November 20, 2016 @04:04PM (#13001216)
If the difference between Twitter's speech limits and Gab's is that the latter allows Nazis and harassment, I think you'll find most prefer "less" free speech.
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by oniMaker on Sunday November 20, 2016 @10:48PM (#13003007)
Unfortunately, yes. Most people do not understand the importance of protecting even the speech they disagree with.
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by mikeyouse on Sunday November 20, 2016 @11:51PM (#13003254)
It appears many don't understand the difference between protecting and amplifying either. Alas.
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by Bud on Sunday November 20, 2016 @03:14PM (#13000917)
On the contrary, we should support Twitter more after their recent laudable efforts in banning neo-Nazi accounts. There is no freedom to spout hate speech on someone else's platform.
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by Jerry2 on Sunday November 20, 2016 @07:53PM (#13002279)
That's pretty funny considering that Twitter verified Muslim Brotherhood's offical account... which is a terrorist organization.

http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2016/11/twitter-verifies-m...

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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by oniMaker on Sunday November 20, 2016 @10:47PM (#13003000)
Exactly. They get to choose what's on their platform, and we get to choose whether to use it.
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by vacri on Sunday November 20, 2016 @07:12PM (#13002106)
Expecting a tolerant person to be blindly tolerant (of anything) is an adolescent argument. Tolerance is not a binary state, and has never meant a binary state.
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by legodt on Sunday November 20, 2016 @03:44PM (#13001089)
why are there so many neo-nazi sympathizers on hackernews...
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by zimpenfish on Monday November 21, 2016 @04:30AM (#13004184)
I'm not sure it's "neo-nazi sympathisers" as much as "oblivious young white male libertarians who don't realise the bubble they live in." Admittedly they do tend to sound the same when it comes to "censorship" but I think the distinction helps.
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by itwaseverything on Sunday November 20, 2016 @07:57PM (#13002298)
Talk about proving his point... or is this sarcasm?
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by legodt on Sunday November 20, 2016 @08:17PM (#13002368)
No, I meant it without irony
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by riffic on Sunday November 20, 2016 @03:02PM (#13000838)
Is gab.ai an implementation of OStatus?

https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/

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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by oniMaker on Sunday November 20, 2016 @03:09PM (#13000883)
Not to my knowledge. The platform is very young though. You could propose this idea to the founder.
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Re:Let’s replace Twitter with something much better by Torgo on Monday November 21, 2016 @01:54PM (#13008036)
No, it doesn't appear to implement any of OStatus.
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