Elon has decided not to join our board

Re:Elon has decided not to join our board by antattack on Monday April 11, 2022 @08:54AM (#30988007)

If you read what Musk says now or years ago he actually is very much for moderation, but not censorship or banning people of the platform. In a way Musk is for something similar to HN point system.

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Re:Elon has decided not to join our board by Vespasian on Monday April 11, 2022 @11:13AM (#30989933)

I get that, but the line between moderation and censorship is very culture and topic dependent.

That's obviously true for authoritarian countries like China but even in "the West" there are competing definitions of what constitutes free speech.

If you want to operate in those countries (at scale) you need to localize your moderation policies and therefore "take a stance". Cost of doing business globally.

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Re:Elon has decided not to join our board by smt88 on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:18PM (#30990941)

HN is a bad analogy because it has a lot of invisible moderation tools used by the all-powerful moderators, including:

- banning

- shadow-banning

- deleting offensive messages

- detaching off-topic threads

The only difference with HN is that their rules are different. Everything else is very similar to Twitter.

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Re:Elon has decided not to join our board by MrMan on Monday April 11, 2022 @05:14PM (#30995172)

Hn is like Gab though, the users feel aligned with the management ideologically so they don't mind being censored by them.

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