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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by jrsj on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:02AM (#31026403)
Hacker News isn’t comparable to Twitter. They’re not doing coordinated censorship with other big tech companies or working on behalf of intelligence agencies to spy on their users etc. Twitter & other large corps aren’t just private companies because they have such strong relationships with the government. Politicians also threaten to penalize them for not doing censorship the way that they want, so they aren’t really acting in a free market regardless.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by jameshart on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:09AM (#31026481)
> They’re not doing coordinated censorship with other big tech companies

You ever notice how you’re not permitted to comment on Y-combinator company announcement posts on HN?

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by saagarjha on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:38AM (#31026814)
You can comment on anything but job ads on this site.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by jrsj on Thursday April 14, 2022 @02:18PM (#31031062)
Not really in the same ballpark as simultaneously banning an individual or a news story across every social media platform
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by x86_64Ubuntu on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:43AM (#31026872)
People keep moving the goalposts and it never ends up making sense. The fact of the matter is that HN has moderation which people enjoy. You can't come in here talking about whatever you want, however you want. The same goes for Twitter. Trying to split them apart by size, audience or whatever is meaningless.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by overrun11 on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:25AM (#31027458)
People like the moderation policies of Hacker News but not the ones of Twitter. This isn't some grand hypocrisy.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by jrsj on Thursday April 14, 2022 @02:11PM (#31030922)
HN has generally good & reasonable moderation and isn’t engaged in blatant political censorship, it’s not that complicated.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by ece on Friday April 15, 2022 @01:02PM (#31042627)
HN is a fraction of Twitter's size, and moderation isn't going to scale linearly. I doubt anybody, including Elon could really solve this problem apart from taking the reddit approach.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by philistine on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:08AM (#31026474)
Looking at what is not allowed on HN, the same things are disallowed here. How is that not the same?

Elon will either let Twitter be run over by political spam and see it lose its value, or realize he needs to healthily stifle some speech to maintain his investment.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by phkahler on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:28AM (#31026677)
>> Looking at what is not allowed on HN, the same things are disallowed here. How is that not the same?

Not true. If Donald trump wanted to post here on tech or business I think he'd be allowed. The ban hammer might come quick not because of his views, but his inflamitory style. Twitter sensors ideas, not language.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by philjohn on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:56AM (#31027077)
Do they? In my experience they don't - e.g. the lab leak hypothesis.

If you hypothesise about it, that's A OK, if you claim that it's 100% verified, that's not, because it's not been proven one way or the other.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by phkahler on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:03PM (#31031738)
>> If you hypothesise about it, that's A OK, if you claim that it's 100% verified, that's not, because it's not been proven one way or the other.

But what is used as the ground truth? For the lab leak it will likely never be known. Even so, if Twitter is declaring certain parties as authorities on subjects that's not good - particularly in highly politicized situations.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by themitigating on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:51AM (#31026993)
What idea have they censored?
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by phkahler on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:04PM (#31031759)
>> What idea have they censored?

Why did they cancel Donald Trump?

BTW I'm not supporting him, just pointing out censorship.

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