Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by phkahler on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:28AM
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>> 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.
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by philjohn on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:56AM
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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.
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by phkahler on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:03PM
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>> 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.
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by themitigating on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:51AM
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What idea have they censored?
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.