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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by rosenjcb on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:25PM (#31157104)
Does anyone else feel like he's going to start doing petty shit like banning people he doesn't like (e.g. that musk flight tracker account)? He talks a lot about free speech but he has a track record of limiting speech on the platform (blocking multiple people) and off (making the founders of Tesla sign a hush contract).
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by thepasswordis on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:41PM (#31157362)
As opposed to petty things like banning the sitting president of the united states?
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by rootusrootus on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:01PM (#31157672)
Why should a politician get special privileges?
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by rosenjcb on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:48PM (#31157473)
I'm confused, are you talking about banning Trump (after he lost the election)? I'm not saying the decision is right or wrong, but Twitter thought a long time about it. I'm pretty sure the board wanted him banned even earlier, but they waited for the right moment.
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by dragonwriter on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:18PM (#31157916)
> If he was anyone else he would've been banned a dozen times over.

If he was anyone else, Twitter wouldn't have rewritten its rules specifically to retroactively excuse it's history of not enforcing them against him, before yeaes later, after he lost reelection, finally seeing it's interests no longer served by bending over to enable him.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by thepasswordis on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:41PM (#31158221)
>He led an insurrection against the current government and called for violence many times

A case which of course not only has twitter been unable to make, but which his opposition party has also been unable to make as well.

I would ask you to link me to the places where he is calling for an "insurrection" (and not a protest), but conveniently the account has been removed, making it much more difficult to do.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by lambic2 on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:53PM (#31158371)
This documentary might help you see its case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVUs4dS30c0
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by mardifoufs on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:41PM (#31158213)
They didn't ban the taliban leaders accounts when they took over Kabul either. And trust me, they were fully open about who they were.
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by clay10 on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:09PM (#31157780)
It would be contradicting everything hes currently saying. I don't think him blocking people from his account is indicative that he would ban those same people from the platform, nor do I consider it "limiting speech on the platform".
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by darknavi on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:39PM (#31157312)
Perhaps. But it's his (or his investors) 40 billion to burn. I'd hope that spending that much money makes you think twice about being a petty ass.
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by rosenjcb on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:46PM (#31157438)
His whole life he's had to listen to shareholders. This is his one chance to just say "Fuck it" and just do whatever he wants. I would hope the businessman and him would prevent him from doing this. However like most gag orders he imposes, it would be completely hidden from us. He won't be tweeting about it.
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by memish on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:28PM (#31158040)
No.

There is a difference between choosing who to follow, who to mute, who to block and Twitter deciding these things for you. He's advocating the former, not the latter.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by rosenjcb on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:06PM (#31158527)
Well, he decided that the whole world shouldn't hear about how the original founders of Tesla were removed and replaced with Musk. However, I can appreciate the distinction between muting people on your own threads vs removing people from the entire platform.
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by beeboop on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:59PM (#31157636)
No
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