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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by andirk on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:12PM (#33379177)
Yeah wtf would anyone touting freedom of speech bring up China in any way? Tencent, owner of WeChat, said they'd block NBA Houston Rockets games because one of the Rockets' managers tweeted "Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong." [0]. Granted, I got kicked off of twitter for "misinformation" for saying "some day we'll all die".

[0] https://www.npr.org/2019/10/07/767805936/houston-rockets-gm-...

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by bagels on Friday October 28, 2022 @08:37PM (#33379745)
It's two different things: WeChat has a bunch of integrated apps, that's part of what Musk's vision is. The free speech issue is separate from the similarities to WeChat.
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by hedora on Friday October 28, 2022 @10:59PM (#33380575)
How could free speech possibly remain separate at WeChat levels of consolidation?

You spout wrongthink in a twitter DM, and now your bank, credit card, email, private messages, facebook, rail pass, amazon, uber, government ID, school accounts, craigslist and tinder are permabanned.

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by oneeyedpigeon on Saturday October 29, 2022 @07:40AM (#33383148)
It's difficult to make a judgement on "some day we'll all die" without context. It might've been part of an insightful discussion about the potential of immortality or it could have been directed at the parent of a school-shooting victim.
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