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Re:Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand by vanilla_nut on Thursday December 29, 2022 @12:13PM (#34174904)
Sure, plenty of other carmakers have committed vile sins. But the Musk Twitter nonsense is very current, which makes it harder to stomach than Henry Ford's anti-semitism over 100 years ago.

And let's not pretend Elon is sticking up for "free speech." He's censoring folks who don't agree with him. That isn't free speech, unless you subscribe to fascist definitions of "free speech."

Re:Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand by newZWhoDis on Thursday December 29, 2022 @12:40PM (#34175370)
> He's censoring folks who don't agree with him. That isn't free speech, unless you subscribe to fascist definitions of "free speech."

I’m going to need some citations

Re:Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand by vgt on Thursday December 29, 2022 @12:42PM (#34175399)
Re:Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand by ModernMech on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:17PM (#34176657)
> Users were banned for impersonation, which was against the rules prior to Elon.

Musk said he was going to only ban people for violating the law. Is it not against the law to parody someone without identifying that you are a parody. Musk banning these accounts may be fine from your perspective, but not from an absolute free speech perspective.

> 2) Banning the jet tracker, while wrong, makes sense

Doesn’t make sense from the perspective of free speech absolutism. A lot of the bans pre-Musk made sense, like banning Trump for using the platform to foment insurrection. But Musk railed against those actions as examples of censorship, and promised not to operate that way. Instead, he is operating exactly that way. I don’t have a problem with that as it’s his platform, but he 100% went back on his promise as soon as he got control.

> Edit: I can’t reply to you because of dangs rate limit. Your articles are complete bullshit.

You’ve been rate limited for a reason. Please don’t try to get around the rate limit by editing your posts.

Re:Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand by bilbo0s on Thursday December 29, 2022 @12:40PM (#34175366)
the Musk Twitter nonsense is very current

I don't understand how people don't get this?

It's like saying "Trump's bad, but what about Thomas Jefferson and slavery!"

It just leaves people scratching their heads.

Re:Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand by mathaway on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:36PM (#34190933)
There is no one currently banned on Twitter by Musk for personal dislike. The only person he’s being unprincipled against is Alex Jones.