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Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by 23B1 on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:45PM (#39233222)
I don't care if its a right-wing talking point and I don't care if a company has given themselves permission to censor themselves.

My interest is broadly about the attitudes towards speech as they continue to be shaped by corporations who continue to privatize the public square. See Taibbi's 'Twitter Files' for ample examples.

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Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by nullindividual on Friday February 02, 2024 @03:39PM (#39234016)
Users are privatizing the 'public square'. We come to HN by choice. I'm sure others use Twitter by choice. And users subject themselves to the TOS by choice.

This is definitely one of those 'if you don't like it, build (or buy) it'. It has worked out disastrously in the conservative realm so far, but perhaps you have better ideas.

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Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by 23B1 on Friday February 02, 2024 @05:16PM (#39235183)
"If you don't like it, build your own" is another bad-faith lie told by those who love censorship culture.
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