So what do you propose? We can't just shut off the Internet?

Well you bin the biggest shitheads on the site and make it hard for them to make new accounts. It’s probably impossible to fix but he’s clearly not trying to fix it at all

It’s 2024 and we’re all quite “online” people who are aware how Elon is operating Twitter. Let’s not feign ignorance here.

Who decides who the shitheads are? Do you expect people self organize, or maybe the US government just gets to choose who to silence again?

Just FYI, this comment will be flagged soon (not by me). You can't call anyone nasty names on here.

In other news, I'd be more than happy to never have another discussion with you.

Oh no however will I cope

You okay? From your other comments on HN you don't seem so grumpy or rude.

I hope your weekend treats you better than you deserve.

I’m having quite a nice weekend - cleaned my apartment, watching a shite TV show now, playing football tomorrow, gonna watch my pal in her iron man after. However when it comes to things like “should you be able to say the n-word on twitter” (something I have reported and received the usual “@killnwords88 has not been found to be in violation with Twitters policies, if it hurts your feelings maybe try blocking them…” or whatever) I think there’s a very clear answer and dancing around it with fake “free speech” issues places you firmly in the camp of either very stupid or hateful people.

Huh. I'm not sure you've been replying to the right person. I've never talked about the n word.

I don't have inside info on how they tackle these issues, but I imagine it's an especially tricky problem when a word isn't hateful when used by a minority group, so they probably can't ban all uses of a word, otherwise you'd risk silencing a whole group of people that are "allowed" to say the word.

Anyway, in the US "free speech" is primarily important to us in reference to being allowed to criticize the US government and it's officials.

If your take is “gosh, I don’t quite know what you mean about the racism (and more) problem on the free speech site X fka Twitter” you’re either very sheltered or you’re one of the people comfortable with the whole thing and it’s an act.

I’m going to choose to assume you’re just a bit sheltered and leave this comment thread, since you’ve already stated you’d rather not discuss anything with me

Do you use Twitter often and see it for yourself?