Re:Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
by thenaturalist on Sunday January 12, 2025 @08:13PM
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Ridicule my words all you want, we both know full well that there are legal definitions of slander and that I did not mean censoring anything but legally valid infringements.
That's what a (functioning) court system is there for.
What's heavy is blowing up a nothingburger in so many words. :D
Good luck with your lawsuit!
Re:Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
by blackeyeblitzar on Sunday January 12, 2025 @10:12PM
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Ok so if a court system is what matters why do you support abusive censorship from private platforms that go well beyond what the law typically requires.
Re:Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
by cryptonym on Monday January 13, 2025 @06:32AM
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Their platform. As long as they are transparent on what they are doing, they should be free to do this. You are also free to not use it.
Being deceptive is more questionable than doing your own censorship on your own platform.
Removing things you don't like without justification while claiming your platform is freedom-land would be much more problematic. Same with shady algorithm favouring specific content without transparency.
Re:Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
by dani__german on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:15AM
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And yet the twitter files shows an interesting case, what you posit as the platform executing their own will (their platform), was in fact heavily influenced by government threats of removal of section 230 protections. Platforms should be free from undemocratic, top down influence from our highest officials, surely you would agree?
That would skew platforms far to the right from their current (2020-2024) political leanings though.
Re:Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
by bdangubic on Monday January 13, 2025 @02:15PM
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have you actually read the twitter files? doubt that you did and also wrote this comment. you can also just read the above-the-fold part of the link you provided ... :)
Re:Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
by dani__german on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:51AM
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Here is a better link, woth direct quotes of the source material, that back up my claim. An editorialized wikipedia article written by people who do not want the story to be true was not a good choice on my part. My apologies. I'd also suggest listening to Mark Zuckerberg's appearance on JRE if you want to get info from the horse's mouth so to speak.
[1] https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/1-thread-the-twitter-fil...
Re:Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
by cryptonym on Thursday January 16, 2025 @06:52AM
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Mark Zuckerberg made big claims but unfortunately he didn't provide proof, no trails of relevant threats. He blamed left for his own communication during covid but at that time Trump was at the Whitehouse. That sudden change from Zuckerberg may not be entirely motivated by genuine freedom of speech support.
your words have insulted me so imma hit up HN to have it be deleted and maybe file a lawsuit as well :)