cyberphobe

Fortunately we can use our brains to think and realize that while both sides are calling the other a danger to democracy, only one of them made a concerted effort to overturn the results of an election (an overtly anti-democratic act)

> all it will take to lose your democracy is for a dictator to proclaim his opponents a danger to democracy.

This is true, but your framing of it as something that could be stopped if… something? is absurd

I’m fine with the government shutting down anti-democratic movements. I’m not fine with anti-democratic governments shutting down legitimate discussion that looks bad on them, or serving a foreign power. These are not the same thing.

You’re not allowed to call it right wing. My comments doing so get flagged right away. No pointing out that this bullshit is clearly politically motivated.

What am I missing then?

Yeah, these people are just desperately trying to generate outrage over nothing. It’s really really dumb. No need to give them too much thought

I didn’t notice the author, almost took this in good faith, then I got to this banger:

> After all, a whole range of government agencies discredit themselves in the #TwitterFiles

these people are delusional

I used to refuse to use those services, but then I got libredirect [1] which does a great job of decrapifying them and a lot of other anti-user websites.

[1] https://libredirect.codeberg.page

EDIT: I will still attempt to avoid your shitty substack/medium blog if literally any other sources are available. Please stop using this garbage.

we were talking about if Elon is stupid. The answer is, obviously, yes. Being stupid has nothing to do with success, also obviously.

I wonder if pg still thinks Elon is "a smart guy"[1]?

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221218210821/https://twitter.c...

> If they were actually concerned with people fleeing why would they do something which is more likely to make creators leave?

you're asking this in a sub-thread about if Elon is smart or not? I thought the answer was obvious.

I don't think people are calling Elon Musk stupid because they disagree with him.

This is true. Wealth is what matters in this world, not intelligence.

Yeah it's probably that, not that everyone is fleeing Elon's $44 billion dying platform and he's is trying to stop it in whatever way he can.

And in the replies to this tweet he insists[1] "Elon is a smart guy" in spite of all the evidence to the contrary

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1604557444247539712

Seriously how is this bullshit getting upvoted? Enormous social media company talked to the FBI? I knew HN was right wing but seriously guys?

Also according to Elon Musk, hasn't even taken this down yet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456

more likely non-crackpot non-conspiracy: perhaps Elon is actually just this stupid.

Right, it's not "making the rest of society's phone bills higher", it hurts the stock gains for shareholders. That's what I meant by "what about muh corporate profits"

a lot of his little projects have a wrong-message-from-scifi-distopia kind of vibe

slightly?

> rest of society's phone bills higher

this implies that the price of a phone bill is connected to the price of operating the service. The price is set by what they think they can get, not how much it costs to run.

The discussion wasn't about perfection, it was about whether this was a "frivolous lawsuit", which it obviously is not. You probably knew this, metamann, brand new account which has only commented in this thread about how Facebook's inaction lead to death.

Lots of telco bootlicking and "what about muh corporate profits" in this thread on "hacker" news.

GP said "locking phones to carriers" should be illegal, not "buying a locked phone".

your analogy doesn't work because cars aren't locked to dealerships. If the dealer controlled how you used your car and restricted what you did with your car via some sort of artificial software limitation within the vehicle, then removing that limitation would also be a good thing.

but it doesn't seem like he did anything (morally) wrong with that access. Just helped people dodge T-Mobile's abusive practices. It would be one thing if there was like SIM swapping or something, but it doesn't look like that happened here.

> The Free Press is a new media company founded by Bari Weiss

this is the same crazy right winger who has been posting "The Twitter Files"

Yeah probably, but wouldn’t really be sufficiently punitive to really deal with the problem. It should be a % of the abuser’s revenue