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Re:Will Tesla and Google Kill the German Car? on Monday November 04, 2019 @04:30PM (#21446702)
ASUS makes 'Turbo' graphics cards.

Vitamix and Robot Coupe both make 'Turbo' blenders.

Intel offers 'Turbo Boost' CPUs.

Miele makes a 'Turbo' vacuum cleaners.

Intuit makes a 'Turbo' tax preparation product.

Porsche buyers know that 'Turbo' means 'it's the fast, non-track variant', and normal people also know it means 'this one is fast'. A few nerdy pedants will get upset, but literally nobody cares about them. They weren't going to buy one anyway.

Bhutan engaged in ethnic cleansing and expelled over 100,000 Lhotshampa into Nepal.
It is also disingenuous to refer to hate speech that breaks Twitter's rules as "political speech".
It is not reasonable compare a company choosing not to host content that hurts marginalized people, with a company being forced not to host content critical of the most powerful people.