top | item 36596427 (no title) tropicalbeach | 2 years ago Genuine question you like your social media filtered by someone who says what you're allowed to see? discuss order hn newest dale_glass|2 years ago Genuine answer: Yes.If I wanted an unfiltered experience, there's 4chan and the like. Notice that I'm not there, but somewhere I don't have to wade through mountains of crap. HN is very much moderated, that's what keeps it useful. Joeri|2 years ago Taking your question seriously, I would say mike masnick has the definitive answer: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...By the way, Twitter under Elon supposedly obeys more government censorship demands than before: https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2023-04/twitter-complying-mo...So if you believe twitter is now a free speech platform, it just means that you’re no longer the one being censored. That doesn’t mean no one is. threeseed|2 years ago There have been a large number of accounts that have been censored by Twitter.Musk even admitted doing so at the behest of foreign governments something Twitter 1.0 used to aggressively fight and prevent from happening. spiderfarmer|2 years ago Do you want to live in todays world but without laws and regulations?
dale_glass|2 years ago Genuine answer: Yes.If I wanted an unfiltered experience, there's 4chan and the like. Notice that I'm not there, but somewhere I don't have to wade through mountains of crap. HN is very much moderated, that's what keeps it useful.
Joeri|2 years ago Taking your question seriously, I would say mike masnick has the definitive answer: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...By the way, Twitter under Elon supposedly obeys more government censorship demands than before: https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2023-04/twitter-complying-mo...So if you believe twitter is now a free speech platform, it just means that you’re no longer the one being censored. That doesn’t mean no one is.
threeseed|2 years ago There have been a large number of accounts that have been censored by Twitter.Musk even admitted doing so at the behest of foreign governments something Twitter 1.0 used to aggressively fight and prevent from happening.
dale_glass|2 years ago
If I wanted an unfiltered experience, there's 4chan and the like. Notice that I'm not there, but somewhere I don't have to wade through mountains of crap. HN is very much moderated, that's what keeps it useful.
Joeri|2 years ago
By the way, Twitter under Elon supposedly obeys more government censorship demands than before: https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2023-04/twitter-complying-mo...
So if you believe twitter is now a free speech platform, it just means that you’re no longer the one being censored. That doesn’t mean no one is.
threeseed|2 years ago
Musk even admitted doing so at the behest of foreign governments something Twitter 1.0 used to aggressively fight and prevent from happening.
spiderfarmer|2 years ago