[secfirstmd]

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[bluescrn]

But TikTok and Facebook and Reddit are just fine as their bias leans towards the correct tribe?

(Surely the most dangerous social media platforms are the ones used to influence kids/teens? Twitter and Facebook are for the oldies at this point)

[paulryanrogers]

All those companies are getting critical attention now and have for years in the past. The big difference is that their CEOs are more discrete.

[mozman]

Removing moderation is the greatest thing you can do. You might not like it, but it’s often the right thing to do as long as it’s legal.

[cletus]

First, this is what happens when moderation is removed from Twitter [1]. So Dom Lucre was in possession of CSAM that would literally land anyone else in jail for the mere possession of it (fuelling the rumors he is an FBI informant), watermarked it, posted it on Twitter and it was for for days.

That's who Elon unbanned.

Now if you've bought into the lie that Elon is a free speech absolutist, which he absolutely is not, you might consider that a good thing. Now take a look at a partial list of Twitter accounts Elon has banned [2]. This includes many journalists and a guy posting where his private plane is (from public information), many of whom were banned for simply hurting his feelings or calling out one of his lies.

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwa7z/twitter-elon-musk-dom...

[2]: https://observer.com/2022/12/elon-musk-suspend-twitter-accou...

[Peanuts99]

Isn't Hacker News a generally decent place to discuss topics because of the reasonably high levels of moderation of topics and discussion?

[kQq9oHeAz6wLLS]

As a non Twitter/X user, I keep hearing this take and I gotta say... I just don't see it.

To me, there has been no significant change, aside from hearing more people on the left bemoan that Elon is giving "dangerous" people on the right a platform.

But I honestly don't see an actual difference aside from people saying there is one.

[mschuster91]

> As a non Twitter/X user, I keep hearing this take and I gotta say... I just don't see it.

Yeah, but everyone who does use Twitter will see it. The place is going down in flames - no matter what you write, you'll get likes from a "<firstname><bunchofnumbers>" bots, and replies such as "P U S S Y I N B I O" in a matter of seconds.

[KerrAvon]

Seriously, your response to this is "I don't use the product. The product doesn't seem any different to me under new ownership." Do you not see the inherent contradiction?

[KerrAvon]

P U S S Y I N B I O

[thedudeabides97]

Free flow of information is a huge risk to democractic systems? Seems like shadow banning and political censorship are the real risks to democractic systems and he got rid of those. You fight disinformation with accurate information while keeping in mind every once in a while those crazy conspiracy theories end up being real.

[paulryanrogers]

> I’m willing to listen to Fox News as often as I listen to MSNBC

Aren't these examples far right and center-right? Or have I fallen off the other end of the spectrum?

[t43562]

There's no avoiding moral choice in news. Propaganda works. "A lie travels round the world before the truth can get it's boots on."

To enable liars is absolutely evil and you cannot avoid making decisions about who is lying without risking being wrong and evil yourself.