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Comment by seaourfreed | Hacker News Reader

Elon Musk needs to create competitors to Twitter / YouTube / Reddit that won't censor people like Twitter / YouTube / Reddit does.

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This guy?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/03/elon-musk...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-empl...

https://www.businessinsider.com/free-speech-absolutist-elon-...

I can only imagine how 'free' and 'uncensored' it will be. I bet it's gonna host everything from ISIS beheadings all the way to porn or straight-up conspiracies to overturn the US gorvernment, but nothing bad about the great leader Kim Old Musk and his endeavors.

If it was that easy someone would have done it already. Just for the ad revenue or whatever.

Yeah I also think people really don’t want / don’t value for a platform where anything goes.

I think it’s also that such a service would be wildly unprofitable. Almost nobody wants to advertise over ISIS beheadings. LiveLeak existed, but eventually shut down due to not being profitable.

> Almost nobody wants to advertise over ISIS beheadings

I sure wouldn’t.

I’m also pretty sure many people don’t want to see it.

It’s really hard to get around a lot of aspects of an anything goes forums.

People do, but advertisers don't. It doesn't help that these "anything goes" platforms pretty much devolve into right-wing themed racist gathering points at best, or a den of scams and prosecutorially interesting media.

I’m sure the FBI has made fantastic use of Gab, VOAT, etc.

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