Musk just tweeted this 5 mins ago:
"Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.
No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes."
"Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.
No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes."
> Dear Twitter Advertisers (...)
> Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences! In addition to adhering to the laws of the land, our platform must be warm and welcoming to all, where you can choose your desired experience according to your preferences
Get it from the horse's mouth:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376?lang...
Also ironic that his goal was to promote free speech and painted moderation as evil.
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It is beyond me that I am downvoted for pointing the irony of the situation.
So many proponents of free speech have so few regards to give for TOS and have the audacity to demand service without abiding to it. It seems that HN is no longer a bastion of honest discussion and has been overrun by certain individuals.
For those that aren't aware they were suspended but could get unsuspended by deleting their own tweet which includes an explicit admission that they're evil no good sinners as part of the process.
Which The Bee rightfully chose not to do at the time and let it lie for months.
It’s cultural, we have many people (like you) who believe they’re the arbitrators of truth. They alone understand and know what is fact and what is fiction, even if that fact is a moving target that changes by the hour, the hypocrisy of that is totally lost on these folks (ie you).
Additionally, the fact-setters refuse to even entertain the idea that maybe their “facts” are not based on reality, and they label anyone who disagrees with them as evil. And everyone agrees that evil must be culled. They will often use extreme epithets (nazi, bigot, hitler, white supremacist) to get their point across, no matter how inappropriate, contradictory, or ahistorical that insult might be in context.
Until people can step out of their bubble and be willing to admit that the world is a million shades of grey we’re not gonna solve this problem.
Why should people tolerate the intolerant? Why should people tolerate those who can’t even follow basic TOS and behave as adults?
Why should the world tolerate people like that ex president who mocked a reporter with disabilities, who said he grabs women by their genitals, who has received multiple accusations of sexual assault, has been on Eipstein’s island and likely touched little girls?
Why should reasonable people be tolerant to dysfunctional adults who support such a president and share his dog-whistle soundbites? Why should the world tolerate people who are actively calling for their murder? Why should reasonable people give space to people like Pence who want to shove their Christianity down the throat of everyone else?
I will exercise my free speech and call fascists the fascists they are until they stop behaving like fascists. The intolerant deserve no tolerance.