Comment by camjohnson26 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by camjohnson26 | Hacker News Reader

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Because that would be impossible to prove, and Twitter’s owner has burned any expectation of good faith by lying, repeatedly, about the smallest issues. He said he wouldn’t ban the ElonJet account, and then he did: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/dec/19/elon-musk/...

He banned journalists who reported on it, banned links to Mastodon, Substack, and Threads, changed the algorithm to boost his own content, slapped a warning label on NPR implying it was government funded and no more independent than the Global Times or Russia Today.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/journalists-who-wrote-ab...

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blockin...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674427/substack-twitter-...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets...

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twit...

So you could be right and this might be a bug, but your implication that we should give Twitter the benefit of the doubt doesn’t hold up.

Thanks for the reply.

javajosh wrote a great reply in that vein -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37142280

The previous management was hardly better. They banned the New York Post for daring to break the Hunter Biden laptop story.

You can use whataboutism to justify anything, but even your example is bad. Twitter admitted they got that wrong and Dorsey apologized: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/16/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-says...

I don’t see any apologies for any of the bad actions Twitter has taken since the purchase, and the hypocrisy of doing this while claiming to be a center of free speech is astounding.

Of course Twitter had bias before because every group of people has a bias. But that doesn’t mean that everything they do is wrong or malicious, just because you don’t like them. The real tragedy is letting your own bias blind you to what’s in front of your face.

> The real tragedy is letting your own bias blind you to what’s in front of your face.

This is the sentiment I am getting from everyone. But it would seem to be the pot calling the kettle black.

Everyone is making an assumption off _their_ bias, I am asking for data before I decide.

Feel like I am taking crazy pills.

In my comment I said there’s a chance it’s just a bug. But there’s nothing wrong with speculating from past data, and throttling certain sites would fit the pattern of past behavior.

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