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In what way? Musk decides what's OK and not OK on twitter.

Twitter isn't a platform to promote democracy, it promotes what Musk wants.

Twitter has turned into hot garbage. For years my feed was pretty clean as it's almost exclusively tech. Gave it up recently as it was clogged with right-wing conspiracy, odd videos and random made up AI young women randomly following me occasionally.

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In the way that Brazil has ordered Apple and Google to delete VPN apps from users' phones?

If you don’t like Musk’s platform, feel free not to use it. Nobody is forcing you to. But if you try to lock me in a cell when I decide to use it, you are attacking my freedoms.

Musk deciding to not have a legal representative in Brazil attacked your freedom, which is the consequence of his acts.

A god-king sidestepping applicable law, attacked the freedoms of brazilians today. That's the real origin story. Here is each law being broken by the judge:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382

Don’t forget unsolicited porn and videos of soldiers being blown up

It is not just about X. A nation of almost 200 million was deprived of mobile VPN use by decision of a single person.

> In what way? Musk decides what's OK and not OK on twitter.

Before Musk, others were doing the same, but on the other side of the political spectrum from where Musk is now. Nothing new.

Sure, I can't really argue with any of that. How is it even remotely relevant in this case though?

That's ridiculous. You think Elon Musk goes around reading people's tweets and deciding what he wants or not? Or trained an AI model to only allow content that suits him?

The guy literally gets community-noted every once in a while. It's free speech.

Try saying "cisgender" on Twitter, of course the guy is moderating speech he personally doesn't like. It's not difficult to observe.

So Elon Musk getting community-noted is him moderating speech he doesn't like?

Elon Musk getting communit-noted is a fake way to pretend he could also be wrong but xitter is so great that it helps him fixes his biases.

You assume that's speech he doesn't like.

What's the relationship between twitter and free speech? I genuinely don't see that argument.

Not allowing secret manipulation by the deep state, corrupt states, or removal of speech that doesn't cater to extremist sensitivities.

It's the reason for the entire news post we're all commenting on.

When Elon first bought Twitter, they released a bunch of information on how governments (specifically the US government) was pressuring Twitter to remove content, often for political reasons (i.e. it was a conservative account, etc). He stopped doing that, and generally supports free speech on the platform; sort of in a 2008 reddit way

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