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Elon is a fucking terrorist. Deport his ass back to daddy's emerald mines.
I'll give you an upvote just for knowing what type of gem it was. So many South African diamond mine comments smh.
X’s Global Government Affairs team described the outcome as a win for “freedom of speech”.
So I guess every upper level employee at deadbird site is just another Musk asskisser with the same demented view of free speech?
He got rid of everyone else when he took over, he's still dealing with court cases about how he handled that.
I wonder what the proportion of bots to actual gamergate incel chuds who idolise Musk was.
I'm quite conflicted about this.
I hate musk. Hate twitter. Hate that people were sharing videos of a terrorist attack.
That said, I suspect that this was something of a test case, with the regulator flexing their censorship muscle, and I'm glad it didn't work out.
It's also disappointing that her kids were doxxed, I don't condone that at all... but "just doing my job" is not a reasonable defence when you have a shitty job strategising how to corrode privacy.
The stabbing was literally live streamed and they were trying to block a very graphic footage to be viral on Twitter. I would have blocked the instance if any fediverse instance didn't remove such a video from their platform.
And that'd be reasonable for you to do. However, having a network choose to remove something, or cut ties with servers in the network that don't in an attempt to persuade them to remove that thing, isn't exactly the same as a government ordering a thing be removed. The former doesn't give much avenue for a malicious actor to suppress something that isn't in their interest, because they can hardly control the collective actions of users on the network, but the latter does by creating a single point of decision making on the network's content from the outside. Not that the motivations in wanting that video gone were bad, but there is an element of risk to making it possible for a government entity to remove something from a social network, even if the thing they want gone this time is something that really shouldn't be there.
The hypocrite removes videos and other content at the behest of his other authoritarian buddies. Like in Turkey. If you ask me, safety should've just blocked and banned twitter from Australia.
Pretty much. Musk is far from a free speech absolutist as he proclaimed himself to be. I would go further and say he's substantially worse, unpredictable and inconsistent in free speech matters.
Old Twitter would hardly be a true paragon of free expression, but they were at least relatively transparent. Good luck getting any answers from new Xitter or any consistency.
Conservatives are so reasonable. /s
So what exactly was the point of trying to remove the video in the first place?
Standard procedure to reduce copycat killings and be respectful to the families of the victims killed on stream. Imagine why people in the US might want a hypothetical livestream by the Sandy Hook shooter of them shooting a bunch of kids taken down.
Yeah thanks that makes sense.
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