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1. camjoh+e2[view] [source] 2022-12-16 21:37:23
>>GavCo+(OP)
This is the height of hypocrisy. Everything the "twitter files" have disclosed so far is in line with what most people expected was happening, but Musk's censorship of the platform has been far more egregious than anything that came before. This isn't to defend the actions that Twitter took, which were arguably partisan in some cases, but it's difficult to make the case that Twitter wasn't making a best effort to curate a healthy platform.

Musk by contrast has shown that he only cares about limiting speech that damages himself, and he will say or do anything to obscure that fact. He promised not to ban the elonjet account, and then reversed course: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/14/elons-promise-not-to-ban...

He falsely claimed that Twitter refused to take action on child exploitation: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1601302412056473600?s=20&t=4...

He has banned journalists who were critical to him in the past: https://mastodon.world/@kairyssdal/109524620754087441

He has banned Mastodon and Pixelfed's accounts, falsly labeling them as "malware."

And most hypocritically, he claims the reason for all of this is because these people have shared "assassination coordinates" and "doxxed" him, even though first of all, the information is public: https://mastodon.social/@JxckS/109524630642043912 Second, most of the journalists never linked to his private information: https://famichiki.jp/@stopthatgirl7/109522071808584229 There is evidence that his claimed stalker was far from an airport, and worst in my opinion, he has doxxed critics in the past in much more damaging ways: https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/37229846-montana-skeptic/... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon... https://futurism.com/the-byte/twitter-employee-flees-home-el...

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2. ZeroGr+u5[view] [source] 2022-12-16 21:51:52
>>camjoh+e2
I'll try to find an article explaining the concept, but for right-wing authoritarians, the hypocrisy is the point.

In group vs out group.

https://level.medium.com/its-always-about-power-f9fca4321e0c

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3. George+dQ[view] [source] 2022-12-17 02:52:18
>>ZeroGr+u5
> the hypocrisy is the point.

I am right wing, and I hear right-wing commentators say things like "for left-wing authoritarians, the hypocrisy is the point" all the time. Seriously, the article you linked sounds exactly like something I would read from "my" side, just with good guys and bad guys reversed.

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4. ShredK+C21[view] [source] 2022-12-17 04:28:06
>>George+dQ
I'd consider myself a centrist democrat (registered Democrat, vote mostly for Democrats, had a wonderful childhood in a very multicultural region of California, spent several years living in Berkeley CA, my sister who I'm close to works for her local Democrat party) and I've been surprised by the strong element of left-wing extremism on HN. The culture of the site has changed quite a bit in the past few years. It used to be that there was room for more perspectives here. I feel that my interest in building a coherent political worldview puts me in a minority compared to HN users who just want to sling mud at people they see as their opponents.
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5. skinny+ud1[view] [source] 2022-12-17 06:16:10
>>ShredK+C21
I don’t think there’s any left wing extremism on HN. This is an insanely capitalist site. It could help your political worldview to not see the world from an overweighted American perspective, which is quite right wing.
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