Elon Musk acquires Twitter

[BBally81]

youtu.be/O-e5wdbqPBU

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I'll be interested to see if he gives former president Trump his account back. Just throw a monkey wrench into both parties' midterm plans right in the middle of the primaries.

I hope so. Doesn't matter if you like him or not, Trump was disproportionately punished.
Twitter is a place full of active profiles made by convicted murderers, pedos, rapists, terrorists, racists and bigots. But Trump, oh, he "incited violence" therefore he deserves to be banned forever. What? And these terrorists who are using the site to radicalise kids aren't? What a load of crap.
Just be consistant in your bullshit is all I'm asking Twitter.

The way you put it makes it out to be a matter of punitive consequence or something, like it's just how you standardly deal with people that break rules or something. It's a policy that has to do with specific exploitation of their platform with consideration of it as a public entity, inclusive of liability to some acknowledged extent.

None of those types of people have anything to do with why Trump was banned.

[Frustration]

The "terms of service" thing is an excuse, not a reason.

Discord (which I know about because my local gaming store organizes events over it) recently changed their rules so that they can remove content they consider to be "false" and punish people who make "false" statements.

What this actually means is that all kinds of untrue content will remain, but content they feel is politically objectionable and they can make a pretense of disbelieving will be removed at will. I don't agree with that, because I don't think it's their place to determine what is and is not true, and I don't care to be subject to their whims.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

BREAKING: Man Makes Midlife Crisis Everybody’s Problem

[Madner Kami]

The "terms of service" thing is an excuse, not a reason.

Discord (which I know about because my local gaming store organizes events over it) recently changed their rules so that they can remove content they consider to be "false" and punish people who make "false" statements.

What this actually means is that all kinds of untrue content will remain, but content they feel is politically objectionable and they can make a pretense of disbelieving will be removed at will. I don't agree with that, because I don't think it's their place to determine what is and is not true, and I don't care to be subject to their whims.

Discord in particular, has no right to do anything the like. Each server is servicing a certain audience and these servers are created by and for said audience by third parties and not Discord itself. If someone objects to a given content on Discord, then said person can leave the server. It's not like you are forced into reading the stuff you find objectionable, quite the contrary. Fringe bullshit has the tendency to get lost on some remote and barely visited server, which is just what it should be like.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

So apparently he might have changed his mind
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/e ... 022-04-27/

[Draco Dracul]

I'll be interested to see if he gives former president Trump his account back. Just throw a monkey wrench into both parties' midterm plans right in the middle of the primaries.

I hope so. Doesn't matter if you like him or not, Trump was disproportionately punished.
Twitter is a place full of active profiles made by convicted murderers, pedos, rapists, terrorists, racists and bigots. But Trump, oh, he "incited violence" therefore he deserves to be banned forever. What? And these terrorists who are using the site to radicalise kids aren't? What a load of crap.
Just be consistant in your bullshit is all I'm asking Twitter.

The way you put it makes it out to be a matter of punitive consequence or something, like it's just how you standardly deal with people that break rules or something. It's a policy that has to do with specific exploitation of their platform with consideration of it as a public entity, inclusive of liability to some acknowledged extent.

None of those types of people have anything to do with why Trump was banned.

Rules are for liberals. They don't apply to conservatives because they are protected when they break them and they don't apply to leftists because they are punished even when they follow them.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I'll be interested to see if he gives former president Trump his account back. Just throw a monkey wrench into both parties' midterm plans right in the middle of the primaries.

I hope so. Doesn't matter if you like him or not, Trump was disproportionately punished.
Twitter is a place full of active profiles made by convicted murderers, pedos, rapists, terrorists, racists and bigots. But Trump, oh, he "incited violence" therefore he deserves to be banned forever. What? And these terrorists who are using the site to radicalise kids aren't? What a load of crap.
Just be consistant in your bullshit is all I'm asking Twitter.

The way you put it makes it out to be a matter of punitive consequence or something, like it's just how you standardly deal with people that break rules or something. It's a policy that has to do with specific exploitation of their platform with consideration of it as a public entity, inclusive of liability to some acknowledged extent.

None of those types of people have anything to do with why Trump was banned.

Rules are for liberals. They don't apply to conservatives because they are protected when they break them and they don't apply to leftists because they are punished even when they follow them.

What I'm saying is that it's a communication platform. What someone is banned for likely has more to do with policies regarding problematic transmission of information and not a vague judgement of how good or bad they are as a person.

[Frustration]

Discord in particular, has no right to do anything the like.

They unquestionably have the legal right to set whatever terms of service aren't incompatible with existing law.

They equally clearly have no rational justification for removing legal speech, nor do they have any conceivable ethical justification for doing so. But they *can*.

This sort of nonsense is why I won't use Patreon, and am avoiding doing anything to support Discord as I support other programs and services I use.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I think he means moral right?