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Looking at what is not allowed on HN, the same things are disallowed here. How is that not the same?

Elon will either let Twitter be run over by political spam and see it lose its value, or realize he needs to healthily stifle some speech to maintain his investment.



>> Looking at what is not allowed on HN, the same things are disallowed here. How is that not the same?

Not true. If Donald trump wanted to post here on tech or business I think he'd be allowed. The ban hammer might come quick not because of his views, but his inflamitory style. Twitter sensors ideas, not language.


Do they? In my experience they don't - e.g. the lab leak hypothesis.

If you hypothesise about it, that's A OK, if you claim that it's 100% verified, that's not, because it's not been proven one way or the other.


>> If you hypothesise about it, that's A OK, if you claim that it's 100% verified, that's not, because it's not been proven one way or the other.

But what is used as the ground truth? For the lab leak it will likely never be known. Even so, if Twitter is declaring certain parties as authorities on subjects that's not good - particularly in highly politicized situations.


What idea have they censored?


>> What idea have they censored?

Why did they cancel Donald Trump?

BTW I'm not supporting him, just pointing out censorship.




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