Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter's permanent Trump ban

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/10/elon-mask-twitter-permanent-trump-ban

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techdragon• 4 years ago

Damn it Elon, you don’t get stuck in re-litigating the past, it’s pointless and doomed to failure.

Trump violated the rules a lot for years building up to finally getting banned… and he deserves the ban. Being important and famous doesn’t change the fact he deserves his ban. Anything you do to undermine this undermines the validity of ALL bans no matter how justified and appropriate each ban was.

TechBro8615• 4 years ago

re-litigating the past, it’s pointless and doomed to failure.

If re-litigating the past is pointless…

Trump violated the rules a lot for years building up to finally getting banned

…then why was his past behavior relevant when banning him for what was allegedly a single action?

Also…

Anything you do to undermine this undermines the validity of ALL bans

That’s the point. Many were not valid.

aeternum3• 4 years ago

It's interesting that Democrats seem to general favor limiting corporate power yet are completely onboard with permanent bans.

It's useful to consider how this would have played out if large platforms were present during other parts of history. Many of the speeches given civil rights protesters incited some violence, often not the fault of the orator, but would it have triggered a ban?

It's easy to advocate for permanent corporate bans when the people on your side control the company, but will that always be the case? How will your stance change if the Murdoch family buys FB and bans anyone that posts about a BLM protest if it contains any violence whatsoever?

archagon2• 4 years ago

As far as I'm concerned, let a thousand platforms bloom. If the government steps in and prevents that from happening, then we have a problem.

more_corn3• 4 years ago

This wasn’t about a side. A lie is a lie is a lie. He got banned for persisting in an objective falsehood. Oh by the way said falsehood was causing irreparable damage to our democracy. He wasn’t banned because of who he was. He was banned because of what he did.

fsociety• 4 years ago

If the Murdoch family buys FB and bans anyone who posts about a BLM protest.. I would happily make a social media startup. We both know that will never happen.

But this is not a question of politics. It is a question of integrity of which Trump has none.

foofoo4u• 4 years ago

Link to Musk's interview with the Financial Times: https://youtu.be/VfyrQVhfGZc?t=1120 . Twitter discussion starts at 18:40.

djyaz1200• 4 years ago

Time to short TSLA. I know billions have been lost betting against TSLA but if the educated liberals that LOVE Tesla connect their support to money that is then used to unmuzzle Trump they are gonna dump the cars and the stock... right at the time a lot of other manufacturers have credible alternatives. A man cannot serve 2 masters and this Twitter escapade, while interesting has already damaged Tesla.

UncleOxidant4• 4 years ago

I've heard this argument before, but what if what ends up happening is that the MAGAs decide that they want to buy Teslas? Sure the MAGA tribe has made fun of EVs in the past, but if the tribe decides that they can own the libs by buying them they'll forget all of that.

more_corn3• 4 years ago

What a funny turn about that would be. MAGAs buying EVs to own the Libs. That would be funnier than the loaded gun pointed at my dick craze from a few years ago.

mrlonglong2• 4 years ago

I knew it. It's a boneheaded move. I plan to delete my twitter account soon.

UncleOxidant4• 4 years ago

Deleted mine last week. As I was hovering over that 'deactivate' button I had to ask myself why it was so hard to press that button? And then realized that that hesitation is called "addiction"... and pressed it because it was imperative that I do so. I'm in twitter detox. But mostly I feel a lot better being outside of the outrage machine.

more_corn3• 4 years ago

Good work. Now do Facebook.

archagon2• 4 years ago

The net effect of this will quite possibly be a Twitter full of Muskovites, crypto nuts, and alt-right loonies. Seems like a good way to burn 44 billion dollars.

UncleOxidant4• 4 years ago

When I realized that Musk is essentially going to turn twitter into 4Chan I deactivated my account.

faeriechangling2• 4 years ago

The left wing loves Trump’s twitter presence. Complaining about him gives them something to do. They’ll use the site more than they currently do if he’s on the platform.

JMS2021• 4 years ago

I see Reddit is leaking here

thereare5lights• 4 years ago

actually i saw this from twitter

monkeydreams• 4 years ago

Im just waiting for the moment it becomes clear this is another Musk pump and dump.

shishy• 4 years ago

Here's the full answer, imo seems levelheaded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfyrQVhfGZc&t=1520s

Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter's permanent Trump ban

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