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Comment by ulkesh | Hacker News Reader

> people that have legit-if-undesirable influence on the world

You can say Trump. Because that's what this buy-out is about. Musk can call it what he wants (free speech, transparency, etc), but his intention is clear to anyone with a brain -- unbanning Trump.

Once that happens, I'll be happily finding myself off of Twitter and any other platform that allows a "legit" (and proven) dangerous lying narcissist to find their way onto my browser again.

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There are plenty of other people besides Trump that have been banned by twitter. I'm more interested in the people that were silenced for "COVID misinformation" and/or other forms of "misinformation" that turned out not to be misinformation at all but rather just didn't run in line with the mainstream consensus.

With regard to Trump though, if half the country is listening to him anyway I want to know what idiotic things he's saying as opposed to just burying my head in the sand. Censorship has never historically worked, and it will continue to not work.

Man, we went through so many cycles of “You (shouldn’t/must) wear (one/two/three) masks because the virus is (not) aerosolized and anyway the vaccine(s) (will be / are / weren’t) effective enough (to keep you off a ventilator / to keep you from having unspecified long term impacts that elude well-designed studies but we’re sure they exist).

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