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Comment by stanislavb | Hacker News Reader

"The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said"

I.e. be careful of criticising Musk, the king of FREE speech, if you wish to use X/Twitter.

p.s. in the meantime, you will be OK with posting hate speech, Nazi speech, porn, etc...

He allows a madman who in the past terrorized dead children's parents, but draws the line at proficient journalism by NPR. There's no free speech on X/Twitter, it's a platform dictatorship.

What online platform subject to American law doesn't remove user submitted content if it falls outside their ToS?

There's no "free speech" on any legal website. Try posting a cat picture to this website. Is dang the platform dictator in this case?

Elon draws the line at referencing other social media platforms — Paul Graham had his account suspended for this, all awhile live updating the rules. Another time Elon joined a live chat with other reporters. He didn't like their tones and he immediately had the entire feature suspended mid-chat.

This is the same guy who thinks it's fair play to accuse emergency rescue workers of pedophilia when he feels insulted.

There's a fundamental paradox at the heart of free speech and in the concept of tolerance. If you tolerate the intolerant, everything goes to crap. So how can Twitter tolerate this "journalist" who says negative things about it? Elon is protecting his delicate little antisemitic sheep from this big mean lie-teller. What a hero.

On the bright side, Elon Musk is very effective at promoting alternative platforms. The people follow the content, after all.

The corporate press is brought to you by pharmaceutical companies and defense contractors, neither of whom market to consumers. You can't write yourself a prescription nor buy an F-35. These companies advertise to ensure unfavorable coverage is immediately killed.

If you keep the "mainstream" media on your payroll, then you can easily dismiss one or two independent news reports as fringe or conspiracy-riddled.

> corporate press is brought to you by pharmaceutical companies and defense contractors

What press are you reading and in which decade?

If you pay for your news, you’re likely getting it from a provider that makes most of its money from subscriptions.

> companies advertise to ensure unfavorable coverage is immediately killed

Again, what news are you paying for and reading? The Times and Journal and Bloomberg are relentlessly critical, in my opinion to a fault, of the American military, defence contractors and pharmaceutical industry.

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