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Comment by 650REDHAIR | Hacker News Reader

"What is Twitter now is a fair game. Every voice is heard the same. What Twitter is doing now should have been the norm the whole time."

Where is your proof for that being true? I was a left-leaning voice that was banned from Twitter after changing my display name (not handle) to "Elon's Musk".

How is that free speech?

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You got banned for impersonation, not speech.

> for impersonation

Of a cologne brand of some kind? "Elon's Musk" is very clearly not a person.

"Joe's Rogan" is also not a person, but plenty of bots and scammers on social media use such celebrity names to obfuscate their accounts and scam people with crypto/erection pills, etc. You have to ban all of them to eliminate scammers as much as possible.

> use such celebrity names to obfuscate their accounts

I thought free speech and sunlight were the best disinfectants. By leaving these accounts up and allowing other users to point out how they were misleading, everyone will learn and be wiser.

It's an actual cologne one can buy: https://www.joketown.com/smell-rich

Never heard of it. Was the banned account flogging its own cologne with the same name?

Nobody would confuse "Elon's Musk" with Elon Musk.

You're clueless of the real world if you think nobody falls for that. There wouldn't be any scammers if that would be the case.

who needs scammers when you have the real Elon selling full self driving.

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