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If you read what Musk says now or years ago he actually is very much for moderation, but not censorship or banning people of the platform. In a way Musk is for
by antattack 4y ago
If you read what Musk says now or years ago he actually is very much for moderation, but not censorship or banning people of the platform. In a way Musk is for something similar to HN point system.
- arlcode 4y agoI get that, but the line between moderation and censorship is very culture and topic dependent. That's obviously true for authoritarian countries like China but even in "the West" there are competing definitions of what constitutes free speech. If you want to operate in those countries (at scale) you need to localize your moderation policies and therefore "take a stance". Cost of doing business globally.
- smt88 4y agoHN is a bad analogy because it has a lot of invisible moderation tools used by the all-powerful moderators, including: - banning - shadow-banning - deleting offensive messages - detaching off-topic threads The only difference with HN is that their rules are different. Everything else is very similar to Twitter.
- MrMan 4y agoHn is like Gab though, the users feel aligned with the management ideologically so they don't mind being censored by them.