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X reinstates Magdeburg attacker’s account after silently removing pro-Musk posts

by joejohnson on 12/22/24, 11:12 PM with 9 comments

  • by like_any_other on 12/23/24, 12:05 AM

  • by ChrisArchitect on 12/23/24, 3:21 AM

    Related:

    X deleted all posts of the Magdeburg attacker's support for Musk and far right

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42488955

  • by peutetre on 12/23/24, 12:47 AM

    Memory hole everything that is inconvenient. Woo! Hardcore!

  • by sinuhe69 on 12/23/24, 3:19 AM

    Can not confirm nor reject the claim because everything is so tiny and fast moving. Many (apparently archived) post are in Arabic, so I cannot make head or tail of them.

    The only thing I can confirm is that Taleb A. was active on Twitter long before 2024. So obvious his posts were deleted. But what they contain or was he a fan of Elon or not, I cannot say. And the author of the twit neither.

  • by casenmgreen on 12/23/24, 12:01 AM

    Twitter is coming to matter less, so what they do or don't do, matters less.

  • by scaramanga on 12/23/24, 3:03 AM

    As you well know, because Musk is a free-speech absolutist/crusader. Actually so much so that he is constantly attacked, and vilified for his courageous position. He is also a bold defender of the light of human consciousness itself. So working backwards from there you can determine that deleting posts is actually a form of constitutionally protected speech which X (the everything app) is doing, as a public service for all of humanity.

    There, FTFY

  • by kokken on 12/23/24, 6:53 AM

    This is indefensible

  • by lawn on 12/23/24, 2:16 PM

    Musk supports absolute free speech eh?

    But the apologists will still defend Musk and claim he's all about free speech...

  • by MemesAndBooze on 12/23/24, 7:11 AM

    Wow! Not even communist China censors freedom of speech and thought like Musk does