[lucius_verus]

The bit about "following the law" was so poorly thought out. Musk's comments at TED made it seem like he both: (1) confused Bill of Rights guarantee that the government won't censor speech with some law that prohibits private companies from moderating speech on their platforms (not a thing) (2) failed to consider what it means to "follow the law" when your platform operates in multiple countries with incompatible laws. Do you comply with an authoritarian regime that demands you take down tweets (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/24/22451271/police-india-rai...)? How about content that is specifically banned in some countries but not others, like Germany's strict hate speech laws (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/twitter-germany-nazis/)? These are actual problems Twitter has had to deal with, and I don't get the impression that Musk realizes how complicated it it is.

[sidibe]

Noone could have known social media moderation could be hard! Just like in 2017 he had no way of knowing his cars wouldn't drive themselves cross country by 2018

[tekknik]

How about we start with not banning US politicians?

[tigershark]

Do you mean the one that attempted a coup and utterly failed, like all the things in his life? I don’t think there is another person in the entire world that managed to bankrupt not one but TWO casinos. And I think that you guys are very lucky that he didn’t succeed in his half-assed coup, otherwise you would help Russia instead of Ukraine, and would have become soon after that a bankrupt state with all the world against, same as Putin current track record.

[cowmoo728]

What if a US politician purposely uses Twitter to incite an angry mob to commit a lynching? These are not just hypotheticals, internet platforms have driven mob violence at various scales in several countries.

"Just don't ban US politicians" seems like an unworkable solution.

[tekknik]

Please provide evidence, otherwise your statement is opinion. Not everybody believes the lie that Trump caused Jan 6

[nmz]

Indeed, and Charles Manson also did not commit and cause any murder.

[tekknik]

This is still not evidence.

[nmz]

You are right, he did not directly "cause" it in the strictest sense. Never did he say "storm the capitol" however. as a smart person. you should understand implications and metaphors and that many people know how to tiptoe the line between plausible deniability. and some can even dance on it. if you want to ignore this, then its fine.

[jonny_eh]

Trump admitted that he deserved responsibility: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-tap...

We can quibble over details but it's far from being a "lie".

[tekknik]

From Trump himself right?

[cowmoo728]

I purposely did not mention Trump because I was not talking about Trump. I was referring to anti-muslim violence in BJP regions of India, and anti-Rohynga violence in Myanmar.

[tekknik]

Yea meanwhile the rest of the US focuses on this one action alone.

[mlindner]

He personally considers Twitter to be an extension of the "town square", so he wants to apply the laws of the government and turn them into the operational bylaws of Twitter. If the US government allows it in a "town square" then it's automatically allowed on Twitter.