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by colpabar 1272 days ago
> Kinda feels like you’re trying to engage in the same type of censorship that bothers you.

No, because that isn't censorship. I'm participating in community moderation to the extent that this website enables me. It wouldn't be censorship for the owner of a facebook page about cooking to remove posts not about cooking, and it isn't censorship for posts not about "hacker news" on a website called hacker news. One type of censorship that does bother me is shady government agencies that have done horrible things in the past working with massive social media platforms to influence public discourse. But that's pretty political, and this isn't the place for it.

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> I'm participating in community moderation to the extent that this website enables me.

Yes, but when Musk talked about freedom of speech but not freedom of reach he wasn’t referring to flagging that leads to removal. He meant you might not get as many views as you had hoped.

So your approach of flagging is actually more extreme because the content will be completely removed in some cases.

You do you, but I can’t fathom how to reconcile the public’s reaction to the Twitter files as a “slap in the face” as you said, and then calling this “community moderation”