> How long before tweets and tweeters critical of Tesla start getting shadow-banned or outright banned?
Lots of people have gotten “hate-speech” violations requiring deleting tweets to avoid suspension for fairly mild criticism of Musk; that started happening within nor more than a couple weeks of the acquisition. It’s not particularly consistent (for any given style, or even specific wording, of criticism, its not possible to predict whether someone will get a violation for it), so its probably not an automated filter but something insiders (possibly including Musk; he’s definitely active enough on the site for it to be plausible, but it could just be underlings) are doing manually.
Is this because they don't use radars, and it refuses to stop for objects it doesn't recognize?
Seems like it shouldn't be that hard to tell if there's something in front of you and nothing behind you and always stop when you detect you can do so safely.
Maybe you get a few false positives stopping for plastic bags in the wind but who cares, safety should always be first even if it slows things down a bit.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 17.3 ms ] threadLots of people have gotten “hate-speech” violations requiring deleting tweets to avoid suspension for fairly mild criticism of Musk; that started happening within nor more than a couple weeks of the acquisition. It’s not particularly consistent (for any given style, or even specific wording, of criticism, its not possible to predict whether someone will get a violation for it), so its probably not an automated filter but something insiders (possibly including Musk; he’s definitely active enough on the site for it to be plausible, but it could just be underlings) are doing manually.
> So far, Musk has been benevolent.
Not really.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008383
Seems like it shouldn't be that hard to tell if there's something in front of you and nothing behind you and always stop when you detect you can do so safely.
Maybe you get a few false positives stopping for plastic bags in the wind but who cares, safety should always be first even if it slows things down a bit.