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• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 01:34pm

  Try making an argument next time, actually say something

• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 01:33pm

  See? You didn't even SAY anything right there. Why are you even bothering? If you want to refute a point, do that.

• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 01:32pm

  It’s fucking hilarious that you first criticize them for something and then do the same thing in the following sentence

  I mean, I can provide links to the definitions (and have), and unlike Masnick (and apparently you guys) I can actually read them. Providing personal location info is doxxing. Yes, ElonJet was doing that. It's really not complicated, which is part of what makes the gaslighting so dumb.

• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 01:28pm

  Yeah, yeah, made a spelling mistake, aren't you proud.

• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 01:28pm

  Awww, and here your other comment made me like you a little more. I mean, that's vapid as hell. I have to watch something for an hour to meat your approval? I didn't give a shit about your approval to start with but holy fuck is that not a price worth paying.

• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 01:21pm

  What really amuses me is my comment is going to get flagged and hidden (as soon as the guy spoofing as multiple users shows up) but this inciteful commentary will be left up forever.

• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 01:19pm

  Hrm....randomly calls people racist without any basis, claims the richest man in the world is obviously just a lucky idiot and then comments on a site he obviously doesn't know anything about. Yeah, that all tracks. This video is legitimately awful, you just like that he's emphatic, over emotional, and agrees with you. And BB, btw, is fighting the left dominant media culture (and censorship) which is about as "punching up" as you can get. But perspective is not your deal, huh? But man, you guys sure are mad that banning them got Musk to buy the pace, aren't ya? Whew!

• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 01:13pm

  Taylor Lorenz

  That is, people who are advocating violence or doxxing people Musk doesn’t know?

  Taylor Lorenz (who is a militant twit, btw) was suspended for doxxing other people, not Musk. I'm sure there others, but I just find that statement pretty funny. Also, this youtuber is just awful, a typical Lefty-SJW type and his arguments are not based on much and don't make a lot of sense...but are projected with a lot of emotion...it's fundamentally emotional arguments, not logic based. (I spent a couple minutes skimming, there's no way I'm listening to this crap for an hour) That you find this insightful really doesn't say great things about you and also shows just how extremely left-wing you've become.

• On the post: Louisiana Cops Use Facial Recognition Tech To Arrest The Wrong Person For String Of Robberies

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 12:46pm

  Technology like this will always have an error rate. That the error rate will be lowered is no excuse to rely on technology alone as the sole reason for putting someone in jail.

  SO that's an actually dumb thing to say. Everything has an error rate. There will always be an error rate. Combination of factors? Error rate. It is conceivable (not likely) that a single factor could have a smaller error rate than many others together. There will always be an error rate. If you put people in jail you accept that occasionally you will put innocent people in jail. It WILL happen. None of which has anything to do with why I find facial recognition abhorrent.

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Commitment To Only Pretending To Be Committed To Free Speech Still Stands

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 12:41pm

  It doesn't, and it's all just meaningless at this point. Been crying wolf for decades.

• On the post: Biden WSJ Tech Op-ed: More Of The Same Confused Stuff He Said Last Time

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 12:40pm

  Oh, my mistake, wrong post

• On the post: Biden WSJ Tech Op-ed: More Of The Same Confused Stuff He Said Last Time

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 12:35pm

  Because I fundamentally agree, I don't want face recognition. The opening line was still really dumb tho.

• On the post: Biden WSJ Tech Op-ed: More Of The Same Confused Stuff He Said Last Time

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 12:34pm

  You do know that the ACLU went to court to protect the KKK's free speech, right? Yeah man, that's how free speech works. Gonna hear some stuff you don't like. Can't work any other way.

• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 12:32pm

  You haven't debunked ANYTHING

  You keep on claiming you have, and you'll spend pages doing so, but you're just gaslighting and trying to pretend the plain meaning of words is not what they are. Fuck, you even tried to claim yesterday with a straight face that publishing personal location info is not "Doxxing". Completely ignored the definition that was posted! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing) This is either your first week on the internet (seems like, sometimes) or you're just lying about what it is because you're that fucking desperate to call Musk a hypocrite. And yes, Twitter (Gadde included, whom you love so much) directed censorship on a political basis. (legal, but pretty fucked up) Yes, numerous government agencies gave directions on who to ban and yes that is a 1A violation, actually. (no, it doesn't matter at all that Twitter only listened half the time.) The violation is on the part of the FBI and others, not Twitter, but nonetheless the only appropriate response from Twitter was "don't send us this crap" which they didn't feel at all free to do cuz government was constantly talking about regulating them. Oh, they also hired a few dozen very recently ex-FBI agents. That doesn't just happen. No, censorship isn't free speech, and yes moderation is a form of censorship. (also legal, as long as gov isn't involved, but arguably a form of editorializing.) All these words have definitions, and they are not what you claim, and you will spend pages and pages of digital ink pretending they are not what they plainly are. I used to like what you wrote, 20 years ago, and I still like some of it: Stop writing on this subject. It is very clear you hate Musk on a personal level, probably because you liked the previous form of censorship (don't make me cite your own posts at you), it is clear you are very far to the Left despite your claims, and that you have no objectivity on the subject at all. The whole process lessens you mostly cuz you wind up lying a whole lot and being incredibly snide when anyone calls you out on it ("I'm sorry you were lied to" as if we can't fucking read). Just Stahp.

• On the post: Louisiana Cops Use Facial Recognition Tech To Arrest The Wrong Person For String Of Robberies

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 11:39am

  Well that’s not true.

  This is always going to be a thing with facial recognition

  Well, no. Presuming it advances as all technology does at some point it will be better at telling people apart than people are. Don’t get me wrong: I’m utterly against facial recognition and I think it should be banned wholesale. But that’s cuz I don’t want to live in a surveillance state. Fundamentally I’m worried that it will work too well (or at all), not that it doesn’t work well enough.

• On the post: Biden WSJ Tech Op-ed: More Of The Same Confused Stuff He Said Last Time

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 09:36am

  "slightly"

  There's that liberal bias again. :)

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Commitment To Only Pretending To Be Committed To Free Speech Still Stands

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 09:19am

  You have not at any point "shot down" anyone. Assuming I'm associating you with the right "cowards" much of what you have said hasn't even made sense.

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Commitment To Only Pretending To Be Committed To Free Speech Still Stands

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 09:17am

  All of it? They accommodate the public. Certainly all the social media companies. Maybe not Apple? Seriously, do you not understand what that means?

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Commitment To Only Pretending To Be Committed To Free Speech Still Stands

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 09:14am

  That's actually relatively recent, and "invented". I don't really care tho, moderation is definitely a form of censorship. (at least if it involves removing content or makes it harder to see/hear)

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Commitment To Only Pretending To Be Committed To Free Speech Still Stands

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 08:37am

  Even if it was a very long time ago someone invented it. Besides which, "moderation" as in applied to speech is indeed a very new term. Doesn't matter, moderation is a type of censorship. Suck it. Words have meanings.

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