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He perhaps wouldn't have. Then again, so? Incidents happening to us and our family, hit us harder, and can move us to take specific action more often, news at 11.


This incident clearly shows why there should be a firewall between owners and moderation. This is in no way a way to run any social media site.


Indeed. Which is why the golden rule used to be 'do not moderate the forum that you participate in'. That solves most of those problems.


Yes you've nailed it. Totally human to react to a personal incident. Needs to be guarded against.


So free speech only counts when it doesn't affect you personally, got it.

I don't think anyone would really care about this had he not made purchasing Twitter all about trying to save us from the evil Twitter censorship demons.


>So free speech only counts when it doesn't affect you personally, got it

Yes, people are less accepting of things that personally are meant to spite/hurt them, even if they match their general principles. News at 11.

Besides, free speech is about sharing opinions and such, however controversial. Petty "I'll share your itinerary to the world" is not real speech, opinion, let alone an argument. It is doxxing/stalking - that the information is publicly available in aviation registers is irrelevant (lots of stalking information is: the doxxing/stalking/threatening part is extracting it from its normal location, highlighting, it and making it more public).


It's not doxing if it's public information. News at 11.




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