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Nah, Musk isn’t crossing a line by trying to clean up twitter, sorry Alex but you’re off base here. Also - blocking is allowed fyi

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Roth is not a good person - and I’m being kind. Alex is on the wrong team with this take.

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Sorry Alex, the only person who crossed the line was you.

Your need to defend Yoel, given everything they did to you and EVERYONE ELSE who didn’t agree with them, is confusing and poorly executed.

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“I can’t believe I have to say this, but no one - not Elon Musk or anyone else - has presented any evidence that Roth supports child pornography or sexual abuse.”

I don’t think that’s the point. I think the point is that on his watch Twitter PRIORITIZED seeking out and silencing political dissidents/Covid narrative dissenters over those posting child porn.

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Fuck Yoel Roth. He’s human garbage

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Hysteria does not become you, Alex ... get a grip and get back on message with respect to COVID and the government's handling of the 'vaccine'.

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Do you know this guy Roth or something? What a strange hill for you to die on. He's clearly a freakish scumbag. It is not a logical jump to believe that his rather outre views on sexual practice could color how he perceived various Twitter users' posts relating to sexual topics. Methinks thou dost protest too much.

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Dec 12, 2022·edited Dec 12, 2022

This is far below your usual standards Alex. Did you miss the part where the new head of trust &safety, Ella Irwin chimes in saying that she was told by old management that she could not replace staffers in early 2022 who worked on child sexual exploitation and that at one point there were zero engineers assigned to the issue???? My advice is to delete this nonsense article.

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Totally disagree with you, which doesn’t happen often.

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Seriously? So you are saying that the clown who cavorted and conspired with the deep state spy agencies and domestic security apparatus to throw a Presidential election doesn't deserve a dose of his own medicine? Oh my gosh .... what about FAIRNESS!!!!

Tolerance has allowed our Constitution to be subverted. Musk is simply showing everyone that tolerance has its limits. Perhaps if the "Trust & Safety" useful idiots weren't so far up the butts of the politicians they were attempting to prop up, they would have spent a wee bit more time on actual, real problems.

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Wow Alex, after agreeing with many articles, I'm gonna disagree big time.

So you're worried about this guy who helped destroy the country, but its ok that people are still committing genocide with clot shots?

Whats going on?

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Dec 12, 2022·edited Dec 12, 2022

Ah, that old reflex is coming back, Alex. Yes, the "blood flows" but it isn't any actual present blood, it's the blood of children which was flowing with the unchecked actual Child Exploitation/Porn under your beloved Yoel Roth.

Don't worry Alex. We already thought the worst of Roth and Vijayjay and the entire Fascist Left at Twitter before the revelations Elon revealed about how they did next to nothing on the exploitation of children. Elon himself has commented that in the last month Twitter has done more to stop child exploitation materials on Twitter than in the years prior combined.

Of course these revelations are not going down well for the gay mafia. Well Alex, speech has a price and sometimes it comes in revelations we didn't expect or ones we'd like for their pure unsavory truth.

Deal with it.

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I can't find it in me to sympathize with the guy who was in charge of safety et al for content and couldn't find any reason to remove literal child porn but dreamed up reasons to remove a political figure he disagreed with. EM hasn't called for anyone to do anything violent against this guy. Criticism isn't violence. This, to me, is the same way people tried to say Trump incited violence with his tweets. He didn't. And Elon hasn't encouraged anyone to behave violently against this man. The idea that Criticism incites violence is a stretch IMO. Irrational people behave irrationally and we shouldn't self censor for fear of what others might do and we certainly don't shoulder the blame for lunatics who decide to do crazy shit

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Roth isn't the problem per se, but his ideology is.

We don't excuse Neo Nazis with Swastikas, we shouldn't excuse LGBTQ folks who write so "innocently" about child sexualization. In a purely academic setting this is a nothing burger. In a leftwing dystopia where minors are being courted into drag shows and mutilated into Gender Ideology, its a red line.

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Alex,

You flew too close to the sun.

You were right on the vaccines - but your hot takes on every other recent issue just don't look that well thought out. In fact, they appear rather imprudent.

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Elon will have zero trouble finding good engineers who want to protect children for god’s sake. What a stupid article this is.

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