Is there a way for users to 'unflag' it?
Elon unbanned in a opaque way. He tried to offload responsibility onto twitter users even though it contradicts and confirms his past statements on lifting bans. We already knew he wanted to do it, but he also recently claimed some council would be involved.
You can probably pick plenty of other reasons from the guidelines as to why this gets flagged though. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is a complete lie when HNers are saying they are 'tired' of Elon, Trump, Truth Social, Twitter, etc. They are tired of articles and news that goes against their confirmation bias like this one.
Any articles confirming their bias on misery for the above, it is 'good news' here. HN is not tired of that hence why [0] wasn't flagged, unlike this post.
Update: To clarify, I'm making a couple of points here: 1) Based on Musk's own statements, it feels hard to believe that he actually thinks this is a reasonable way to come to a decision on this issue and 2) it's reasonable to view the results of this poll as heavily biased, apart from the bot question. In Trump's case, I think there's actually a real debate as to whether or not his ban was justified. This does not feel like a sound way to reverse Twitter's decision. That should matter to both Trump's supporters and his detractors.
I'll put it another way. Musk could have claimed that he didn't want to ban political speech that was not directly calling for violence because slippery slope and all that. I still wouldn't have agreed with him, but at least I would have felt better about that. That would have at least indicated that he was interested in determining what was right. Instead, he justified his actions with a poll that seems patently unreliable, shirked responsibility for his decision, and threw in some poorly deployed Latin as a heady sounding justification. I'm not at all convinced that he would have maintained Trump's ban if the results would have come out the other way.
I'm not endorsing his move to reinstate Trump, just taking a guess as to why.
I still think Elon never meant to buy Twitter. He was just swinging it around and smacked into Delaware Chancery Court.
Trump: "OK"
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And now you know the real reason for why Musk purchased twitter. To get those fine juicy government contract when Trump becomes king."
And if trump fails to become candidate or loses like he did last time?
Doesn’t make sense.
Simplest reason most obvious one: trump brings publicity and engagement for his business.
I have a feeling most employees will be thinking, “oh here we go again…”
Absolutely hilarious to see the reaction to all of this. Only when he got banned, it made it to the front-page. [0] But not when the account got reinstated.
Looks like flagging is a coping mechanism as an attempt to avoid both Elon and Trump living in the heads of commenters in [0] rent free as HNers continue to flag the news of an account of a former president being unbanned.
As always, I'm laughing at the Twitter chaos and everyone in [0].
