Scrolling through the thread, I think that enough native speakers with no disabilities have found the wording confusing, to the point where there's no need to appeal to non-natives and those with disabilities to prove it is just confusing word choice.
As a non-native (who also misunderstood the sentence at first), I wouldn't want people to adapt or simplify their language for my sake.
But nobody here is actually excusing Musk's behaviour. You're arguing against something that hasn't been claimed, with weirdly authoritarian rhetoric at that.
Downvoting makes comments less visible. So downvoting is the equivalent of taping someone’s mouth shut because you don’t agree with them. Is that really what you are trying to do?
This is ridiculous, especially the comparison with physical violence. Upvoting a comment also makes all the other comments less visible, by promoting the comment you've picked, taking up the place where some other comment could've been. Nobody's mouth is taped shut by either upvoting or downvoting, all the comments are still visible, it's just that their order will be determined by the upvotes and downvotes - and removing the latter from the equation won't negate the "discrimination" (comment sorting) created by the former.
Trying to explain one's behaviour as a psychological issue isn't automatically sympathy towards the person.
Who is "we"?
served the public good
Yeah, nah. For a start, if one website could be singled out for bringing Trump into power, it wasn't any of those icky extremist places such as 4chan, 8chan, r/trump - it was Twitter where he posted his garbage for literal years with no interruption and thus gained a massive following. The site practically lived off his controversial diarrhea.
American moment
AI-based moderation tools sound like a recipe for disaster. Facebook has them, and it's not good.
TBH it's just simple text files, you can open any .srt with Notepad and edit it to your liking. I always remove those dumb ads at the beginning and the end.
To communicate with people, to follow various pages and groups that notify me of the current events regarding the topics that interest me, to buy and sell stuff in some groups, etc. At least in my case.
I wonder if that tech is subscription-based too.
So I'll still have to see their obnoxious emoji, eh...