Elon Musk - news and discussion

[AnnO'Neemus]

Interesting they've 'obscured' it*.

While not saying it gives them a pass, I did wonder if some outlets edited it out of coverage for similar reasons, even if it was a misguided instinct to not broadcast offensive material, and/or a convenient excuse for them to sidestep the decision.




*for lack of a better word coming to mind that isn't 'censored'

I don't think it was censorship or a misguided instinct to not broadcast offensive material.

I vaguely recall that Germany has quite strict laws about not promoting Nazi imagery as well as laws against Holocaust denial.

So if a German media outlet believed/interpreted it to be a Nazi salute, it would probably be illegal for them to publish/broadcast the image of it.

And if you've got a bunch of German editors and journalists, publishers and their media lawyers saying 'We can't publish that, it's a Nazi salute' and/or 'We can't publish that, it really looks like a Nazi salute and so it's too close to call, especially because he's not denied it'... then who are we to argue that it's not?

You could argue that by censoring it, the journalists/publishers attributed the 'awkward salute' with that meaning, projected that meaning on to it, but... has Musk issued a denial/condemnation of Nazi salutes yet?

 

[JimW]

The headline reads " A Nazi salue is a Nazi salue is a Nazi salute" I think, so they're censoring it so as not to show one, not to sit on a fence.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Sorry, yes, I understood that the German paper wasn't publishing the image because of the law (and also what the headline said ).

The "similar reasons" was more in reference to why the law exists in the first place, and whether some US news outlets may be using similar reasoning to those in that law when deciding whether they should broadcast footage of it. Or, as I say, possibly as a convenient justification, whether that's to others or even to themselves, in that way we all do sometimes when given a convenient reason not to do something we're not keen on doing anyway. "Oh, well there's that law in Germany, so we probably shouldn't show it either".

No.

Or not

Probably crucial to this is I couldn't remember if they referred to it, at all, elsewhere in the broadcast, which is obviously germane to determining their motivations in this case.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Oh aye, I'm just curious if that was the justification for e.g US news outlets not showing it.

Nah those are cunts

 

[spitfire]

 

[brogdale]

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Top work!

 

[Hollis]

 

[editor]

This one amuwed me

 

[Ted Striker]

They seem more than happy to do so when it's football wankers doing it.

 

[tommers]

Elon Musk admits account-boosting on PoE2 and Diablo 4 but says deal with it: 'What would I be apologizing for?'

Used his IRL loot button.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[editor]

Doesn't look better from this angle

 

[Yossarian]

Musk's daughter knows what she saw