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Not to mention the fact that Twitter will censor views that it does not agree with. Don't support companies that engage in censorship. There's already an alter
by oniMaker 10y ago
Not to mention the fact that Twitter will censor views that it does not agree with. Don't support companies that engage in censorship.
There's already an alternative available, and it's growing: https://gab.ai https://gab.ai
It doesn't solve the problem of giving your data to a company, but it's a hell of a lot more open and inclusive than any other platform.
- riffic 10y agoIs gab.ai an implementation of OStatus? https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/ https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/
- mikeyouse 10y agoGab is predictably filled with Nazis, which isn't unrelated to that idiotic Pepe frog they use as a logo. Who would willingly go there?
- oniMaker 10y agoPeople who believe in freedom of speech.
- mikeyouse 10y agoIf the difference between Twitter's speech limits and Gab's is that the latter allows Nazis and harassment, I think you'll find most prefer "less" free speech.
- cyorir 10y agoDoes Twitter have no right to freedom of speech, when there are alternatives to it? If they don't want to be associated with white nationalists, then why should they allow themselves to be?
- oniMaker 10y agoThat's what I'm saying. They have rights to their platform, and we have the right to use it or not. That's why I linked to an alternative.
- corndoge 10y agoPepe is not a Nazi symbol.
- mikeyouse 10y agoIt doesn't have to be a 'Nazi symbol' for self professed Nazis and white nationalists to identify with it. Check out the mentions of any prominent Jewish person on twitter, it's a cesspool of Pepe frogs telling them to get in ovens or whatever other idiocy they've come up with today. Case in point, David Duke saying "you can't zog the frog": https://mobile.twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/777739648923676672 https://mobile.twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/77773964892367... ZOG = anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that the Jews secretly run most countries behind the scenes.
- mikebay 10y agoFreedom of speech site should support nazis same way as black lives matter movement. We need transparent services, not witch hunting twitter services.
- rvcamo 10y agoThis is categorically false. People who love and want to defend free speech go there. If you want to continue living in a bubble world, stay on Twitter.
- Bud 10y agoOn the contrary, we should support Twitter more after their recent laudable efforts in banning neo-Nazi accounts. There is no freedom to spout hate speech on someone else's platform.
- oniMaker 10y agoYes. Let's support them for justifying their censorship by misapplying a label to whomever they disagree with. Don't agree? You must be a Nazi! A child's argument.
- legodt 10y agowhy are there so many neo-nazi sympathizers on hackernews...
- itwaseverything 10y agoTalk about proving his point... or is this sarcasm?
- legodt 10y agoNo, I meant it without irony
- zimpenfish 10y agoI'm not sure it's "neo-nazi sympathisers" as much as "oblivious young white male libertarians who don't realise the bubble they live in." Admittedly they do tend to sound the same when it comes to "censorship" but I think the distinction helps.
- vacri 10y agoExpecting a tolerant person to be blindly tolerant (of anything) is an adolescent argument. Tolerance is not a binary state, and has never meant a binary state.
- Jerry2 10y ago