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Questions over Twitter's shadow-bans and TL manipulation
- alva 10y agoWorth reading the entire thread.
- MrZongle2 10y agoI wonder if this is why Twitter's Chief of Diversity is leaving: there's little evidence for support of diversity of thought, at this point. The Milo ban was borderline credible; what's happening to Scott Adams and DeSantis is quite troubling.
- DanBC 10y ago> what's happening to Scott Adams Absolutely nothing is happening to Scott Adams outside his own head.
- MrZongle2 10y agoThat's pretty rude. If you're implying that he suffers from mental illness, why are you trivializing it?
- DanBC 10y agoI'm not suggesting he's suffering from mental illness. I'm suggesting he's a conspiracy theorist with bizarre beliefs. I mean, read this. It's grade A bollocks: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/145456082991/my-endorsement-for-president-of-the-united-states http://blog.dilbert.com/post/145456082991/my-endorsement-for... > And I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms.
- MrZongle2 10y agoWell this is far more applicable to my point, and the thread in general: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156806516721/the-social-media-hive-mind http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156806516721/the-social-media-h... If this originated inside Scott Adams' head, then it has manifested itself elsewhere. Unless, of course, he may have a point. Blind squirrel, etc. He's not implying that 9/11 was an inside job, Kennedy was killed by the CIA, or that there's merit to the Pizzagate allegations. He's just saying that perhaps a private company has a political axe to grind, and they're implementing a means of censorship. Which is what the poster in the link in question is doing.