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Twitter is by no means left. It's where Trump used to hang out, it's where the entire right wing griftosphere (Shapiro, Trump Jr, JonTron, Czernovich et al) st

Twitter is by no means left. It's where Trump used to hang out, it's where the entire right wing griftosphere (Shapiro, Trump Jr, JonTron, Czernovich et al) still hang out. The only mob I've ever experienced is right wingers storming the capitol while decrying cancel culture.

systemvoltage 5y ago
A miniscule portion of the right wing supports storming the Capitol (which seems to be the clutch), and far more people on the left wing speak out against cancel culture (myself included). Twitter immediately pulled Trump the moment he left office. It had no spine to do it earlier, which if the leadership had any consistency in their morals would have done a lot earlier. Anyways, this is just my hunch and trying to observe some trends. It could be completely wrong.
- malermeister 5y ago
  Here's an article from today contradicting your initial claim pretty neatly: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740703/twitter-algorithm-right-wing-amplification-study https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740703/twitter-algorit...
  - systemvoltage 5y ago
    I was thinking perhaps about the leadership (Jack vs. Zuck/Thiel). This is good clarification regardless.
    - malermeister 5y ago
      Interesting. Jack strikes me more of a right wing libertarian type, where did you get the left wing impression from?
      - systemvoltage 5y ago
        Jack is left liberatarian, Thiel is right liberatarian. I've studied Thiel quite a bit, haven't studied Jack as much. It's also possible that they are both left in pre-2015 era, but the left has moved further out today (likewise, the far right is unrecognizeable today). I consider them all intellectuals and interesting.
        malermeister 5y ago
        I'm not sure being left libertarian is compatible with being a CEO as left libertarianism calls for abolishing private ownership of the means of production... (maybe elected CEO of a coop might be compatible with those views? either way, nothing like what Twitter is doing)

systemvoltage 5y ago

A miniscule portion of the right wing supports storming the Capitol (which seems to be the clutch), and far more people on the left wing speak out against cancel culture (myself included). Twitter immediately pulled Trump the moment he left office. It had no spine to do it earlier, which if the leadership had any consistency in their morals would have done a lot earlier. Anyways, this is just my hunch and trying to observe some trends. It could be completely wrong.

malermeister 5y ago
Here's an article from today contradicting your initial claim pretty neatly: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740703/twitter-algorithm-right-wing-amplification-study https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740703/twitter-algorit...
- systemvoltage 5y ago
  I was thinking perhaps about the leadership (Jack vs. Zuck/Thiel). This is good clarification regardless.
  - malermeister 5y ago
    Interesting. Jack strikes me more of a right wing libertarian type, where did you get the left wing impression from?
    - systemvoltage 5y ago
      Jack is left liberatarian, Thiel is right liberatarian. I've studied Thiel quite a bit, haven't studied Jack as much. It's also possible that they are both left in pre-2015 era, but the left has moved further out today (likewise, the far right is unrecognizeable today). I consider them all intellectuals and interesting.
      - malermeister 5y ago
        I'm not sure being left libertarian is compatible with being a CEO as left libertarianism calls for abolishing private ownership of the means of production... (maybe elected CEO of a coop might be compatible with those views? either way, nothing like what Twitter is doing)