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> I have a hot take on this topic: Your feed says more about you than Twitter in general. If you see toxic Tweets, that's because you follow people who post tox

> I have a hot take on this topic: Your feed says more about you than Twitter in general. If you see toxic Tweets, that's because you follow people who post toxic Tweets or engage with toxic Tweets. Don't follow these people. But a major source of toxic tweets is buying up all of Twitter. $420 funding secured, "Thailand guy is a Pedo", constant attention-seeking, COVID19-conspiracy theories, etc. etc. Elon Musk's Twitter Account is one of the worst. To see that this man is about to become the owner of Twitter really doesn't strike much confidence in me.

reedjosh 5y ago
> ...COVID19-conspiracy theories... Lab leak was a conspiracy _theory_ a year ago. Today it's _very_ much a serious contender for the source. If people are _crazy_ and blocked or censored for theorizing about conspiracy, then conspiracies will happen. The best solution to bad speech is more good speech.
- dragontamer 5y ago
  https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960 > Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April >> 5:38 PM · Mar 19, 2020·Twitter for iPhone ------ Musk was constantly marginalizing COVID19 statistics and downplaying the effects. There's more than one COVID19 conspiracy. Musk was part of the "not that bad", COVID19 is like the flu, etc. etc. conspiracy theorists.
  - reedjosh 5y ago
    > Musk was part of the "not that bad", COVID19 is like the flu, etc. etc. conspiracy theorists. How is that a conspiracy theory? That's an opinion. Everyone has them. Why would you label him a conspiracy theorist for having an opinion you disagree with? edit: why also is conspiracy theorist considered a pejorative? Conspiracy turns out to be the stuff of history.
    - dragontamer 5y ago
      > having an opinion you disagree with At this point, we can say that "COVID19 will be done by April 2020" is a laughably incorrect response to the COVID19 issue entirely. Elon Musk was 100% the "like the flu", "Gone by April", "Lockdowns are stupid", "masking doesn't work" (etc. etc. etc.) bullshit train. Everybody has their bad takes on various subjects. Elon Musk's COVID19 hot takes are among the worst I've seen. Others include some rather shitty behavior, like calling the Thailand guy a pedo for instance. All-in-all, Elon Musk is NOT a good poster on Twitter, and if he takes over Twitter, I don't think I have much confidence in the long-term benefits of the platform. Its as if other online-trolls decided to take over various media outlets. ------- Do you remember the 2020 election with any decent amount of memory? "COVID19 will go away as soon as the election is over", etc. etc. Tons of terrible takes on the subject. Musk was just part of that, and I daresay that falls into fall on conspiracy nut now that we can look back upon the pandemic with 2+ years of hindsight. But if the COVID19 issue is a bad example / too political for your tastes, then I pivot to the Thailand Pedo guy tweets instead, which hopefully you can agree with me are uncalled for?
      - reedjosh 5y ago
        I disagree with you about Covid. That said we don't need to get into it. Just saying that arguments like: > ..."COVID19 will go away as soon as the election is over", etc. etc. Tons of terrible takes on the subject... are not terribly likely to sway me. In the same nature as you thinking people like that are crazy, I personally find your views to be wild. But it's nice we can both voice them and remain civil. > Musk was just part of that, and I daresay that falls into fall on conspiracy nut now that we can look back upon the pandemic with 2+ years of hindsight. Particularly: > falls into fall on conspiracy nut now Conspiracy is when a group of people conspire. To have a bad opinion is not to be a conspiracy theorist. If you want to call him a nut for a bad opinion, fine, but I just don't think conspiracy theorist makes sense when it has nothing to do with groups of people conspiring. > But if the COVID19 issue is a bad example / too political for your tastes, then I pivot to the Thailand Pedo guy tweets instead, which hopefully you can agree with me are uncalled for? Maybe I'll check out the Pedo guy tweets. I'm not on twitter, and don't know to which you refer. Frankly I couldn't care much less about Musk. I care a great deal about free speech and throwing conspiracy theorist around as a pejorative. The use of conspiracy theorist as a pejorative is an echo chamber way of attacking the message deliverer and dismissing what they have to say out of hand without consideration of their message. We do that too much in today's society, and considering the corruption present, we really shouldn't. > All-in-all, Elon Musk is NOT a good poster on Twitter, and if he takes over Twitter, I don't think I have much confidence in the long-term benefits of the platform. Its as if other online-trolls decided to take over various media outlets. Sure, maybe fair. I don't know. I feel that if he removes moderation and adds free speech, then it will be a net positive. If any billionaire puts their slant on content moderation, I think its a net negative whether I agree with them or not. So, if he somehow does _just_ bring free speech back, then good. If not, then twitter will just be another biased platform as it has been, but with a new bias.

reedjosh 5y ago

> ...COVID19-conspiracy theories... Lab leak was a conspiracy _theory_ a year ago. Today it's _very_ much a serious contender for the source. If people are _crazy_ and blocked or censored for theorizing about conspiracy, then conspiracies will happen. The best solution to bad speech is more good speech.

dragontamer 5y ago
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960 > Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April >> 5:38 PM · Mar 19, 2020·Twitter for iPhone ------ Musk was constantly marginalizing COVID19 statistics and downplaying the effects. There's more than one COVID19 conspiracy. Musk was part of the "not that bad", COVID19 is like the flu, etc. etc. conspiracy theorists.
- reedjosh 5y ago
  > Musk was part of the "not that bad", COVID19 is like the flu, etc. etc. conspiracy theorists. How is that a conspiracy theory? That's an opinion. Everyone has them. Why would you label him a conspiracy theorist for having an opinion you disagree with? edit: why also is conspiracy theorist considered a pejorative? Conspiracy turns out to be the stuff of history.
  - dragontamer 5y ago
    > having an opinion you disagree with At this point, we can say that "COVID19 will be done by April 2020" is a laughably incorrect response to the COVID19 issue entirely. Elon Musk was 100% the "like the flu", "Gone by April", "Lockdowns are stupid", "masking doesn't work" (etc. etc. etc.) bullshit train. Everybody has their bad takes on various subjects. Elon Musk's COVID19 hot takes are among the worst I've seen. Others include some rather shitty behavior, like calling the Thailand guy a pedo for instance. All-in-all, Elon Musk is NOT a good poster on Twitter, and if he takes over Twitter, I don't think I have much confidence in the long-term benefits of the platform. Its as if other online-trolls decided to take over various media outlets. ------- Do you remember the 2020 election with any decent amount of memory? "COVID19 will go away as soon as the election is over", etc. etc. Tons of terrible takes on the subject. Musk was just part of that, and I daresay that falls into fall on conspiracy nut now that we can look back upon the pandemic with 2+ years of hindsight. But if the COVID19 issue is a bad example / too political for your tastes, then I pivot to the Thailand Pedo guy tweets instead, which hopefully you can agree with me are uncalled for?
    - reedjosh 5y ago
      I disagree with you about Covid. That said we don't need to get into it. Just saying that arguments like: > ..."COVID19 will go away as soon as the election is over", etc. etc. Tons of terrible takes on the subject... are not terribly likely to sway me. In the same nature as you thinking people like that are crazy, I personally find your views to be wild. But it's nice we can both voice them and remain civil. > Musk was just part of that, and I daresay that falls into fall on conspiracy nut now that we can look back upon the pandemic with 2+ years of hindsight. Particularly: > falls into fall on conspiracy nut now Conspiracy is when a group of people conspire. To have a bad opinion is not to be a conspiracy theorist. If you want to call him a nut for a bad opinion, fine, but I just don't think conspiracy theorist makes sense when it has nothing to do with groups of people conspiring. > But if the COVID19 issue is a bad example / too political for your tastes, then I pivot to the Thailand Pedo guy tweets instead, which hopefully you can agree with me are uncalled for? Maybe I'll check out the Pedo guy tweets. I'm not on twitter, and don't know to which you refer. Frankly I couldn't care much less about Musk. I care a great deal about free speech and throwing conspiracy theorist around as a pejorative. The use of conspiracy theorist as a pejorative is an echo chamber way of attacking the message deliverer and dismissing what they have to say out of hand without consideration of their message. We do that too much in today's society, and considering the corruption present, we really shouldn't. > All-in-all, Elon Musk is NOT a good poster on Twitter, and if he takes over Twitter, I don't think I have much confidence in the long-term benefits of the platform. Its as if other online-trolls decided to take over various media outlets. Sure, maybe fair. I don't know. I feel that if he removes moderation and adds free speech, then it will be a net positive. If any billionaire puts their slant on content moderation, I think its a net negative whether I agree with them or not. So, if he somehow does _just_ bring free speech back, then good. If not, then twitter will just be another biased platform as it has been, but with a new bias.