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I’ve watched as the internet changed from this wondrous bastion of free speech into curated gardens acceptable to advertisers. Just the other day Facebook flag

by wincy 4y ago

I’ve watched as the internet changed from this wondrous bastion of free speech into curated gardens acceptable to advertisers. Just the other day Facebook flagged me for hate speech because I used some analogy that wasn’t at all hate speech or advocating for violence. Satirical in nature, but I’m sure I used some flag words like “Nazi” and “Hitler”. We’ve all been slowly trained by an algorithm to make sure we don’t say the no no words, and more keep appearing. So you end up with people in Wall Street Bets saying they’re all “highly regarded” because they’ll get in trouble if they say what they used to say. As I’ve gotten older instead of feeling like an adult I’m feeling more and more like a child being nannied by all these services. If I worked at Twitter and Musk does precisely what he says, ensures you can say anything you can legally say in the US on Twitter, I feel like I’d be doing some good in the world to work for the company.

trog 4y ago
> I’ve watched as the internet changed from this wondrous bastion of free speech into curated gardens acceptable to advertisers. How do you respond to Musk's idea of requiring people to sign up to Twitter with their real name and/or ID? That seems to me that it would have an absolutely massive chilling effect on free speech and I cannot understand how free speech warriors would be behind that at all. I am not a free speech absolutist but even I recognise the need for anonymous free speech on a service like Twitter. You'd cheerfully go and work in service of that goal?
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fzeroracer 4y ago
He's not going to do any of what you think he's going to do. You're putting him on some sort of free speech pedestal when that's not how he acts or treats people, especially those at his company or those that he particularly dislikes. He's a billionaire using his billions of dollars to try and control social media in a way that's favorable to him and he's not above singling out people who dare speak out against him like in the diver scenario.
- concordDance 4y ago
  He'll improve free speech for those who don't personally upset him, which is a large increase in free speech on twitter.
  - timeon 4y ago
    So it is not about free speech. Just politics as always.

by wincy 4y ago

trog 4y ago

> I’ve watched as the internet changed from this wondrous bastion of free speech into curated gardens acceptable to advertisers. How do you respond to Musk's idea of requiring people to sign up to Twitter with their real name and/or ID? That seems to me that it would have an absolutely massive chilling effect on free speech and I cannot understand how free speech warriors would be behind that at all. I am not a free speech absolutist but even I recognise the need for anonymous free speech on a service like Twitter. You'd cheerfully go and work in service of that goal?

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fzeroracer 4y ago

He's not going to do any of what you think he's going to do. You're putting him on some sort of free speech pedestal when that's not how he acts or treats people, especially those at his company or those that he particularly dislikes. He's a billionaire using his billions of dollars to try and control social media in a way that's favorable to him and he's not above singling out people who dare speak out against him like in the diver scenario.

concordDance 4y ago
He'll improve free speech for those who don't personally upset him, which is a large increase in free speech on twitter.
- timeon 4y ago
  So it is not about free speech. Just politics as always.