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The future of Twitter should not be akin to a Chinese State platform where millions of moderators pore through every message looking for wrongthink. We should
by cbeach 4y ago
The future of Twitter should not be akin to a Chinese State platform where millions of moderators pore through every message looking for wrongthink.
We should hanker for a network that treats us like adults, able to think critically about what we’re reading. We shouldn’t need a dubious centralised “fact checking” agency of truth to decide that for us.
Musk is a massive sci fi reader. He knows how dystopia forms.
I hope with his purchase of Twitter, he will nip the creeping authoritarianism and surveillance in the bud, and allow the social network to be a true public square for everyone. Good luck to him.
- lovich 4y agoI get the desire, but why do you think Musk would ever make it open? He frequently retaliates against anyone who speaks up against or disagrees with him. He literally is only ever pro free speech when it benefits him and discards it the second it’s an inconvenience
- kelseyfrog 4y agoAs a trans person, I'm not looking forward to the changes that will come with decreased moderation. I'll have to choose between maintaining meaningful[1] community connections and the certain increase of unhinged ideologues doing hate speech and the inevitable irl implications of such speech being normalized. It's a shame that decreases in moderation result in cesspools of conspiratorical witch hunting rather than the rational debate we're so often promised, but the bait and switch is sort of the point. 1. in spite of being digital