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Twitter was a leftist bastion. They censored opponents and favorable media for/of opponents. Everyone said “it’s a private company that can do whatever it want

Twitter was a leftist bastion. They censored opponents and favorable media for/of opponents. Everyone said “it’s a private company that can do whatever it wants” and “free speech needs limits.” Now it’s ruled by someone apparently not actively biased towards leftists (though actually a liberal). And everyone seemingly has soured and claims it’s a bad company now abusing power. It’s hard for me to see this in any other way than leftists scorned that they can’t arbitrarily abuse their opponents anymore through an important private company.

Eddy_Viscosity2 4y ago
He's banning people who make fun of him. I'd call that abuse of power. Especially after all his words about how bad censorship is. So instead of a leftist bastion (which I disagree was true, but that's beside the point), it will now be a bastion of things that Elon finds favorable. Is that better? Depends on your overlap of favorability with Elon's I guess. The use of the N-word on Twitter is up 500% since the take-over, and leftists probably don't like that much -- so looks like he's 'winning'.
- taolegal 4y ago
  > He's banning people who make fun of him. the policy is about banning anyone who's impersonating someone else. there's a major bot issue with accounts pretending to be others, and people are playing coy about it specifically doing this as a political stunt to show how bugaboo Elon is abusing free speech (an issue they generally only argue in favor of when it affects themselves)
  - Eddy_Viscosity2 4y ago
    He was also banning 'clearly marked' parody accounts, that were targeting him anyway. This is in line with his pettiness, like cancelling a blogger's car order because he didn't like the blog, accusing people critical of him of being pedos and so on. The real political stunt was Musk pretending he cared more about free speech than being vindictive against his critics.
    - taolegal 4y ago
      is it free speech to show a decapitated effigy of your political opponents?
      - Eddy_Viscosity2 4y ago
        That's a full on non-sequitur. If you're asking if I think that twitter should moderate content and that some things should be banned. Yes. Does that mean I think that parody account of Elon telling people to drink pee as obvious parody is one of those things? No.
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Eddy_Viscosity2 4y ago

He's banning people who make fun of him. I'd call that abuse of power. Especially after all his words about how bad censorship is. So instead of a leftist bastion (which I disagree was true, but that's beside the point), it will now be a bastion of things that Elon finds favorable. Is that better? Depends on your overlap of favorability with Elon's I guess. The use of the N-word on Twitter is up 500% since the take-over, and leftists probably don't like that much -- so looks like he's 'winning'.

taolegal 4y ago
> He's banning people who make fun of him. the policy is about banning anyone who's impersonating someone else. there's a major bot issue with accounts pretending to be others, and people are playing coy about it specifically doing this as a political stunt to show how bugaboo Elon is abusing free speech (an issue they generally only argue in favor of when it affects themselves)
- Eddy_Viscosity2 4y ago
  He was also banning 'clearly marked' parody accounts, that were targeting him anyway. This is in line with his pettiness, like cancelling a blogger's car order because he didn't like the blog, accusing people critical of him of being pedos and so on. The real political stunt was Musk pretending he cared more about free speech than being vindictive against his critics.
  - taolegal 4y ago
    is it free speech to show a decapitated effigy of your political opponents?
    - Eddy_Viscosity2 4y ago
      That's a full on non-sequitur. If you're asking if I think that twitter should moderate content and that some things should be banned. Yes. Does that mean I think that parody account of Elon telling people to drink pee as obvious parody is one of those things? No.

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