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Whether it’s Twitter or the US Supreme Court, I’m amused how the group out of power argues earnestly for restraint of power until the millisecond they gain powe
by crmd 4y ago
Whether it’s Twitter or the US Supreme Court, I’m amused how the group out of power argues earnestly for restraint of power until the millisecond they gain power and immediately adopt their opponent’s previous position for the free exercise of power while their opponents immediately begin arguing earnestly for restraint of power.
- dpkirchner 4y agoSame as it ever was. I'm amused at how many people believed and still believe that it was going to be different this time. Hero worship and unrequited love for Musk is just bizarre.
- salawat 4y agoWhat do you mean "the entire point of having power is to avoid exercising it as much as possible to minimize disruption? We worked hard to get here, now you're telling me not to use it?" Honestly. It's a story old as our collective conception of time. Youth is yearning to power. Being grown up is hoping to $deity that anyone who gets there is too tired or lost to use it to screw things up majorly.
- Pxtl 4y agoThis is unfair bothsidesism. During the "progressive" era of twitter governance, policy was introduced with countless warnings and slow-walks, and had clear justification. There was nothing as naked as the retroactive bans for location info or as anticompetitive as banning linking to your off-site social media profile.
- raxxorraxor 4y agoNot really, it was pretty strong curation of certain narratives and maybe the FBI was also involved. They had pretty strong ties which many already suspected. Whether Twitter employees were groomed into censoring in the interest of state authorities or did it on their own volition is probably to be determined. But I think making the fact transparent was a good step. Because that is vastly more relevant than any other content removal if political interests get involved.