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>I can’t say that Twitter was exactly an exception to this rule, for me. I never liked it enough to contribute my own content to it. I do like its userbase enou
by luuuzeta 4y ago
>I can’t say that Twitter was exactly an exception to this rule, for me. I never liked it enough to contribute my own content to it. I do like its userbase enough to have spent many hours reading it, over the last couple of years. That all came to a screeching halt in the last month or so, when it was acquired by a tyrant.
Oh my hyperbole, what would we do without you?!
>Then came the exodus from Twitter, due to the tyrannical new owner. Many of the voices that I have come to appreciate the most are leaving. In particular, the ones with the highest morals were the first to jump ship. As well they should! If you stay on Twitter, the way it is now, and continue to contribute your content to it, then you are saying that you approve of the tyrant-in-chief banning reporters for writing about things that make him look bad.
Oh my hyperbole! It's interesting to see the dichotomy between people who think Twitter was a safe haven and people who think it was a hellhole.
And you can both support that Elon Musk shouldn't have been so trigger happy banning reporters without a clear policy in place AND that doxxing should earn you an instantaneous and permanent ban.
- allenbrunson 4y agohey, here's an opportunity to respond to a thing i've seen going around a lot. in one respect, elon musk and i agree: the twitter bots that follow airplanes around are egregious and in poor taste. i would be fine with twitter having a policy saying that they are off-limits. ... but that's not at all what he did. his approach was erratic, scatter-shot, and full of post-hoc rationalizations. it's that sort of gaslighting and lying that is the real problem, not being against plane-tracking bots.
- commandlinefan 4y ago> when it was acquired by a tyrant Especially grating when you consider the previous owners were far more tyrannical for a much longer period of time.
- luuuzeta 4y agoExactly! I stopped reading when I reached that paragraph. I cannot take anyone pedestalizing journalists and leftists in general as "the ones with the highest morals" seriously, despite all what was going on with Twitter. After all it's not like it cannot be disproven quite easily. - Opaque moderation (at least more opaque than the current one) - Banning and shadowbanning users despite admitting the administration admitting they didn't violate company's ToS - Soft banning users regularly so they could build a case to outright ban them once and for all - Collusion with some three-letters agencies (see Twitter Files) to censor speech, bury newsworthy stories, etc - Journalists were treated as a separate class above regular users.