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Titter* defames news outlets by declaring them to be state-affiliated, bans links to competitors, and also HURR DURR DOGE. Enough. At this point its on every o
by kahrl 4y ago
Titter* defames news outlets by declaring them to be state-affiliated, bans links to competitors, and also HURR DURR DOGE.
Enough. At this point its on every one of us for spreading this shit like a terrible chain email from the 90s.
- asynchronous 4y agoDon’t worry, everyone made a big show about how they’re moving to Mastodon remember? If only 5% of the energy used to complain about Twitter was used to improve the FOSS options in the market.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoThe fact that people would rather complain about twitter than work on FOSS says more about FOSS than it does about the complainers.
- JohnFen 4y agoOr perhaps it says that developers don't constitute the majority of twitter users.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- slig 4y agoI still remember the meme that it wouldn't survive the weekend after the layoffs.
- guelo 4y agoThe Mastodon transition had a chance until Elon banned it.
- lanstin 4y agoIt is still growing steadily and is a fun place, especially for software folks. Good emacs conversations, lot of interesting and more data driven GPT conversations. Good maths community. Ok news tho not quite as good as twitter yet.
- Me1000 4y agoI've been a Twitter addict for over a decade. It brought a lot of value to me, helped me meet great people, and helped me get a couple jobs. Mastodon, even with fewer people, has completely replaced Twitter for me. I don't miss Twitter at all, the people who didn't migrate, from what I can tell based on my general mood while using Mastodon, just made me miserable or angry. Also, there's something quite nice about being able to start fresh on a new platform. You can shape it to the experience you want it to be, without all the inertia of your past usage.
- prottog 4y agoTo paraphrase, there are social media platforms people complain about, and ones that nobody uses.
- lanstin 4y agoUnlike a rocket or a car, success in social media comes when no one is praising it, but all are grumbling about it. The difference might be surprising to a more literal minded type. To be sure the same is sort of true for a payments network; no one likes the money changer but they keep coming. But Elon got kicked out of that.
- nequo 4y agoAgreed. For the people who repeatedly express their dislike of Musk or Twitter and yet are still using that website in April 2023, it ought to be a good inspiration for self-reflection about what in their personal emotional lives keep them there. More likely than not, they’d be better off if they stopped using.
- kahrl 4y agoIt is the same people who bitch and moan constantly about the state of their favorite video game sequel, but don't have enough self-control to not buy it if it makes them SO unhappy. Turns out: 1) They're literal addicts. 2) They're not as unhappy as they make themselves out to be, they just enjoy the social interaction through communal outrage. Hypocrites.
- antibasilisk 4y agodefames?
- burkaman 4y agohttps://twitter.com/NPR https://twitter.com/NPR https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/state-affiliated https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https://help.twit...: > State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy.
- antibasilisk 4y agoevidently, policy changed. I'm not sure about NPR but the BBC is most definitely not 'editorially independent'
- burkaman 4y agoCan you come up with a coherent policy that would consider NPR "state-affiliated" but not BBC? That's Twitter's current position. The only argument for NPR is that it has received government funding, which means Tesla's account (and thousands of other businesses) should also have the state-affiliated label.
- antibasilisk 4y agoI'm guessing Twitter just hasn't gotten around to it/doesn't have much awareness of what's going on in the UK. BBC should definitely be classified as state-affiliated media.
- burkaman 4y agoThat's quite hard to believe, since until 3 days ago they explicitly called out the BBC as an example in that help page I linked. Note that they also haven't labeled American accounts such as Voice of America, which actually deserves the label and is owned by the US government. The only explanations are severe incompetence (the Twitter team in charge of identifying state-affiliated media has never heard of the BBC) or malice (there is no such team anymore, NPR was directly targeted by someone who doesn't like them and falsely assumed they are government-funded). I think it's obvious this was malice, but you're entitled to your opinion. Consider though that your explanation accuses them of incredible negligence. If you don't have time to evaluate the biggest media organizations in the world, then you don't roll out a state-affiliated media label to your global platform.
- 22throw22 4y ago[flagged]
- unconed 4y ago[flagged]
- iudqnolq 4y agoThey have a policy that whether an account is state-sponsored news depends on editorial control. Voice of America fits that definition, while NPR doesn't. NPR was just marked as state-sponsored, VOA isn't. I have no opinion on whether this is defamatory, but it does demonstrate that Twitter's management is arbitrary and capricious. Edit: Twitter's term is state affiliated, not state sponsored.
- bink 4y agoTheir original policy literally used NPR as an example of something that wasn't state sponsored. They removed that from the new policy.
- iudqnolq 4y agoBut they didn't change the policy: it's still "where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution". Once again, this shows arbitrary and capricious.
- misssocrates 4y ago[flagged]
- seattle_spring 4y agoYou mean that ridiculous ZeroHedge article that claimed that covid was an engineered bioweapon? Yeah, it was rightfully banned then and it's still dumb now. I love how people innocently claim that it was just "asking questions about a lab leak." If you're defending ZeroHedge as a bastion of truth, you're unquestionably on the wrong side of history.
- misssocrates 4y ago[flagged]
- seattle_spring 4y agoIf "lab leak" were the literal only story in existence that had any relevance then you might be right. Also, moderation is not the same thing as censorship.
- throw89898 4y ago[flagged]
- fortyseven 4y agoThe ol' binary "with us or against us" ultimatum. Life is nuance, bitch.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- mschuster91 4y agoAgreed that the article was as garbage as the rest of the covid/climate denier bullshit... the problem is the complete intransparency and complete lack of accountability that the major social media platforms all have. No matter if it's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit or Tiktok. Moderation standards are in a lot of cases only enforced when there's media attention because some users manage to get enough publicity to get media involved... and in the case of Twitter, even that doesn't help any more now that Musk personally decided to have a ton of outright fascist accounts unbanned. It's a disgrace all around.
- julienreszka 4y ago[flagged]
- lavezzi 4y agoIt’s not Hurr Durr anything. Man is market manipulating again.