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Elon paid 44 billion for twitter's existing users and wanting to overthrow the censorship regime that was defacto the standard before Elon bought twitter. Thank
by canadiantim 4y ago
Elon paid 44 billion for twitter's existing users and wanting to overthrow the censorship regime that was defacto the standard before Elon bought twitter. Thank god Elon bought twitter and made it possible for other social media sites to be more open to free-speech.
- dom96 4y agoFrom my perspective Twitter has become more censorship prone than ever before after Elon took it over.
- rahmeero 4y agoAlso, for whatever reason, the quality of conversation has declined on Twitter since Elon.
- Shekelphile 4y ago'Censorship regime'? In the time since Musk took over twitter I've gotten right-wing tweets forced into my feed despite not following a single right winger and a ton of high profile people have been banned for speaking out about him. Not to mention that old Twitter never hamfistedly censored people by straight up shadowbanning users for using the words 'mastodon' or 'substack' in their tweets.
- nemo44x 4y agoYou literally said Twitter is less of an echo chamber and that makes me upset. I enjoy seeing a wide spectrum of ideas.
- Shekelphile 4y ago[flagged]
- nemo44x 4y agoYour “Following” feed only contains who you are following so the smooth brained right wingers shouldn’t show up there. If you see a smooth brained right wing tweet in the “For You” feed you can mark it as “Not Interested” and the algo will stop suggesting smooth brained right wing tweets.
- Shekelphile 4y agoYour snark isn't needed. I'm obviously not a user of the 'for you' timeline and still got those artificially promoted tweets from people I don't follow and were not retweeted by those that I do. It's why I stopped using twitter and I see no reason to change that.
- jddj 4y agoWatching the increasing polarisation of the public's opinion of Elon as he's inserted himself into the culture wars has been such a bizarre experience. I guess by now he probably appreciates people going off the deep end for/against him.
- jacquesm 4y agoThat 'censorship regime' (your words, not mine) was doing a very good job compared to the clown running it today.
- Kye 4y agoSomehow Elon's Twitter is even worse for anything remotely queer. I run into the "sensitive content" click walls any time I follow a link to anything on furry Twitter these days, and it's never a tweet that remotely warrants it.
- jacquesm 4y agoI wasn't expecting anything different from a company run by the archtypical techbro. Musk is doing a lot of damage in a very indirect way: plenty of people see in him their justification for being jerks.
- tenpies 4y agoEveryone likes the censors when they are on their side.
- jacquesm 4y agoYes, but Twitter was arguably doing a reasonably good job of that part of their mission. You can debate about the business side, it's not easy monetizing something like that but they showed rather a lot of restraint and if they messed up they fixed things. The people that see this differently are typically the same people who believe that 'the Twitter files' were revelatory, when in fact they weren't. Strong overlap there with eternal Trump supporters and various complot theory proponents, I'm not sure what degree of evidence would be able to convince people like that.
- mikestew 4y agoAm I right in that it's Poe's law[0] that's getting the workout today? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law