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Twitter seems perfectly healthy. I came back after years away. It sounds like you’d just grown used to the previous manufactured consensus.

lost_tourist 3y ago
There are a LOT more MAGA "verified" troll bots on there on anything to do with politics. Why are MAGA people trolling on the Bernie Sanders feed for example? Anyway, it's okay if you only follow mostly "fact-based" accounts and don't bother with any political or news sources.
- sgift 3y ago
  If someone has the words "manufactured consent" in their comment it's a dead giveaway that MAGA bullshitting is what they want, thinking it somehow represents "free speech". So, from the perspective of the GP Twitter is probably now more healthy than ever.
  - catiopatio 3y ago
    People being free to say things you disagree with — including “MAGA bullshitting” — is representative of a return to free speech principles.
    - photonerd 3y ago
      If you have the understanding of a 14 year old, sure. Meanwhile, the understanding of the rest of us has moved to understanding that hate sketch, & toxic environments resulting from it, restricts the speech of minorities. But you’re ok with that as long as no MAGA racist is told to shut up, apparently, so don’t pretend you’re pro-free speech. You’re simply pro-racists.
Applejinx 3y ago
I direct you to Twitter's valuation. So, I take it you're a communist and don't approve of capitalism or a marketplace of ideas showing its preferences by financial support or lack thereof? In fairness, both the MAGAs and the tankies are pretty happy, but then there's precious little difference (or none).
- Levitz 3y ago
  Free and healthy forums don't value as well as curated and highly controlled ones.
  - AlexandrB 3y ago
    The previous "highly-curating" management at least fought politically motivated government takedown request from questionably democratic countries. The current management just rolls over and claims nothing can be done. I wouldn't call this state of affairs "free". More like spineless.
    - cubefox 3y ago
      > The previous "highly-curating" management at least fought politically motivated government takedown request from questionably democratic countries. The opposite is true, old Twitter colluded with the FBI in suppressing political information like the Hunter Biden laptop case, where the FBI falsely labeled accounts as Russian propaganda. There was a lot of stuff like this in the Twitter files, yet the media conveniently failed to report on it.
      - photonerd 3y ago
        The Twitter Files showed nothing of the sort. Can tell you just bought the lies others sold about it through. God, you lot are so easy to grift…
- yanderekko 3y ago
  >I direct you to Twitter's valuation. That's an imperfect correlate of user experience. A lot of sites have banned NSFW content for the sake of their valuations in ways that have obviously agitated their userbase.

lost_tourist 3y ago

There are a LOT more MAGA "verified" troll bots on there on anything to do with politics. Why are MAGA people trolling on the Bernie Sanders feed for example? Anyway, it's okay if you only follow mostly "fact-based" accounts and don't bother with any political or news sources.

sgift 3y ago
If someone has the words "manufactured consent" in their comment it's a dead giveaway that MAGA bullshitting is what they want, thinking it somehow represents "free speech". So, from the perspective of the GP Twitter is probably now more healthy than ever.
- catiopatio 3y ago
  People being free to say things you disagree with — including “MAGA bullshitting” — is representative of a return to free speech principles.
  - photonerd 3y ago
    If you have the understanding of a 14 year old, sure. Meanwhile, the understanding of the rest of us has moved to understanding that hate sketch, & toxic environments resulting from it, restricts the speech of minorities. But you’re ok with that as long as no MAGA racist is told to shut up, apparently, so don’t pretend you’re pro-free speech. You’re simply pro-racists.

Applejinx 3y ago

I direct you to Twitter's valuation. So, I take it you're a communist and don't approve of capitalism or a marketplace of ideas showing its preferences by financial support or lack thereof? In fairness, both the MAGAs and the tankies are pretty happy, but then there's precious little difference (or none).

Levitz 3y ago
Free and healthy forums don't value as well as curated and highly controlled ones.
- AlexandrB 3y ago
  The previous "highly-curating" management at least fought politically motivated government takedown request from questionably democratic countries. The current management just rolls over and claims nothing can be done. I wouldn't call this state of affairs "free". More like spineless.
  - cubefox 3y ago
    > The previous "highly-curating" management at least fought politically motivated government takedown request from questionably democratic countries. The opposite is true, old Twitter colluded with the FBI in suppressing political information like the Hunter Biden laptop case, where the FBI falsely labeled accounts as Russian propaganda. There was a lot of stuff like this in the Twitter files, yet the media conveniently failed to report on it.
    - photonerd 3y ago
      The Twitter Files showed nothing of the sort. Can tell you just bought the lies others sold about it through. God, you lot are so easy to grift…
yanderekko 3y ago
>I direct you to Twitter's valuation. That's an imperfect correlate of user experience. A lot of sites have banned NSFW content for the sake of their valuations in ways that have obviously agitated their userbase.