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Twitter does allow much more free speech than before the acquisition.
by cubefox 3y ago
Twitter does allow much more free speech than before the acquisition.
- FranzFerdiNaN 3y agoYes, Twitter does allow you to be racist and transphobic as fuck now. What a win.
- cubefox 3y agoPreviously things would be censored that were legitimate statistical data. Data can't be racist, but the old Twitter moderation team didn't care.
- astrange 3y agoHate to break it to you but when Professor Skullmeasurement went to an African country in 1920 and gave people IQ tests in a language they didn't speak then wrote a paper about it, that data is in fact racist. Or more recently, Harvard's algorithms that mathematically demonstrate Asians don't have interesting personalities. https://twitter.com/achenfinance/status/1676008389804019713 https://twitter.com/achenfinance/status/1676008389804019713
- cubefox 3y agoIt's US data. To claim it is racist and censor it is exactly the problem.
- astrange 3y agoNo, it's less safe for it because he fired all the lawyers protecting you from governmental consequences of speech. The moderation didn't actually change either though. They unbanned a bunch of people once, but as I said I've gotten a fair number banned again since they can't stop themselves.
- cubefox 3y agoSome things are definitely sayable now that could easily get you blocked before.