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How do they force their views on you against your will? Can't you ban them or not use the site?

• ben_w 2y ago
  > How do they force their views on you against your will? My (perhaps unwise) hyperbole for effect aside: A spam filter is not found between my eyeball and my language processing ability, so I can only find out a message is propaganda as a result of reading it. > Can't you ban them I can't ban them because I don't form part of Twitter's moderation team. I could block any specific account, but even that's after the fact of having been exposed. > or not use the site? I thought this was clear from my final 7 words.
  • curtisblaine 2y ago
    > A spam filter is not found between my eyeball and my language processing ability, so I can only find out a message is propaganda as a result of reading it. Ah, but that's... literally everywhere. It sounded like your issue was specific to X, but you can experience the same thing reading a magazine, riding the underground or simply walking around in any modern city.
    • ben_w 2y ago
      Sure, but there's a lot more of them that happen to be on twitter even when it was still called that. Accounts are easy to make, tweeting is almost too cheap to measure. The IRL stuff doesn't scale as easily, and the responses from others take them down rather than boosting them — the "Nicht unser Krieg" graffiti has a constant back-and-forth counter-graffiti that covers up "nicht", for example.