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"Watch what they do, not what they say" is a useful principle, here. There's no reason to take his attempt to self-label as a centrist at face value, but there'

by pohl 2y ago

"Watch what they do, not what they say" is a useful principle, here. There's no reason to take his attempt to self-label as a centrist at face value, but there's mountains of evidence that he seeks to amplify the right.

ilikehurdles 2y ago
The previous regime of twitter censored accounts that are to the right, so when that's your idea of a normal, any change that allows all sides to share a platform could be interpreted to "amplify the right".
- dpkirchner 2y ago
  It isn't clear to me that accounts to the right were more or less likely to break platform rules. Has there been any analysis?
  - arp242 2y ago
    In 2019 Quillette claimed to have hard data that "Twitter Treats Conservatives More Harshly Than Liberals".[1] Their data includes upstanding examples of Conservatism such as The American Nazi Party. I kid you not. There's a bunch of accounts in their set where you can have a reasonable discussion about where the limits should be, but tons of them are literal actual self-described Nazis. There's an overview at e.g. [2]. So yes, colour me sceptical on these types of claims. [1]: https://quillette.com/2019/02/12/it-isnt-your-imagination-twitter-treats-conservatives-more-harshly-than-liberals/ https://quillette.com/2019/02/12/it-isnt-your-imagination-tw... [2]: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quillette#Banning_Neo-Nazis_is_oppressing_conservatives.21.E2.84.A2 https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quillette#Banning_Neo-Nazis_is...
- acdha 2y ago
  This assertion is commonly made but never backed up with data, because it’s fiction. Elon Musk even gave full access to various people to try to find something to back that up and they found no evidence of anything like the alleged censorship campaign. Even Matt Taibi was reduced to tricks like pointing to the Biden campaign reporting tweets and hoping his readers were credulous enough not to see that those tweets were non-consensual nudity.

by pohl 2y ago

ilikehurdles 2y ago

The previous regime of twitter censored accounts that are to the right, so when that's your idea of a normal, any change that allows all sides to share a platform could be interpreted to "amplify the right".

dpkirchner 2y ago
It isn't clear to me that accounts to the right were more or less likely to break platform rules. Has there been any analysis?
- arp242 2y ago
  In 2019 Quillette claimed to have hard data that "Twitter Treats Conservatives More Harshly Than Liberals".[1] Their data includes upstanding examples of Conservatism such as The American Nazi Party. I kid you not. There's a bunch of accounts in their set where you can have a reasonable discussion about where the limits should be, but tons of them are literal actual self-described Nazis. There's an overview at e.g. [2]. So yes, colour me sceptical on these types of claims. [1]: https://quillette.com/2019/02/12/it-isnt-your-imagination-twitter-treats-conservatives-more-harshly-than-liberals/ https://quillette.com/2019/02/12/it-isnt-your-imagination-tw... [2]: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quillette#Banning_Neo-Nazis_is_oppressing_conservatives.21.E2.84.A2 https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quillette#Banning_Neo-Nazis_is...
acdha 2y ago
This assertion is commonly made but never backed up with data, because it’s fiction. Elon Musk even gave full access to various people to try to find something to back that up and they found no evidence of anything like the alleged censorship campaign. Even Matt Taibi was reduced to tricks like pointing to the Biden campaign reporting tweets and hoping his readers were credulous enough not to see that those tweets were non-consensual nudity.