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> Social media is trending towards regional balkanisation. By choosing to frame things like that, it almost sounds like multinational monopolies on social medi

> Social media is trending towards regional balkanisation. By choosing to frame things like that, it almost sounds like multinational monopolies on social media controlled by murderous fascist regimes and used to push industrial loads of machine-generated propaganda is something that's somehow preferable.

morkalork 2y ago
Your new digital town square brought to you in part by the House of Saud, where there's free speech for everyone but some accounts are more equal than others and cisgender is a slur.
- chipdart 2y ago
  Saudi Arabia is of course Twitter's second largest shareholder. But Twitter is also owned by Russian oligarchs linked to Putin himself. https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oligarchs-mean-for-musk/a-70088598 https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oli... We're talking about Elon Musk's Twitter, who around the time of Russia's invasion of Ukraine was found to have hardcoded censorship of pro-ukraine content as well as users who posted pro-Ukraine content on Twitter.
  - petre 2y ago
    This is just speculation. I see videos from Ukraine sticking it to the Russians like every other day from Twitter, shared with the news. Also from Telegram channels. The most recent one was with a downed Su-25. Here: https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1828661567094984774 https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1828661567094984774
    - chipdart 2y ago
      > This is just speculation. This is not speculation. When Elon Musk did that stunt on open-sourcing Twitter's source code right after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the source code explicitly included references to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in hardcoded rules to downrank discussions on the topic. https://gizmodo.com/twitter-musk-ukraine-crisis-open-source-code-russia-1850293386 https://gizmodo.com/twitter-musk-ukraine-crisis-open-source-... This is just the stuff he accidentally leaked.
  - signatoremo 2y ago
    The majority of pro-Ukraine content used by journalists are on Twitter. Has always been the case since the very beginning of the war. Take a look at any article on TWZ, like the most recent one: https://www.twz.com/news-features/ukraine-pushing-slowly-west-in-russia-towards-key-kursk-city https://www.twz.com/news-features/ukraine-pushing-slowly-wes...

morkalork 2y ago

Your new digital town square brought to you in part by the House of Saud, where there's free speech for everyone but some accounts are more equal than others and cisgender is a slur.

chipdart 2y ago
Saudi Arabia is of course Twitter's second largest shareholder. But Twitter is also owned by Russian oligarchs linked to Putin himself. https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oligarchs-mean-for-musk/a-70088598 https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oli... We're talking about Elon Musk's Twitter, who around the time of Russia's invasion of Ukraine was found to have hardcoded censorship of pro-ukraine content as well as users who posted pro-Ukraine content on Twitter.
- petre 2y ago
  This is just speculation. I see videos from Ukraine sticking it to the Russians like every other day from Twitter, shared with the news. Also from Telegram channels. The most recent one was with a downed Su-25. Here: https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1828661567094984774 https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1828661567094984774
  - chipdart 2y ago
    > This is just speculation. This is not speculation. When Elon Musk did that stunt on open-sourcing Twitter's source code right after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the source code explicitly included references to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in hardcoded rules to downrank discussions on the topic. https://gizmodo.com/twitter-musk-ukraine-crisis-open-source-code-russia-1850293386 https://gizmodo.com/twitter-musk-ukraine-crisis-open-source-... This is just the stuff he accidentally leaked.
- signatoremo 2y ago
  The majority of pro-Ukraine content used by journalists are on Twitter. Has always been the case since the very beginning of the war. Take a look at any article on TWZ, like the most recent one: https://www.twz.com/news-features/ukraine-pushing-slowly-west-in-russia-towards-key-kursk-city https://www.twz.com/news-features/ukraine-pushing-slowly-wes...