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I do agree that he is hyper fixated on specific things like gender but – I do think that there are elements of the “woke mind virus” that are okay with censors

I do agree that he is hyper fixated on specific things like gender but – I do think that there are elements of the “woke mind virus” that are okay with censorship. I don’t think that censorship has any place in a democracy, and I do think it is a problem we need to address. The executive branch asked Twitter to ban a NY Post story on the grounds that it was misinformation when it wasn’t. It was “malinformation”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinformation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinformation They didn’t correct the record, and Ro Khanna emailed Twitter to cut that shit out: https://www.businessinsider.com/khanna-emailed-twitter-free-speech-concerns-over-hunter-biden-laptop-2022-12?amp https://www.businessinsider.com/khanna-emailed-twitter-free-... I really don’t like Elon, but I fear the previous Twitter censors more. Media is supposed to keep the government in check and not the other way around.

pavlov 2y ago
Musk’s Twitter actively censors and promotes content based on the personal whims of the billionaire owner. Is that really better for democracy? The Twitter/X experiment seems to have primarily succeeded in demonstrating that nobody has good solutions for this problem, and just repeating words like “misinformation” and “free speech” doesn’t get us any closer to a solution. Props to Bluesky for trying something else, at least.
- jokethrowaway 2y ago
  The opposite was true before Musk. Some friends have an ancap libertarian and they were targeted before. Woke content is not censored and you can find it on X, it's just that most left-wing people left for alternatives. I went to bluesky briefly and I was inundated by transgender explicit content. I didn't open it again.
  - pavlov 2y ago
    Musk censors mentions of his own daughter on X — the same person who he claimed was dead on a recent interview, but who is very much alive and posting on Threads. That kind of monarch-like behavior didn’t exist on Twitter before Musk. Their protocols for hiding and removing content may have been very flawed, but at least there was a process.
jasonlotito 2y ago
“ I do think that there are elements of the “woke mind virus” that are okay with censorship” Then let’s not focus on some made up boogeyman and ignore the fact that in 2020, the executive at the time was happily reaching out to Twitter and other platforms asking them to remove posts. The guy Musk is supporting was happily asking Twitter to remove posts. But let’s be clear, they were asking Twitter to enforce its rules. And you can argue that the government asking like that is illegal, but I’ve yet to see a guilty verdict in court so, until that happens, Twitter enforcing its rules isn’t censorship. No one has been denied their first amendment rights. More importantly, by Musks own yardstick, Twitter is no longer the bastion of Free Speech it was when he took control. So regardless of what you think, Twitter is worse off now.

pavlov 2y ago

Musk’s Twitter actively censors and promotes content based on the personal whims of the billionaire owner. Is that really better for democracy? The Twitter/X experiment seems to have primarily succeeded in demonstrating that nobody has good solutions for this problem, and just repeating words like “misinformation” and “free speech” doesn’t get us any closer to a solution. Props to Bluesky for trying something else, at least.

jokethrowaway 2y ago
The opposite was true before Musk. Some friends have an ancap libertarian and they were targeted before. Woke content is not censored and you can find it on X, it's just that most left-wing people left for alternatives. I went to bluesky briefly and I was inundated by transgender explicit content. I didn't open it again.
- pavlov 2y ago
  Musk censors mentions of his own daughter on X — the same person who he claimed was dead on a recent interview, but who is very much alive and posting on Threads. That kind of monarch-like behavior didn’t exist on Twitter before Musk. Their protocols for hiding and removing content may have been very flawed, but at least there was a process.

jasonlotito 2y ago

“ I do think that there are elements of the “woke mind virus” that are okay with censorship” Then let’s not focus on some made up boogeyman and ignore the fact that in 2020, the executive at the time was happily reaching out to Twitter and other platforms asking them to remove posts. The guy Musk is supporting was happily asking Twitter to remove posts. But let’s be clear, they were asking Twitter to enforce its rules. And you can argue that the government asking like that is illegal, but I’ve yet to see a guilty verdict in court so, until that happens, Twitter enforcing its rules isn’t censorship. No one has been denied their first amendment rights. More importantly, by Musks own yardstick, Twitter is no longer the bastion of Free Speech it was when he took control. So regardless of what you think, Twitter is worse off now.