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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 e
by 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 agoThe 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 agoMusk 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.