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Gonna hazard that if the above gets moderated/deleted, our new friend “eff-tagline” won’t complain that my freedom of speech is being impinged.
by freen 2y ago
Gonna hazard that if the above gets moderated/deleted, our new friend “eff-tagline” won’t complain that my freedom of speech is being impinged.
- Over2Chars 2y agoYes, free speech advocates seem to lose enthusiasm for the freedom of speech they disagree with. Curious.
- freen 2y agoThey never seem to be grumpy about spam getting deleted. It’s always “why can’t I be mean to people without consequences?” Or, “I should be able to be racist/ableist/discriminatory and you have to host my vitriol or else you are violating my freedom of speech, private company!!”
- Over2Chars 2y agoI would love to be able to cure the problem of people being mean on the internet. I think it's a million dollar idea, if it's possible. I think it can be done, but it seems that incivility is seen as more profitable, or something? Twitter Japan, for example, is known for being fairly civil. I think even Elon Musk, at one point, said that Twitter Japan was a model for all of Twitter. Go Elon! Then Elon took over and actively, it seems to me, promoted incivility. I think he figured that making Twitter, now X, more controversial would promote engagement. But Twitter Japan showed that people could engage civilly and didn't need controversy to promote engagement. I suspect had Elon chose to make Twitter/X more like Twitter Japan, he wouldn't have lost his advertisers (which apparently were a major percentage of revenue). But the past is history, and Twitter/X is what it is, and is likely to stay that way I think.