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Elon was quite clear the he bought Twitter to make it a free speech forum where you could openly discuss things, even from non establishment standpoints. And t
by BurningFrog 1y ago
Elon was quite clear the he bought Twitter to make it a free speech forum where you could openly discuss things, even from non establishment standpoints.
And that's what it's become.
- oceansky 1y agoExcept if you post "cisgender" or if you track Elon Musk's jet. Edit: oh, and if you want to block his account from your feed, you can't
- blipvert 1y agoAww, that’s sweet. Only time I’ve been kicked off Twitter (permanently, no comebacks) was under Elon’s rule.
- BurningFrog 1y agoDo you want to share for what?
- wredcoll 1y agoAre you going to judge whether or not he was using the right kind of speech?
- BurningFrog 1y agoJust curious. I'm even open to change my mind a bit about 2025 Twitter.
- blipvert 1y agoMy display name looked a bit like his. Hadn’t logged in for a few days, bam. What a sad, sore rich boy he is.
- BurningFrog 1y agoOK, that's super annoying! As someone overly prone to provocative wordplay, that could have been me... Quite separate from the political censorship issues though.
- blipvert 1y agoAnd, of course, there was the blocking of federally protected ATS-B data, and the expulsion of journalists who had written critical stories.
- yoyohello13 1y agoHas it? I’ve never actually engaged with twitter. I always thought it was an echo chamber. From the outside looking in though it seems like twitter is the same pre-Elon as post-Elon. The difference is just which views are the blessed ones.
- BurningFrog 1y agoI see people advocating all known political views. Pre Elon, any non progressive opinions were heavily weeded out by moderators. Of course, most progressives have left now that they encounter opposing views (AKA "fascism"), so you could think of it as an echo chamber. But it's not forced to be one by the site.
- watwut 1y ago> Pre Elon, any non progressive opinions were heavily weeded out by moderators. This is 100% a lie. Open nazi advocating violence were suppressed, but back then there were people who claimed they are conservatives or right wing who were not nazi. Funny enough, open communists advocating violence were suppressed too back then. In fact, left was policed more strictly then the right.
- monkey_monkey 1y ago> And that's what it's become. Hilariously incorrect.
- watwut 1y agoNo, he never intended that nor done that. He wanted to make it more biased toward right wing then it already was (and it was already biased toward conservatives in its moderation). Twitter did not became more open for all point of view. It became exclusively more far right friendly. Elon Musk censors and suppresses whatever speech he does not like whole his life.
- hombre_fatal 1y ago[dead]
- simonw 1y agoHere's an incident from September 2024 where links were blocked to a newsletter containing a hacked document with potentially damaging information about JD Vance - and the journalist who published that newsletter then had their account suspended: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255298/elon-musk-x-blocks-jd-vance-dossier https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255298/elon-musk-x-bloc...
- jfengel 1y ago"Non-establishment" is a funny way to spell "Nazi".