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You can tell conservative opinions are censored and suppressed by the way they're constantly shoved down our throats every hour of every day.
by faefox 6mo ago
You can tell conservative opinions are censored and suppressed by the way they're constantly shoved down our throats every hour of every day.
- xigoi 6mo ago[flagged]
- hn_acc1 6mo agoOn X? Citation needed. Elsewhere too.
- traderj0e 6mo agoYeah they're not anymore. Woke opinions were getting shoved until that abruptly stopped a bit before Trump's second term. Which is weird because this didn't happen in his first term. Now we've got Amazon promoting the Melania movie. On Twitter in particular, the woke shoving stopped the moment Musk took over, replaced with it shoving whatever Musk is saying. They're doing less censorship now but are also heavily promoting him.
- xigoi 6mo agoI don’t use X so don’t know about that one, but I see a plenty of “something something trans people eat the rich ACAB kill all men” on Bluesky.
- DonHopkins 6mo ago[flagged]
- unethical_ban 6mo agoSince the person you responded to got flagged/dead, I want to make sure they and everyone else who might think like them listens to this (an hour long, so yay attention span) https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-35im6-2c0a994a https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-35im6-2c0a994a "As the Senate debates the SAVE America Act amid unfounded claims of voter fraud, Jon is joined by Georgetown Research Professor Renée DiResta and Platformer editor Casey Newton to examine what actually threatens our elections. Together, they investigate how algorithms are engineered to push users toward platform owners' preferred ideologies, explore the incentives driving Silicon Valley's rightward shift, and discuss how Republicans have weaponized disinformation to undermine electoral trust and rewrite voting rules in their favor." One topic they cover is the manner in which the Biden admin was communicating with big tech about mis/dis-information, and the multiple ways the Right has either blown it way out of proportion by not getting the facts right, and the way the Trump admin has been doing as much or worse than Biden admin ever did.
- Finbel 6mo agoThere's a certain irony in the fact that whoever you're responsing to got their message removed.
- the_af 6mo agoFlagged, not removed. Subtle difference, not saying it's huge, but you can still see their comments if you enable showdead in your settings.
- unselect5917 6mo agoCensored by a different name is still censored.
- the_af 6mo agoAgreed. I was just pointing out it's not actually removed, and you can still read it (if you go out of your way to do so).
- array_key_first 6mo agoIt's not that conservative opinions are censored. It's that bad opinion with zero merit to any reasonable person, such as insults, racism, sexual harassment, etc, are censored. Unfortunately that means that most conservative opinions are censored. Or, at least, the ones that matter said by our most popular politicians. Rephrased, think of it this way: if I talk like Barack Obama at work, I'm fine. If I talk like President Donald Trump, I'm getting sent to HR on my first day. And that has nothing to do with their political leanings.
- nandomrumber 6mo agoAs though HR are suddenly The Arbiters of Truth and that declining birth rates and increasing isolation are helped by people at working fearing being sent to HR if they make a mistake or say something non-approved. I mean, yeah, those stats are being helped by HR, but not in the direction any sane person would favour.