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Nice story, but BS. "Reddit’s latest Series F of $410 million dollars was funded by two lead investors. Fidelity Management and Research and Khaira Capital." The only source I could find that company is involved is crunchbase, which anyone can edit.
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You also mean they were victims of social media propaganda and gaming the system /R/the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots. If you're pro free speech you'll need to answer towards the onslaught of bot based content generation and fake users
The amount of bots on most social media is just staggering. I had a weird one on Reddit the other day, and in thinking back, I rather wish I had saved it than just reporting it. There were a comment under one post from 2 different users that was exactly the same. It was a somewhat well though out comment on the shorter side so it caught my eye. When I looked at both the accounts they had the exact same post history,…
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>Who is the arbiter of that? Which authority gets to judge that? The owner(s) of the platform or service. As per the terms of service you agreed to in exchange for an account on that platform or service.
But what about all the people banned for “misinformation” regarding Covid lab leak, etc? That was not misinformation it turns out. The platform is pressured to arbitrate a certain way and is a political tool. Musk opening up speech will be a breath of fresh air.
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The amount of bots on most social media is just staggering. I had a weird one on Reddit the other day, and in thinking back, I rather wish I had saved it than just reporting it. There were a comment under one post from 2 different users that was exactly the same. It was a somewhat well though out comment on the shorter side so it caught my eye. When I looked at both the accounts they had the exact same post history,…
oh you
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Wasn't Ellen Pao pro-free speech? https://www.cnet.com/culture/former-reddit-ceo-defends-ellen...
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>Who is the arbiter of that? Which authority gets to judge that? The owner(s) of the platform or service. As per the terms of service you agreed to in exchange for an account on that platform or service.
But what about all the people banned for “misinformation” regarding Covid lab leak, etc? That was not misinformation it turns out. The platform is pressured to arbitrate a certain way and is a political tool. Musk opening up speech will be a breath of fresh air.
The lab leak hypothesis - or rather the various theories and conspiracies that get grouped under that banner - remain just that as far as I know. I'm willing to consider it misinformation given that the obvious purpose of much of it was to implicate that the Democratic Party/WHO/Fauci in some kind of bioweapons conspiracy or feed off of anti-Chinese xenophobia. But certainly, given that it remains unproven, I would consider claims to the contrary to be misinformation.
And... what about them? Were they lined up against a wall and shot or something? Were they sent to camps? Were their homes raided and their literature burned? As far as I can tell discourse in this area never even faltered anywhere online, it continued and continues unabated still.
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But what about all the people banned for “misinformation” regarding Covid lab leak, etc? That was not misinformation it turns out. The platform is pressured to arbitrate a certain way and is a political tool. Musk opening up speech will be a breath of fresh air.
There was a huge spike in unsolicited assaults on Asian americans and asian immigrants so you can see the incitement of further violence logic even if that was so much more nebulous and indirect. Private company and all. Twitter should be nationalized if the first amendment has to apply.
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But what about all the people banned for “misinformation” regarding Covid lab leak, etc? That was not misinformation it turns out. The platform is pressured to arbitrate a certain way and is a political tool. Musk opening up speech will be a breath of fresh air.
> But what about all the people banned for “misinformation” regarding Covid lab leak, etc? That was not misinformation it turns out. The lab leak hypothesis - or rather the various theories and conspiracies that get grouped under that banner - remain just that as far as I know. I'm willing to consider it misinformation given that the obvious purpose of much of it was to implicate that the Democratic Party/WHO/Fauci i…
I bet anyone will answer: "surely not!" and than the point: why we do not came back to Usenet quickly instead of keeping up such services who happen to be unbalanced in usefulness terms?
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> But what about all the people banned for “misinformation” regarding Covid lab leak, etc? That was not misinformation it turns out. The lab leak hypothesis - or rather the various theories and conspiracies that get grouped under that banner - remain just that as far as I know. I'm willing to consider it misinformation given that the obvious purpose of much of it was to implicate that the Democratic Party/WHO/Fauci i…
I think banning it makes it worse. Now they really think it’s a conspiracy. There’s always going to be stupid ideas around things. You can’t just ban it.