In the past and in some places today profane and obscene material was/is censored and no one bats an eye. Books are being removed from libraries and that has happened apparently for decades. This type of censorship has been completely accepted by all past generations.
We went from censoring things that everyone thinks is bad (CP, death threats), to now censoring opinions which 50% of Americans share, and probably 90% of the world in just a few years.
Wait, I just read this again and don't understand.
"censoring opinions which 50% of Americans share, and probably 90% of the world in just a few years."
What opinion and why would the amount of people believing kt change?
As time goes on, it turns out that pre-Elon Twitter is becoming more and more of a disaster. Now it turns out it was full of porn, and especially child porn which previous leaders didn't care about. Also instead of a company struggling to be consistently profitable it was actually a complete dumpster fire that was doomed to fail in the near future if not for the timely intervention
Pre-Elon Twitter was quite bloated in terms of assessing it as an organisation. Tons of pointless meetings, massive amount of time spent tweaking icons, and a shitload of DEI mandates. The fact that it's now faster and less hateful with half the employees is telling.
“The fact”? Got a source for those facts other than Musk?
> It had a left-bias I don't know what it will take for this lie to die. It has absolutely zero supporting evidence. The data suggests just the opposite. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/01/facebook-youtu... > "There is no evidence to support the claim that the major social media companies are suppressing, censoring or otherwise discriminating against conservatives on their platforms,” Barrett said. “In fac…
"Left-bias" is putting it mildly. It's becoming increasingly clear that twitter censored certain people/content at the behest of the Biden administration.
Show the evidence then. Because the Twitter files confirmed the opposite.
No it doesn't. Defense implies that you are planning to be attacked. Regardless though, it is free speech because the word can mean a lot of things. There are countless videos of Democrats like Pelosi saying we are going to "beat" Republicans. I guess those Democrats should be banned from national television for inciting violence.
"I'm going to beat them in a race"? The word is commonly used to mean win a competition and in fact I'd argue it's use meaning physical violence is rarer. Also being a republican (politican) is a choice and therefore valid to be a target of hatred. People aren't born Republican , however bring Jewish is considered both an ethnic group and religion. This is the key to why it's acceptable to attack a political group ve…
Beat is just the tip. There are countless videos of Democrat leaders saying people has to fight, that they're at war, etc. Kanye wasn't telling everyone to go Death (DEF) CON 3 on the Jews, he was saying he was. He could have literally said he hoped that people would die and it still isn't isn't inciting violence according to the law. Conservatives are good at that, where they are constantly advocating for the murder of trans people which according to Musk is okay cause I still see it frequently from many of the right-wing people he is now associating with and their followers. While I don't agree with his statement, it is far from inciting violence and doesn't break any laws in the US.
Here is one at least https://reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/z95o3g/elon...
"This is likely a fake suspension e-mail made to look as a joke. Actual suspension e-mails include a date of the Tweet." https://twitter.com/EliErlick/status/1598011331658948609?s=2...
“Look as a joke”, you say.
Seems like there’s multiple levels of trolling going on there… the “clarification” was added by readers, and the “link that contains an example of a Twitter suspension email“ links to the New York Post.
Doesn't banning Kanye West from the platform go against his whole "free speech" thing? The absolutists say that there should just be more free speech to drown out the hateful speech. Why isn't he just encouraging people to drown it out instead? I find the unlimited free speech arguments to be disingenuous and lazy most of the time. There's always a limit to speech, and it's not easy to find. That doesn't mean we shou…
Except Musk was never ever for absolute free speech. Also, the free speech absolutists have it wrong. Read speechless: controlling words, controlling minds for a much better and more coherent conservative philosophy on free speech. Absolute free speech is an illusion that has never existed and never will. Our problem in society is that that we censor the wrong kinds of speech and tolerate the wrong kinds of speech. O…
This is completely clueless at this point. What Elon is for changes on a day to day basis.
Apparently, there was a spam/reader DoS attack during the last few days associating porn to Chinese cities, in an effort by PRC's government to disorganize demonstrations against the government and the Zero Covid policy. Could be related?
The last time I saw it was a couple months ago. (I can't say whether or not it continued, I stopped clicking into the trending bar around that time as a matter of unrelated principle that I didn't want my attention to be controlled by Twitter's idea of what's trending.)
Shouldn't this post be titled: 'Elon, let me...' instead of 'Elon: Let me ...' The latter construction makes it sound like Elon is saying those words while in fact the author of the article is saying those words _to_ Elon.
I belive both versions are technically correct (I'm not a linguist), but your suggestion is less ambiguous