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X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and where freedom of speech is the most upheld. Elon is literally suing for speech he doesn't like.
That's compatible with freedom of speech. He's not censoring it, but he can show damages from misleading speech.
In this case it was specifically intentionally misleading (something they have logs to prove), and weaponized against the business of X itself.
Clearly different from some random internet person saying something controversial or unpopular.
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Which is a pretty stupid comment to make given they are hosting the Olympics next year.
A ridiculous amount of effort has been made to clean up the city even going so far as to make the Seine swimmable by athletes and the general public. Not sure of any major city where that is possible.
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#34There is sewage in X, sewage in your city, and sewage in your home. X is what you make it to be. I spend little enough time on it that the small amount of content I do consume from it doesn't offend me. What I have noticed is the vast amount of criticism of X during the FB Threads rollout. Unsurprisingly, it's dead. Threads has no reason to be immune to the alleged dysfunction that's seen on X. My theory is that it w…
That is somewhat true for a low-profile account. When mostly reading.
It is a lot less true for a high-profile account, which is receiving tons of replies and other interactions, where the sewage swamps out and flows towards you.
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#36To be honest, Twitter/X has been a sewer for a good decade or so. The only thing that has changed is the kind of sewage that is allowed or encouraged to flow through it.
I would rather say that Twitter had a sewer, but you didn't have to climb into it if you didn't want to, and it mostly didn't back up into everyone's homes and onto the streets.
The new mayor of Twitter/X has decided that he likes the smell of his own shit and that everyone else should be forced to experience it, so we get piles of vapid idiotic blue check marks dominating discussion rather than the comments that are considered best by the crowd.
Despite all the shit flowing in the streets, it can still be somewhat avoided, and there is valuable information on Twitter that I can not find from any other source. High quality curators of information about computational biology, energy, housing politics, etc. do not have as large a presence on any other social network yet. I just need to avoid any viral tweets or anything from the "For You" or trending topics, and I can avoid stepping in the worst of it.
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#37When was Twitter not a sewer?
never, but from her perspective she probably means it wasn't a sewer back when "the good guys" were the only ones using it to manipulate public opinion to sway elections and foment civil unrest in foreign countries.
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#38Then what is Facebook/Tiktok?
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#39lol, lots of salty Twitter users in these comments It was a sewer long before Musk took over, that's why the previous owners were so happy to dump it on him, cash out and let him polish that turd
> let him polish that turd
Not sure that is the right choice of words given how many advertisers and revenue has left the company.
Even Musk himself has acknowledged that the company is now worth a fraction of what he paid for it.
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Which is a pretty stupid comment to make given they are hosting the Olympics next year. A ridiculous amount of effort has been made to clean up the city even going so far as to make the Seine swimmable by athletes and the general public. Not sure of any major city where that is possible.
It's funny how cities clean themselves up only when the rest of the world is looking at them, e.g Olympics, only to fall into disrepair the moment that's gone, because why would the government ever care about its own people, right?