I take this as a compliment for X and Musk, seeing as this comes from Ann Hidalgo, the lady who brought the Socialist Party to under 5% of the vote at the last presidential elections in France.
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#102There is something I really like about X. If you want to find coverage of the Palestinian position you can read it, and listen/participate in a space. If you want to find coverage of the Israeli position you can read it, and listen/participate in a space. To me it says that X is not practicing viewpoint discrimination for this issue which is actually heavily censored in much of legacy media.
And if you want to find somebody saying that some people should not exist on the planet, you can find the CEO retweeting it, or replying with something like "this is the actual truth".
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's compatible with freedom of speech. He's not censoring it, but he can show damages from misleading speech.
> That's compatible with freedom of speech. He's not censoring it I would rather have my account "censored" then being forced to spends tens of thousands of dollars on lawyers.
lol unless you're in the business of publishing I'm unclear how this applies to you.
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#104X is the best social media platform out there at this point. What are the alternatives? Meta's Facebook, Instagram? TikTok? It's just bollocks. X is where a lot of interesting people post, and where freedom of speech is the most upheld. Community notes is also a super interesting aspect. It's not X's fault someone follows nazis or whatever and don't know where the mute / block buttons are.
A sewer is the best way to flood crap. "Shitposting" is a term popularized within this medium of exchange. People have been conditioned and encouraged to share their momentary disposable thoughts on the platform in an impulsive manner for over a decade. As a result: outrage, controversy, demagoguery and subsequent deleting of such impulsive and unfiltered crap is very common. A lot of it is also unintelligible drivel…
> As a result: outrage, controversy, demagoguery and subsequent deleting of such impulsive and unfiltered crap is very common.
100% depends on who you follow. It says more about the follower than the platform to be honest.
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#105As a Parisian closely following Mayor Hidalgo's activities, her departure from Twitter amidst this controversy doesn't surprise me. The details about her Tahiti trip, costing €60,000 from our taxes, emerged on Twitter, during which she could not perform any official duties but instead visited her daughter and enjoyed a long vacation with her staff. [1]
The trip, supposedly for inspecting Olympic facilities even though this was revealed to be impossible due to local conditions, now seems like a gross misappropriation of public funds. This does not sit well with many of us concerned about how our taxes are spent, and there's been a formal complaint by an Anticorruption NGO. [2]
When confronted about this she deflected by pointing out that every year her first trip with her whole team is at Auschwitz, and she accused her detractors of not being willing to go there with her next year. The obvious instrumentalization scandalized the opposition.
[1] https://www.bfmtv.com/paris/interpellee-sur-ses-voyages-anne...
[2] https://www.lequipe.fr/Tous-sports/Actualites/Une-associatio...
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#106X is the best social media platform out there at this point. What are the alternatives? Meta's Facebook, Instagram? TikTok? It's just bollocks. X is where a lot of interesting people post, and where freedom of speech is the most upheld. Community notes is also a super interesting aspect. It's not X's fault someone follows nazis or whatever and don't know where the mute / block buttons are.
> where freedom of speech is the most upheld. This is only true if one defines freedom of speech extremely narrowly; specifically if you want to use racial slurs, or if you want to attack lgbtq folks. Material criticism of Elon or his endeavors routinely results in bans. This has resulted in him banning numerous high profile journalists. Elon banned individuals who posted Elon's locations, after Grimes used that info…
even if this is true, whatever
you know what isn't banned now? having centrist, or even right wing opinions
you can also see the violence and terrorism that the mainstream media refuses to report on
there's a lot of political voices that are being allowed to speak finally, whereas before they've been stifled due to political persecution coupled with insane deplatforming. X as a free speech platform is doing a great job at showing how widespread political gaslighting has become.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone can unfollow those people. Nobody on my timeline is screaming curse words or racist crap. The real reason X is being attacked is because the Following tab doesn't inject propaganda like every other social media / news website does, other than ads of course.
I think a big part of the problem is the 'For You' feed, which has been trash since the day it was implemented (on practically every social media platform). I remember it being a big pain to get to the chronological feed years ago when they first implemented the curated feed as a default. It may not have been quite so full of ignorance and hate back then, but it was still full of things I had no interest in. I still…
Yeah replies are a mixed bag. Some are funny, some are sad, some are just downright scary, but I like being treated like an adult and being able to choose which I spend time with, something that Americans haven't enjoyed from any other social media site in many years now.
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#108X is the best social media platform out there at this point. What are the alternatives? Meta's Facebook, Instagram? TikTok? It's just bollocks. X is where a lot of interesting people post, and where freedom of speech is the most upheld. Community notes is also a super interesting aspect. It's not X's fault someone follows nazis or whatever and don't know where the mute / block buttons are.
> where freedom of speech is the most upheld. This is only true if one defines freedom of speech extremely narrowly; specifically if you want to use racial slurs, or if you want to attack lgbtq folks. Material criticism of Elon or his endeavors routinely results in bans. This has resulted in him banning numerous high profile journalists. Elon banned individuals who posted Elon's locations, after Grimes used that info…
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's your source for these claims? Can you link to it, please?
I’m too lazy to search for Elon’s original tweets about this. But it was reported in media quite recently about him going “thermonuclear”. Here’s one article about it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/11/18/elon-musk...
Nothing in that article backs up anything you've claimed.
Seems safe to conclude that you don't have any actual sources, and that you're making up the facts you've been asserting ITT.
Feel free to make me look stupid by responding with links to sources that verify your claims ITT.
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#110Don't call "X" anything other than Twitter. It's like don't call "Meta" anything other than Facebook.