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X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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Post by babypuncher »

systemstops wrote: post #75

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I've been growing increasingly skeptical of Musk for years now, and his unhinged behavior at twitter has really cemented my negative opinion of him.

If he didn't want people like me to start ignoring him, and dismissing whatever nonsense products he wants to shill, then he shouldn't have started attaching his name to bullshit culture wars. Now, it doesn't matter if a claim made about him is true or not, I no longer give him the benefit of the doubt, and I don't have the desire or the energy to thoroughly investigate every stupid little fight he gets in anymore. This is a problem of his own making.

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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Post by josteink »

babypuncher wrote: post #83
josteink wrote: post #55

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the only conservative views I've ever seen get "censored" are those pertaining to race, gender, and sexual orientation. You know, areas where some modern conservatives like being discriminatory assholes. I've never seen someone get censored for promoting small government or low taxes.

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Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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Post by wtfwhateven »

ThalesX wrote: post #111
Volundr wrote: post #67

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> freedom of speech is the most upheld As long as you don't want to talk about decolonization ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1725645884409401435 ) or people being cis-gender ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1671370284102819841 ) or whatever else Elon doesn't like this week. For the record, neither or these things are what he claims they are.

That's like... his opinion man. Try posting your own, see if you get banned like the Twitter of old.

If someone tweets "I hate trans people" nothing happens, if someone tweets "I hate cis people" the tweet gets immediately hidden and flagged for hateful content

I saw dozens replicating it last week and I was able to replicate it myself

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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Post by stainablesteel »

lolbase wrote: post #102
OrvalWintermute wrote: post #72

There 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".

you can find comments like this too but they get community note'd for taking things out of context

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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Post by yowzadave »

nomilk wrote: post #80
johnyzee wrote: post #51

The free speech thing is a red herring. Musk said 'freedom of speech' but not necessarily 'freedom of reach', which seems reasonable. This is not the problem. The problem is that the algorithms simply don't work. The sewer analogy is good - shit seems to float to the top, rather than the other way around. Places like HN and even reddit nailed this a long time ago, but any given X feed just looks like an append-only l…

> The sewer analogy is good - shit seems to float to the top, rather than the other way around There are two distinct twitter feeds: 'for you' feed and 'following' feed. The former's like a sewer, but there's no excuse for the 'following' feed being anything but pristine (since it's curated by the user). Something Musk discussed when he bought twitter was how users didn't always know the difference between the two fe…

The other problem (and where I see the worst content) are the replies to any tweet that has achieved significant popularity. Twitter preferentially surfaces subscribers in these replies, which tend to be diehard Elon fans who often behave badly.

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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Post by Volundr »

ThalesX wrote: post #111
Volundr wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> freedom of speech is the most upheld As long as you don't want to talk about decolonization ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1725645884409401435 ) or people being cis-gender ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1671370284102819841 ) or whatever else Elon doesn't like this week. For the record, neither or these things are what he claims they are.

That's like... his opinion man. Try posting your own, see if you get banned like the Twitter of old.

The owner of Twitter literally said I'll get suspended. What more do you need?

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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Post by ThalesX »

wtfwhateven wrote: post #123
ThalesX wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's like... his opinion man. Try posting your own, see if you get banned like the Twitter of old.

If someone tweets "I hate trans people" nothing happens, if someone tweets "I hate cis people" the tweet gets immediately hidden and flagged for hateful content I saw dozens replicating it last week and I was able to replicate it myself

#doubt

Later edit: can confirm, I tried it and I got `Visibility limited: this Post may violate X’s rules against Hateful Conduct.`

This is rather disappointing and it might influence my stance on continuing to pay for Premium.

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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Post by MrPatan »

babypuncher wrote: post #83
josteink wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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the only conservative views I've ever seen get "censored" are those pertaining to race, gender, and sexual orientation. You know, areas where some modern conservatives like being discriminatory assholes. I've never seen someone get censored for promoting small government or low taxes.

Yeah, you never saw it

Re: X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says

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Post by ThalesX »

nurettin wrote: post #120
ThalesX wrote: post #104

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> 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.

You don't even need to have an account (I don't). This is common news.

> You don't even need to have an account (I don't)

Laughing out loud.

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