#fuckbiden works, #fucktrump gets censored. They better have a good explanation for why this is a bug.
That can’t possibly be a bug…
Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram
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#52#fuckbiden works, #fucktrump gets censored. They better have a good explanation for why this is a bug.
The question for the people who find this outrageous, why didn't you find the opposite situation just as outrageous? For years, liberals have been tacitly and often explicitly endorsing censorious behavior of Twitter, Meta and others as not only legitimate, but desirable. And this outcome is exactly why that was a dangerous position to embrace. Because, soon enough, someone you don't agree with will come into power.…
It never was that blatant;
Liberals did not explicitly ran on "everything has to be free speech";
It is a difference if you censor hate speech or your political opposition
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
They don't need explanations. America signed up for this. Now, everyone is just along for the ride.
"Everyone" worldwide? The rest of the world didn't sign up for this.
> The rest of the world didn't sign up for this.
He didn't say they did, he said America did, and everyone is along for the ride.
But in a way we did, by letting US (or China) control all our social medias.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s especially offputting is the media not covering Elon’s Nazi salute
From the man routinely saying the media lie to you on his own media platform. At least that’s where I’ve seen the video of him doing it, so perhaps he isn’t wrong about that particular thing?
Even the German Bundeswehr withdrew from Twitter because of Musk's endorsement of the far-right extremist AfD. The people who need to be made aware of this aren't the people who are remaining on there (which are people who either already are critical of Musk but are stubborn or can't leave for other reasons, and Musk fans).
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Everyone" worldwide? The rest of the world didn't sign up for this.
In a way they did. Europe outsourced their defense to the US, energy to Russia and manufacturing to China, now getting by all three, rather predictably.
We also outsourced our social media. That has to change - it's literally not safe.
There is a lot of witless verbiage about the "town square", but precious little acknowledgement of the obvious fact that every town has its OWN square, and that's the point.
For the last decade my feeds have been polluted by "content" about Brexit and Trump, almost all of which has been noise/distraction/propaganda. I'm sick to the back teeth of it, and it's time to make it stop.
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#56#fuckbiden works, #fucktrump gets censored. They better have a good explanation for why this is a bug.
The question for the people who find this outrageous, why didn't you find the opposite situation just as outrageous? For years, liberals have been tacitly and often explicitly endorsing censorious behavior of Twitter, Meta and others as not only legitimate, but desirable. And this outcome is exactly why that was a dangerous position to embrace. Because, soon enough, someone you don't agree with will come into power.…
I’ve always been in favor of censoring based on facts. It’s just a shame that one side of the political divide is a lot more prone to… completely ignore the truth. That means it looks like you’re censoring their speech, when what you are really censoring is nonsense.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Everyone" worldwide? The rest of the world didn't sign up for this.
In a way they did. Europe outsourced their defense to the US, energy to Russia and manufacturing to China, now getting by all three, rather predictably.
I'm not sure if I'm more disappointed in you acting like "rest of the world" means europe only, or by you thinking europe is a unified identical blob. My country of france neither delegated its defense to the US nor its energy to Russia, for exemple.
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Do you really believe this? Sincerely and honestly? You believe Elon Musk is somehow showing support for the National-Socialist party of the German working class? How is it possible to get to this level? Truly amazing.
> You believe Elon Musk is somehow showing support for the National-Socialist party of the German working class? No, which is why nobody but people who want to downplay say this stuff. This is the second comment of this kind I saw. He's doing the Hitler salute, with a snarl, once to the crowd and once to Trump. He has no clue who Hitler is or what he did, just like he has no clue what RPC are, or what item level requ…
What is there to downplay? This is why engagement hunters on Twitter/X.com made a side by side comparison of "Democrats doing Nazi salute" over the years, and there are like 10 pictures there doing the same exact thing. It would be as bizarre to say those people were supporting NAZI Germany, too.
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#59- "It violates freedom of speech!" - "This is a free market; if you do not like it use another platform!" - "I thought $conglomerate" had our back! They had rainbows and all; is that all it took them to fold"? - "No, this is not a systemic issue; conversation needs to be steered away from attacking the system and rather its a few bad apples! Go after them and stop asking for systemic changes!" - "Any attempt at regul…
I am against almost all kinds of censorship, the only times I personally believe things should be censored if it's inciting violence/death threats to people. And even then I feel like censorship is probably the wrong way to do it.
And from that perspective, these quotes you're currently touting are ripped out of their context, making them sound asinine despite being mostly on point, fundamentally.
Twitter, Facebook, Google etc are private companies. They should be free to censor whatever they decide to censor.
I would personally hate it if they did, and it'd hope we'd get a competing platform that doesn't censor and that that'd become the standard, but it is what it is.
If a government makes the company censor something, then that is a violation of free speech (which I sadly don't have, as I'm not from the USA). And isn't that what happened in the context of Corona/antivax?
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#60I'm in Europe and I also have the democrat hashtag hidden but not the republican one. Between this and Musk salutes, it's very concerning.
This is not concerning. This is the expected end result of a man like that being re-elected after all he did.