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Elon Musk Is Officially Purchasing Twitter for $44 Billion
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I don’t think people realise but you can have free speech and limits on harassment and hate speech. These are two distinct things. I think he’s been more concerned about how people have been shut down due to ‘misinformation’ which is a loosely defined term with too many caveats. I personally see this as a win for society. There isn’t a popular platform that allows free and open conversations and dialogue as they’ve been too concerned about their shareholders as opposed to the beginning overarching future of open dialogue. This should allow an open platform to all, but can still have limits and moderation for harassment such as death threats for example. As much as I disagree with Trump politically, I didn’t like that he was removed from Twitter and YouTube even recently due to misinformation. Because who decided what is misinformation? For example, some political stances or scientific discoveries can take time to be determined to be true, and in the meantime could be seen as misinformation. Yes there can be harm caused by false statements, but taking those voices away instead of countering arguments with dialogue is way more of a slippery slope. I understand private businesses can act how they like and protected speech in America only applied to government and not businesses, but social media has become essential the way in which thoughts and expressions are now shared and this is dangerous to moderate (other than as mentioned for examples of harassment). Although the terms on hate speech and harassment etc will need to be defined, at least without having to worry about shareholders then they can concentrate on these issues without any politics involved. Or at least this is my hope! I may be proven wrong.
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This is probably the adult way to look at this. Even if someone doesn’t like the owner, it’s the platform that matters. Let’s see what happens.
Elon is finally free to call anyone who disagrees with him a 'pedo guy', that is of course just before he bans that person off twitter. Yeah, it's about free speech Elon.
I did a while back, just before Trump got booted, and I only rarely regret my decision.
Open source algorithms will improve third party apps too like Tweetbot. Excited about that.
Every site, even those that claim they won't in the name of free speech, will ban and censor people for violating their terms of use.
Trump’s free speech app Truth Social is censoring content and kicking off users
Nearly 500,000 people are on the app’s “waitlist”.
- Verify all human accounts.
- Stop all the bots.
- Neutral algorithms.
- Edit button (with history).
- Stop hate speech.
- Transparency.
- No shady ****.
- Stop all the bots.
- Neutral algorithms.
- Edit button (with history).
- Stop hate speech.
- Transparency.
- No shady ****.
I hope this doesn't contribute to social networks becoming more politically identified and siloed off, like news outlets. We need more exchange of ideas and experiences and fewer echo chambers.
Ugh. Well that sucks.
Not sure what tools regulators have at their disposal in this instance but here's to hoping they step in.
Not sure what tools regulators have at their disposal in this instance but here's to hoping they step in.
Truth Social has been deleting accounts who do not agree with their views and are much worse at it so far in their wee hours of existence than the big bad bear Twitter conservatives are so scared of.
I fear historians will look back at a handful of billionaires controlling the future of media as why modern socities collapsed.
As they say, we get the leaders we deserve.
As they say, we get the leaders we deserve.
That's what happens when most of the blatant bigotry toward minorities and incessant trolling come from the right.
I’m sorry, did you say something about the NYC subway shooting?
How does the political comment rule work on MR? Or is it just when the speech goes a specific way that it's allowed. Asking for a friend.
People realize that just fine, but it requires content moderation and rules.
The devil is in the details there and it's incredibly hard (likely impossible) to craft rules that necessarily require fairly objective definitions of hate speech, harassment, truth claims, etc
I’m sorry, did you say something about the NYC subway shooting?
I don't know what you're referring to, but okay.
I really like Twitter - its one of the few places to find out what's happening in the news without bias from actually I witnesses in real time. Depending on how this plays out I may be closing my account and I am done with Social Media.