Content moderation that favors a partisan political agenda IS Censorship ??♂️
MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News ought to be shut down forever
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Elon Musk Is Officially Purchasing Twitter for $44 Billion
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Content moderation that favors a partisan political agenda IS Censorship ??♂️
MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News ought to be shut down forever
Why are people freaking out? You can’t stop it.. if he operates it in ways you don’t like then don’t use it anymore. Otherwise chill for a bit and see what happens.
I think I would say the only real content that should be blocked/removed is child abuse images, doxxing/harassment, and fraudulent/malware content.
I don't think we need social media to unilaterally decide that a NY Post story about Hunter Biden's business dealings is off-limits for sharing.
FYI: companies are allowed to censor at will. That has always been allowed and there is no reason to "shut them down" as a result.
There's the problem..
How do you know if a news story is fraudulent content or not?
If a story is totally BS, it shouldn't be shared to zillions of people, right?
Who decides?
See how fast this gets messy?
(not poking at you by the way --- just highlight how hard this really actually is)
Always but twitter was never in the way of that, so what’s the context here?
It's is literally like a gaggle of monkey's throwing **** at each other all day long.
He gets about 1M new followers per week on Twitter now. I don't see him getting bored with it.
Just an observation from someone who does not partake in Fb, Insta or Twitter; an option if someone who has an account who feels is being harassed or targeted is to report it to the local authorities to weed out potential intent or just bluffing or trolling. Another option is to just ignore the mean posts or limit interaction on said platform things that were done well before social media metastasized.
In all due respect I find a certain percentage of population and generation who are addicted to social media and require constant virtual interaction and reassurance from their circle in-order to function, this is extremely sad and probably what contributes to hate, suicide and to a certain degree violence.
How many of those are the "real people" Musk claims he wants to make Twitter about?
It's a shame. I'll remain optimistic, but this could go in a bad direction if he allows for prominent voices who were previously banned for racism, bigotry, and disinformation back on the platform. I expect more hate speech and violence in the future of America.
I meant fraudulent as in "this is Key Bank, please click here to login to you account and claim your $500", not "the sun totally rotates around a flat earth" or "drinking your own piss cures covid" style falsehoods.
The problem isn't necessarily free speech. The problem is the people that yell the most on these social media outlets are from the most extreme spectrums, often with misinformation, and it's leading to collective illusions of reality, right and wrong and what's best for the majority of society.
No better example than how polarized politics are at the moment. Most people prior to social media leaned more in the middle vs the extreme right vs left mentality now.
What's the solution? I don't know but probably not Elon Musk owning twitter.
No better example than how polarized politics are at the moment. Most people prior to social media leaned more in the middle vs the extreme right vs left mentality now.
What's the solution? I don't know but probably not Elon Musk owning twitter.
The banned "Free Speech", which is also known as disinformation, will probably return. There's already too many ignorant kooks online. Twitter will probably become a great home for Qanon. I'm out.
Once the deal closes, the company will be private and nobody will own stock (as I understand it). I believe that also means the board would be dissolved unless the banks providing financing have some agreement to install some degree of a board to help protect their interests.
And as soon as all the terms on hate speech and harassment in every country are addressed we will land not far from where we are right now with Twitter.
That's not what was happening. Please demonstrate where this was happening where the folks who were "silenced" were not violating the ToS.
Will be funny when all the fake news and hatred floods in, and the EU and UK's new laws kick in, and they're faced with moderating the lies and hate away again...