Watching phony, deranged liberals flip out over Musk's promise not to censor opinions they don't like is, for actual liberals, both a joy and a terror.
Watching phony, deranged liberals flip out over Musk's promise not to censor opinions they don't like is, for actual liberals, both a joy and a terror.
Does that mean you're ready to vote for some deplorable conservatives? Because if it doesn't, it's a hollow sentiment.
This will end only when the liberals realize the progressives are more dangerous than the conservatives. I think we're still a ways away from that. Libs have spent too many decades demonizing religious people as homophobic and conservatives as sexist, racist pigs. That kind of hatred requires a lot of cognitive dissonance to overcome. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think we're there yet.
The mask is off. They are saying the quiet part out loud. They're freaking out that they're losing their biased, one-sided echo chamber and control and information and aren't even trying to pretend otherwise.
Sorry. I disagree. Self censorship on MuskтАЩs part tells me he has no answer to the free speech issues he just bought into at Twitter.
He writes something, then pulls it when it gets the wrong attention. ItтАЩs controversial, perhaps embarrassing, or stupid, no matter, he withdraws it. And heтАЩs the owner!
How will he defend your comment when the mob comes after it? HeтАЩll axe it. Will he blame Homeland Security? The Big Censor in the Sky? Thats easy.
Musk is morally ambivalent. No strength of conviction, just looking for a ploy for continued attention from suckers like us.
ItтАЩs concerning to me that weтАЩll read this article and still ignore the reality of what social media actually is. ItтАЩs тАЬContagious, the Jonah Brenner book, brought to life. Social media was created with fine intentions - but itтАЩs been eminent domained under control of the government with just compensation to the owners in the form of massive ad spending and 0% interest rates for acquisition of competing platforms to create large and infinitely controllable platforms all under common ownership.
No one can save social media - and the faux liberals you mention arenтАЩt real people expressing real ideas - theyтАЩre paid employees posting what their job requires of them, the same as any other social media manager at any company.
The issue we face as a society evaluating social media is we still donтАЩt understand what it is тАж. Musk may change that (a pay to play model is an absolute must - but only a start), but his owning the platform alone changes nothing.
Musk has accomplished a lot of great things - heтАЩs also taken a LOT of government money to produce specifically the things theyтАЩve asked him to produce and how and where theyтАЩve asked him to produce it - so assuming Twitter will be returned to the people is like assuming Marcus AureliusтАЩ dream was actually going to come true just because he wished it (before he was murdered)
Watching phony, deranged liberals flip out over Musk's promise not to censor opinions they don't like is, for actual liberals, both a joy and a terror.
Elon is killin' it.
Predicted this catastrophe....and it came to pass.
No company wants their brand on a white nationalists, conspiracy, deranged buffoonery, etc. platform with zero content moderation.
Enjoy that $8.
Enjoy your FrEe SpEEcH!
Does that mean you're ready to vote for some deplorable conservatives? Because if it doesn't, it's a hollow sentiment.
This will end only when the liberals realize the progressives are more dangerous than the conservatives. I think we're still a ways away from that. Libs have spent too many decades demonizing religious people as homophobic and conservatives as sexist, racist pigs. That kind of hatred requires a lot of cognitive dissonance to overcome. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think we're there yet.
The mask is off. They are saying the quiet part out loud. They're freaking out that they're losing their biased, one-sided echo chamber and control and information and aren't even trying to pretend otherwise.
Exactly and all under the guise of "Free Speech" being no more. God they are all so transparent and frankly just clueless.
In one of the first tweets Musk sent out after he closed the deal on Twitter last week he deleted only hours later.
He self censored.
The Who said it best: 'New Boss, same as the old Boss..'
тАЬSelf-censorshipтАЭ is *completely* morally different than top-down censorship.
Sorry. I disagree. Self censorship on MuskтАЩs part tells me he has no answer to the free speech issues he just bought into at Twitter.
He writes something, then pulls it when it gets the wrong attention. ItтАЩs controversial, perhaps embarrassing, or stupid, no matter, he withdraws it. And heтАЩs the owner!
How will he defend your comment when the mob comes after it? HeтАЩll axe it. Will he blame Homeland Security? The Big Censor in the Sky? Thats easy.
Musk is morally ambivalent. No strength of conviction, just looking for a ploy for continued attention from suckers like us.
Which to my mind, the purchase of Twitter was.
He plans on creating a diverse Council to deal with content
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/28/elon-musk-twitter-content-council-trump-ye-tweets
So quite the example he sets for his Council. He cancels his own tweets.
Clearly you don't want to acknowledge his first positive step in creating an unbias content council which is a huge departure from the old Twitter.
Clearly.
He's as afraid of the shadows as the old Twitter.
Perhaps we'll take a look at this again in nine months when he's unloaded Twitter at 10% of the value he paid for it.
ItтАЩs concerning to me that weтАЩll read this article and still ignore the reality of what social media actually is. ItтАЩs тАЬContagious, the Jonah Brenner book, brought to life. Social media was created with fine intentions - but itтАЩs been eminent domained under control of the government with just compensation to the owners in the form of massive ad spending and 0% interest rates for acquisition of competing platforms to create large and infinitely controllable platforms all under common ownership.
No one can save social media - and the faux liberals you mention arenтАЩt real people expressing real ideas - theyтАЩre paid employees posting what their job requires of them, the same as any other social media manager at any company.
The issue we face as a society evaluating social media is we still donтАЩt understand what it is тАж. Musk may change that (a pay to play model is an absolute must - but only a start), but his owning the platform alone changes nothing.
Musk has accomplished a lot of great things - heтАЩs also taken a LOT of government money to produce specifically the things theyтАЩve asked him to produce and how and where theyтАЩve asked him to produce it - so assuming Twitter will be returned to the people is like assuming Marcus AureliusтАЩ dream was actually going to come true just because he wished it (before he was murdered)