A follow-up to: https://hexbear.net/post/3100832

is-this speech-side-l-1 Is this white genocide? speech-side-l-2

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    1 month ago

    The website that whitelisted a bunch of slurs (all specific to minorities) and is 'cancelling woke culture' is deep-sixing liberal accounts?

    Who would have ever suspected. What's the betting line on how many months before Twitter goes under completely or Musk is forced out?

    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 month ago

      While I suspect Twitter is doing all these things, that screenshot was most likely fake. It's more likely that existing word filters were altered (which would be inside the closed source for twitter) and that the moderation team has been culled and replaced with like-minded sycophants.

      I'm surprised how long it's lasted, honestly. I do wonder when the scales of legality become tipped in a way that causes campaigners\PACs to sue Twitter directly for interference in their operations.

      • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]
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        1 month ago

        I don't think there's any grounds to sue, given the US legal system's veneration of the right of private companies to do basically whatever they want.

        Florida even passed legislation to prevent social media companies from banning users or deleting posts containing political speech. The Supreme Court sent a case about the law back to the lower courts this year.

        Right wing legal groups and politicians cared a lot about this subject when Trump got banned from social media. Now that there are several right wing social media sites, I very much doubt that our court system will allow anything to be done about this.

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      1 month ago

      Twitter will likely keep on chugging because there’s not a strong replacement for it. Threads has been eh and Blue Sky or whatever it’s called doesn’t seem to have as much traction.