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The people that are crying about Elon owning Twitter are so fucking annoying. I even saw one communist that said he was gonna delete his account
How is Elon worse than the previous bloodsuckers that used to own Twitter? He literally didn’t even do anything yet and everybody’s already being so dramatic for what
I bet 99% of people b*tching about Elon can’t even name a single previous board member or major (10%+ shareholder) of Twitter
The problems seem to be with the things he wants. His whole free speech shit is just a mask for right wing/fascist ideologies to make their voices heard without criticism. It’s going to be a platform where fascist propaganda will run rampant. Yes, you don’t have to use Twitter. But that’s not the point. The point is what I said above, it will be a dat right echo chamber and capitalism will always profit off that.
It is worrying.
As opposed to now?
Just because it’s bad now doesn’t mean it can’t get worse
True
Just see how far your free speech will get you if you make leftists post fighting for workers’ rights, or anti Tesla posts of whatever. I’m sure that will go down fine.
Just be an chad like me and never use twitter lol, i am sure my life is much better by not even getting close of that bloody jungle.
Yeah, I’ve even seen some people go on about how they’re freaked out a billionaire can just buy twitter and control said narrative… Like twitter wasn’t owned by one before, not to mention basically all telecommunications and media giants.
That said, I think a lot of people will be disappointed when they find out in practice “free speech absolutism” doesn’t exist. I am holding out some hope he will stop banning everyone who disagrees with the corporate narrative, but my hopes aren’t high with Mr “we will coup whoever we want”.
Although I agree that Twitter has always allowed misinformation and has a political bias, Musk has reportedly fired employees who have spoken in disagreement with his actions and this if anything is pushing the social platform to the right/pro-capitalist, I don’t use it but it seems Twitter has alot of centrists that at least make fun of landlords and lobbying. I just don’t want a doomer mentality where nothing is worth saving.
The issue is that most people don’t seem to understand how much Twitter was censoring when it came to politics, so they assume that Elon is going to be the one to do it
I think its because he said he would put “human authentification” like facebook.
You mean like clicking those boxes that say you’re not a robot or choosing the elephant picture that’s right side up?
No i mean, for example, submitting a legal id to the site, like facebook, or youtube.
Oh that’s only for blue checkmark mfs I’m p sure