Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform::The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said
I wouldn’t call it “surreal” at all, I’d call it “completely expected” given who runs that platform
Elon Free Speech Musk himself? Never!
He must have a tiny pp to be that insecure
Elon Musk’s pp? As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end. Very tiny.
The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
Depressing how quickly this kind of stuff went from outrageous to completely normal.
Quit. Using. Twitter.
Person eating shit: THIS TASTES BAD, SOMEBODY SHOULD CHANGE THE TASTE
Quit eating shit.
But all my friends are in the shit restaurant!
“But I’ve never had problems with the SS before…”
Louder for those in the back.
I stopped using it before muskrat bought it.
I stop caring after i reported so many bots and a farm started harassing me.
I was on the fence about leaving…I didn’t use it very much to begin with, but it was useful for checking in on bands for whom Twitter was their preferred social media.
But the day that I read that Twitter was considering accepting Lone Skum’'s offer to buy it, I immediately deleted my account. Whether he ended up buying it or not, the fact that they’d even consider his offer told me all I needed to know. Twitter had become such an essential tool for so many oppressed people across the globe that for them to even entertain the idea of selling it to that pompous, no-talent cunt in order to enrich their shareholders was enough to hasten my exit.
That being said, once that sale was made…while I’d have preferred to see $44 billion go to the working class instead of a bunch of wealthy shareholders, I am much happier seeing it split up instead of remaining in the coffers of a bigoted fuck billionaire whose own kid disowned him. Fuck him.
It was enough of a dumpster fire before it got all musky. After it got the preputial gland the edgelords became MOR and there was no arguing past their mechanical circle jerk of atavism.
O’Reilly said if he did not get his account back it would be “personally, quite annoying but professionally quite depressing” as Twitter was his route into his current profession as a journalist and author. He used it as a “shop front” in ways, he said.
“I was very, very reluctant to be a Twitter doomer because it had done so much for me… But it’s really at the point where it doesn’t really work in practical terms. It is not as useful as an object as it used to be. It incentivises lots of extremely negative and hateful speech and has really made that a big kind of calling card of its business for the last year or two… that you can go on there and say anything.”
Fediverse is waiting.
Glad I stopped using Twitter eons ago.
Social networks that do this should lose any safe harbor provisions. Government are so fucking far behind with basic common sense.
Absolutely. You cannot claim safe harbor while banning stuff like this.
i hate banning anyone as much as the next anarcho-dingus but afaik there’s no law against banning whoever you want and i’m not sure there should be one. i don’t know what the answer is, if it isn’t public control of all social media.
maybe some public funded internet services such as defederated twitter and reddit alternatives? completely open and paid for with taxes, in direct competition with their for-profit contemporaries.
Like the BBC mastadon instance social.bbc
Well that’s actually exactly what I’d expect
Séamas gave us of the funniest story threads I’ve ever read on that cursed site: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/992006545473966082.html
Yup - this is one that stayed with me. This has earned a place in internet history.
This should be a post. Much better!
Lmao that was gold.
Holy shit, thanks for that
First off, just call it Twitter.
Second, get off Twitter!
It’s time for news orgs and journalists to say a) “we’re hosting our content on our own Mastodon server and that will be the source of truth for federated platforms (eventually including Threads and Bluesky)”, b) “we will mirror the content across non-federated social media platforms that support free and fair reporting”.
In other words give Twitter the middle finger and make the content available everywhere.
The suspension cited platform manipulation and spam as its reasoning, which he wrote in his appeal that he had nothing to do with.
So the only conclusion we can draw here is that writing an article critical of Twitter because it’s overrun with (paid) spambots now constitutes “platform manipulation.”
Elon in 2022: I wanna get rid of all the spambots!
Elon in 2024: You’re banned for being mean to the spambots!
Musk is only a free speech absolutist for the speech he supports.
But he ABSOLUTELY supports the speech he supports!
I just wish that a free-speech-absolutist-billionaire would buy the platform so things like this wouldn’t happen anymore. He could even rename it something cool (like ‘Y’ or ‘Z’) to get some street-cred with edgy middleschoolers…
What pains me the most is that idiots still simp for Elon after all of this.
They simp because of this. He is “owning the libs” by being a fragile thin-skinned clown while unbanning actual Nazis.
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sometimes the work is more important than the tools
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Man a news source needs eyeballs, wherever those are they’ll distribute.
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when you have an important job, sometimes yeah.
STOP USING TWITTER, DUMBASS.
“Liberal finds it surreal that neoliberalism creates fascism”
Such a weird thing! :D
“Free speech absolutist”, my ass…
