BlueMoonPodcast
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You can't use the platform and expect it to be a level playing field because it isn't. Since Musk's takeover, he's given undue prominence to people who pay him to use it, promoting their replies and their posts over non-paying users. As I said in the previous post in this thread, he suppresses external links, so content creators find it much harder to get their work seen by both their audience and a potential new audience. He has also made it so much easier for false information - both malicious and mistaken - to be spread, and indeed spreads it himself in support of his own political ideology.
Previously, you'd have been right - block or ignore what you don't like, engage with what you do. But now that isn't enough to avoid what you want to avoid. It's you bringing a knife to a gunfight and Musk bringing a battalion.
Since he's so big on people exorcising their right to free speech, he'll understand people choosing to no longer use his platform in exchange for another that behaves how they want it to.
As for it all being about 'wokeness', I struggle to understand what people mean when they criticise 'woke ideology'. As far as I can tell, being woke means not being racist, sexist, homophobic, whatever, and actually engaging with people in good faith and in a pleasant manner.
