Elon Musk buys and ruins Twitter

[mexico1970]

Removing algorithms and improving the ability to speak freely without fear of shadow bans won’t cause a mass exodus, rather the opposite.

A mass exodus has already happened. Anyone with conservative views or not falling in line with twitter staffs version of trans rights or black lives matter have mostly left to other platforms. We’re not just talking about the cunts either, literally anyone who doesn’t agree with say trans competing in sports will see bans or reach of posts removed. That’s censorship.

So twitter right now is full of one side of most arguments and anyone who disagrees has ran to gab, truth or some other version.

Having like minded people in separate camps unable to openly discuss and debate is not the way for anyone to find common ground and it’s why it’s important that if musk takes it over he allows all sides to be evenly represented in all respectful discussions.

Twitter is just one great big echo chamber unless it's used properly for your business or interests. If you are the type of person who only wants to hear other people nodding at what you say then you are wearing the Emperors new clothes in real time.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Removing algorithms and improving the ability to speak freely without fear of shadow bans won’t cause a mass exodus, rather the opposite.

A mass exodus has already happened. Anyone with conservative views or not falling in line with twitter staffs version of trans rights or black lives matter have mostly left to other platforms. We’re not just talking about the cunts either, literally anyone who doesn’t agree with say trans competing in sports will see bans or reach of posts removed. That’s censorship.

So twitter right now is full of one side of most arguments and anyone who disagrees has ran to gab, truth or some other version.

Having like minded people in separate camps unable to openly discuss and debate is not the way for anyone to find common ground and it’s why it’s important that if musk takes it over he allows all sides to be evenly represented in all respectful discussions.

Citations needed.

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

Twitter is just one great big echo chamber unless it's used properly for your business or interests. If you are the type of person who only wants to hear other people nodding at what you say then you are wearing the Emperors new clothes in real time.

Yep, but it wasn’t always that way and if it was it was down to curating a list of people you followed that was not diverse, so you’d have only yourself to blame. Unfortunately now algorithms have only served to make this happened constantly and prevent people from seeing diverse views. Musk claims this is why he wants to buy it. Let’s see how he follows through if the sale happens.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Removing algorithms and improving the ability to speak freely without fear of shadow bans won’t cause a mass exodus, rather the opposite.

A mass exodus has already happened. Anyone with conservative views or not falling in line with twitter staffs version of trans rights or black lives matter have mostly left to other platforms. We’re not just talking about the cunts either, literally anyone who doesn’t agree with say trans competing in sports will see bans or reach of posts removed. That’s censorship.

I mean that's simply not true. I only really use Twitter for work purposes, so I don't really follow any of the debates on there. Nevertheless, trans-critical and trans-supporting content occasionally gets retweeted by people I follow without consequence.

What you often find is that people who claim they've been banned for trans-critical content were actually banned for abusive content or harassment. And there are plenty of trans activists who have been banned for their behaviour. But naturally Twitter tends to clamp down harder on outright transphobia, rather than genuine debate, for the same reason they ban racist content. And they have quite a high bar for what's considered racist, homophobic or transphobic content. Plenty of things that people consider racist, homophobic or transphobic is still allowed. Look at every time City change their badge to rainbows for Pride month.

What Twitter likely do is operate a set of rules that ensures they get maximum engagement and basically maximum influence amongst serious people (they made a conscious decision early to become a news-sharing platform, by switching "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?"). They could of course be completely free speech purely relying on US law (which could be in breach of other countries' laws) but then you have a situation where no-one serious is going to use the platform. Allowing vast quantities of unfettered hate speech simply ensures that all other groups will stay away and it'll become an echo chamber for people who basically have no influence, like something like 4Chan.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Removing algorithms and improving the ability to speak freely without fear of shadow bans won’t cause a mass exodus, rather the opposite.

A mass exodus has already happened. Anyone with conservative views or not falling in line with twitter staffs version of trans rights or black lives matter have mostly left to other platforms. We’re not just talking about the cunts either, literally anyone who doesn’t agree with say trans competing in sports will see bans or reach of posts removed. That’s censorship.

So twitter right now is full of one side of most arguments and anyone who disagrees has ran to gab, truth or some other version.

Having like minded people in separate camps unable to openly discuss and debate is not the way for anyone to find common ground and it’s why it’s important that if musk takes it over he allows all sides to be evenly represented in all respectful discussions.

A post starting with an assumption, no data to support it, leading to the ever-popular hyperbolic use of “anyone”, which therefore reaches a potentially erroneous conclusion and thus a likely erroneous prediction.

Would be my view.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Yep, but it wasn’t always that way and if it was it was down to curating a list of people you followed that was not diverse, so you’d have only yourself to blame. Unfortunately now algorithms have only served to make this happened constantly and prevent people from seeing diverse views. Musk claims this is why he wants to buy it. Let’s see how he follows through if the sale happens.

Hey, did you ever stop to think that not very many people WANT diverse views and that maybe profit-seeking media makes more money by providing what more people want? And maybe more people don’t want trans-bashing cunts in their feed than do?

And those who really do want to learn about “all sides” of an issue go and do shit like research both sides, pursue data, etc. and don’t spend their time reading tweets but rather pore through primary documents penned by experts from sources willing to allow authors more than x number of characters?

Worth considering.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Twitter is just one great big echo chamber unless it's used properly for your business or interests. If you are the type of person who only wants to hear other people nodding at what you say then you are wearing the Emperors new clothes in real time.

Well, I’m sure we can find an echo chamber of people who enjoy bitching about what an echo chamber Twitter has become somewhere. In fact, I know it.

 

[SWP's back]

 

[Username Required]

Hey, did you ever stop to think that not very many people WANT diverse views and that maybe profit-seeking media makes more money by providing what more people want? And maybe more people don’t want trans-bashing cunts in their feed than do?

And those who really do want to learn about “all sides” of an issue go and do shit like research both sides, pursue data, etc. and don’t spend their time reading tweets but rather pore through primary documents penned by experts from sources willing to allow authors more than x number of characters?

Worth considering.

You are such such a fucking hypocrite, you bore.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

You are such such a fucking hypocrite, you bore.

Thanks. Who are you again?