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I thought the whole point of being right wing was being negative?
When your whole identity is consumed by boundless, baseless, joyless hatred of "the other", yes, you're gonna be negative.
I don't believe Musk is controlled by any of that though. He might share in it, but it doesn't quite dictate him as much as it dictates those in actual misery. For example, he isn't actually opposed to letting immigrants in, if they'll make him richer. He's motivated by greed and grift, and no small helping of pride.
I suspect he just doesn't want people criticising him and his cronies. Particularly when they inevitably start enacting policies that affect their base negatively (we've already seen our share of face-eating leopard voters shocked to find out that their face isn't off limits), social media could help pissed off people realise how many others are pissed off too. I don't think I need to spell out why that could be dangerous for him.
Better to quell dissent entirely. If nobody can complain about the government, it's harder to organise against it. Suppress criticism, censor the media, manipulate what you get to see to shape your view...
(Obligatory note that calling a dictatorship communism doesn't make it less authoritarian than a capitalist dictatorship. Red boots hurt just as much as any other color if they step on your neck, no matter how tasty they might be. That has nothing to do with the topic, I'm just bracing for tankie whataboutisms.)
I was being slightly sarcastic cause right wing folk seem to be very negative, or nostalgic, but in a negative sense. But I get your point.
Oh you're absolutely right, I just felt like spelling out the subtext of "Musk isn't in it for the right wing mentality, just for the power" that I thought you were hinting at but left unsaid. I wasn't trying to contradict you at all, but rather to expand on your setup.
I appreciate the comment cause it’s definitely something I haven’t considered enough.
Incumbent wants everyone to talk about how great things are.
Don't want any Debbie-downers on Shitter once his bestie is in the big chair.
I'm curious whether Truth Social will acquire Xitter, or vice versa.
And when.
I mean in principle this is just a matter of moderation being different from censorship.
But really, an "algorithm tweak"? I am still wondering when or why who decided that we needed to have "algorithms" that someone could "tweak" on the Internet at all. The first kind of "social media" I ever used was web forums where the entire "algorithm" was thread bumping, and even if you insist that we need to have the structure of a microblog: Mastodon does fine without an "algorithm" beyond reverse-chronological sorting.
I think Mastodon does fine, too, but I've often heard people complain about the lack of an algorithm. Like, they don't know how to find things if they aren't being shoveled into their feed
Personally I follow slightly more than 100 accounts plus less than 10 hashtags and feel I'm already getting plenty of things into my feed, nowadays I tend to unfollow things that post too many irrelevant things more than I follow new ones.
But you had all these rightwing weirdos complaining they were being censored because "the algorithm" didn't promote their weird little ideas enough!
Back when.
So tweaking the algorithm is quite literally censorship!
Not that this "free-speech absolutist" has proven particularly true to his word.
I strongly agree with the point made in the linked article that censorship is when a sender wants to send something, the receiver wants to receive it, but a third party (government, social media platform, whoever) keeps them from doing so.
If I want to see "weird little ideas of rightwing weirdos" (or of leftwing weirdos or any others), I should be allowed to. If I don't, I shouldn't have to.
Reading the title I thought he'll retire.
Dont shit where you eat Elon. Its your own turd sandwich so yeah....
Ah, so he's going to stop posting there? Right?
Now that the election is over and we won, let's remove our bots. - musk
The bots are removed! All 9 users (8 of them are EM sockpuppets) celebrate!
Oh, c'mon, who's going to tell him he is the best dad? He needs them.
I mean, he will on an alt.
Ah, but there are still elections in other parts of the world, like Germany, where he is also very active
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No no, guys, you're misunderstanding. He MEANS there's too much negativity from people saying things like "X sucks since musk bought twitter....."
He's going to change those people's tweets to say "X is great!"
And by that I mean he's going to have a team to edit tweets that he doesn't like!
If that's not free speech, then Musk doesn't know what is!
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He’s shutting down his account?
Lol. Free Speech guy!
A cisgender guy.
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free speech absolutist
Free speech abolitionist, more like.
my puppet is in power — everyone be nice now.
Instead of “bad” you have to say “ungood” from now on.
Double plus ungood!
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X/Twitter is a misinformation platform. If you know a major influencer that uses, consider informing and directing them to the ActivityPub alternatives, even advertising on their platforms if you can.
I like how you say "that uses" instead of "that uses it" because the former generally implies drug use.
Good point, best to leave it like that 🙃
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Closing the shop will achieve that goal perfectly.
negativity about him.
Yeah the best thing Trump can do for himself is Epstein another friend
He's such a fucking baby
Now that the election is over, he’s hiding the lightning rod.
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