They probably shouldn't be allowed to vote.
MUSK BUYS TWITTER!
- Thread starter Jefferson
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Ye got yeeted 'cuz of the Tweets he tweeted!
It's a vast improvement over how censorious Twitter used to be.
Arthur Brain
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Isn't that a form of censorship?
Arthur Brain
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Like who?
Aside from Trump, he doesn't dare name names.
You would disagree with anyone I named, so what would be the point?
The point is that it would be hilarious.
annabenedetti
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Jefferson (or someone he approves of) wants to be the one deciding who gets banned, who gets to vote. He was all about not banning anyone based on their political views and then Elon ups and bans Kanye and Jefferson goes into Divert! Divert! Divert! mode. He's almost as bad as marke.
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annabenedetti
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When you've lost even Sebastian Gorka:
annabenedetti
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Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find
Problematic content and formerly barred accounts have increased sharply in the short time since Elon Musk took over
Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day.
Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.
And antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism soared more than 61 percent in the two weeks after Mr. Musk acquired the site.
The shift in speech is just the tip of a set of changes on the service under Mr. Musk. Accounts that Twitter used to regularly remove — such as those that identify as part of the Islamic State, which were banned after the U.S. government classified ISIS as a terror group — have come roaring back. Accounts associated with QAnon, a vast far-right conspiracy theory, have paid for and received verified status on Twitter, giving them a sheen of legitimacy.
These changes are alarming, researchers said, adding that they had never seen such a sharp increase in hate speech, problematic content and formerly banned accounts in such a short period on a mainstream social media platform.
“Elon Musk sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “They have reacted accordingly . . . .”
Mr. Musk has denied claims that hate speech has increased on Twitter under his watch. Last month, he tweeted a downward-trending graph that he said showed that “hate speech impressions” had dropped by a third since he took over. He did not provide underlying numbers or details of how he was measuring hate speech.
On Thursday, Mr. Musk said the account of Kanye West, which was restricted for a spell in October because of an antisemitic tweet, would be suspended indefinitely after the rapper, known as Ye, tweeted an image of a swastika inside the Star of David. On Friday, Mr. Musk said Twitter would publish “hate speech impressions” every week and agreed with a tweet that said hate speech spiked last week because of Ye’s antisemitic posts.
Problematic content and formerly barred accounts have increased sharply in the short time since Elon Musk took over
Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day.
Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.
And antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism soared more than 61 percent in the two weeks after Mr. Musk acquired the site.
The shift in speech is just the tip of a set of changes on the service under Mr. Musk. Accounts that Twitter used to regularly remove — such as those that identify as part of the Islamic State, which were banned after the U.S. government classified ISIS as a terror group — have come roaring back. Accounts associated with QAnon, a vast far-right conspiracy theory, have paid for and received verified status on Twitter, giving them a sheen of legitimacy.
These changes are alarming, researchers said, adding that they had never seen such a sharp increase in hate speech, problematic content and formerly banned accounts in such a short period on a mainstream social media platform.
“Elon Musk sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “They have reacted accordingly . . . .”
Mr. Musk has denied claims that hate speech has increased on Twitter under his watch. Last month, he tweeted a downward-trending graph that he said showed that “hate speech impressions” had dropped by a third since he took over. He did not provide underlying numbers or details of how he was measuring hate speech.
On Thursday, Mr. Musk said the account of Kanye West, which was restricted for a spell in October because of an antisemitic tweet, would be suspended indefinitely after the rapper, known as Ye, tweeted an image of a swastika inside the Star of David. On Friday, Mr. Musk said Twitter would publish “hate speech impressions” every week and agreed with a tweet that said hate speech spiked last week because of Ye’s antisemitic posts.
The biblical principle of an eye for an eye applies here. If you despise the 1st amendment to the point of denying someone else their 1st amendment right, you should lose yours. An eye for an eye.
ok doser
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Sorry snowflake, Free Speech has to include "hate" speech
Go cry about it somewhere else
ok doser
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I think the banning of Kanye was a mistake. He should be as free as anybody to say stupid things and make a fool of himself
annabenedetti
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No, it actually doesn't, Jefferson.
You're shoehorning OT religious law into the secular Bill of Rights to justify your contradictions.
You were against banning anyone regardless of their political view until your hero did exactly that.
You're all for constitutional rights until you don't like what someone *thinks.* You add to add "to the point of denying..." in order to justify it.
You're literally looking for thoughtcrime to punish. That's not very patriotic American freedom loving of you.
