RIP Twitter

[RockyTop85]

How do you know that it's not?

Because we keep having discussions about how the government should regulate it to make it better.

 

[McDad]

I don’t understand why this isn’t the first solution for everyone.

Because the admonition of just ignore, turn it off, or do not buy has been the go to reply when the other side has "concerns about content". Seems right to serve the gander the goose's goodies.

 

[RockyTop85]

Because the admonition of just ignore, turn it off, or do not buy has been the go to reply when the other side has "concerns about content". Seems right to serve the gander the goose's goodies.

But it’s a good admonition.

If a service sucks, don’t use it.

 

[Rickyvol77]

A social media platform which is actually moderated will come along... there is always something better on the horizon. Just like MySpace gave way to Facebook.

Who said it wouldn’t be moderated?

 

[hog88]

I already have, and by all appearances, I'm not alone.

How to delete a Twitter account

^^^^ This is a trending search on Google. ^^^^

Are you canceling all services coming from satellites launched by SpaceX?

 

[hog88]

A social media platform which is actually moderated will come along... there is always something better on the horizon. Just like MySpace gave way to Facebook.

By moderated do you mean excluding anything you disagree with?

 

[Ttucke11]

By moderated do you mean excluding anything you disagree with?

He has no idea other than Elon bad.

 

[luthervol]

I don't think he's wrong. As a matter of fact I agree with him. I am just skeptical because of the timing. Speak out when it doesn't appear to benefit you if you want to be more believable. While Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube has been censoring truth, they called it disinformation at the time to benefit the democrat party Obama didn't say a word. Truth proves once again, it's difficult to hide from.

“If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not, if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems,”
“If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect. We won’t know what to fight for. And we can lose so much of what we’ve gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we’ve come to take for granted,”
Obama said that we live in an age with “so much active misinformation” that is “packaged very well” and looks the same whether it’s on social media or on TV.

These are all from more than 5 years ago.

 

[n_huffhines]

Sounds super very stable geniusy.

With a tiny sliver of information, you think you have enough to call it crazy. I'm gonna blow your mind right now....maybe....just maybe, Musk makes more than 5% on his own $.

 

[BowlBrother85]

You deleted Twitter just because musk bought it? Lmao

You can always create another account ... and if I'm wrong about it no longer being moderated? I will.

 

[hog88]

You can always create another account ... and if I'm wrong about it no longer being moderated? I will.

Way to stand by your principles.

 

[Orangeburst]

“If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not, if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems,”
“If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect. We won’t know what to fight for. And we can lose so much of what we’ve gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we’ve come to take for granted,”
Obama said that we live in an age with “so much active misinformation” that is “packaged very well” and looks the same whether it’s on social media or on TV.

These are all from more than 5 years ago.

Your party does not hold the keys to truth
D*** dangerous and authoritarian and defies the foundation of persuasion

 

[Rickyvol77]

You can always create another account ... and if I'm wrong about it no longer being moderated? I will.

But again why specifically would you leave Twitter now when really nothing has changed except the owner

 

[C-south]

Can't you just put me on ignore?

You know Freak is a Republican don’t you?

 

[volinbham]

I agree with everything Obama said in the linked article.
Is there a part with which you disagree.

I fundamentally disagree with his premise that platforms which allow billions of people to express themselves are a threat to democracy:

"In a speech about disinformation at Stanford University on Thursday, the former president said the modern internet landscape was "one of the biggest reasons for democracy's weakening" and was "turbocharging some of humanity's worst impulses."
"Not all these effects are intentional or even avoidable, they're simply the consequence of billions of humans suddenly plugged into an instant 24/7 global information stream," Obama said."

It's almost moronic to argue that allowing people to express themselves freely is a threat to democracy and what helps democracy is the government controlling individual expression.

 

[Rickyvol77]

“If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not, if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems,”
“If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect. We won’t know what to fight for. And we can lose so much of what we’ve gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we’ve come to take for granted,”
Obama said that we live in an age with “so much active misinformation” that is “packaged very well” and looks the same whether it’s on social media or on TV.

These are all from more than 5 years ago.

It’s not the government’s job to determine what’s “misinformation” to silence the other side. If someone like Rasputin or Donjo or Volger want to spit out Russian propaganda or mcveigh conspiracy Theories or flat earth BS they should be able to say whatever they want to about it. Its up to the rest of us normal people to make fun and correct them. Not to ban them

 

[volinbham]

There have always been regulations about what is on radio and television.

There have always been regulations on what is on social media platforms

 

[StoVol]

 

[StoVol]

Lmao

 

[Jxn Vol]

Can't you just put me on ignore?

Perhaps.

 

[volinbham]

A social media platform which is actually moderated will come along... there is always something better on the horizon. Just like MySpace gave way to Facebook.

Wait, you believe that Twitter will become completely unmoderated? Sounds like you fell for some misinformation.

 

[BowlBrother85]

But again why specifically would you leave Twitter now when really nothing has changed except the owner

The only way to send a message of concern with this change is if there is a mass exodus from the platform the day after such a change has taken place. There will be an alarming number of deleted twitter accounts this week. This will send a message to Musk, that nobody wants that platform to become reddit. When (and if) it becomes clear that isn't happening .... then most, if not all, of the people who deleted their accounts (like myself) will rejoin.

 

[Rickyvol77]

The only way to send a message of concern with this change is if there is a mass exodus from the platform the day after such a change has taken place. There will be an alarming number of deleted twitter accounts this week. This will send a message to Musk, that nobody wants that platform to become reddit. When (and if) it becomes clear that isn't happening .... then most, if not all, of the people who deleted their accounts (like myself) will rejoin.

Why do you care if it’s Reddit even though there a huge huge assumption not backed up by any facts

 

[volinbham]

“If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not, if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems,”
“If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect. We won’t know what to fight for. And we can lose so much of what we’ve gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we’ve come to take for granted,”
Obama said that we live in an age with “so much active misinformation” that is “packaged very well” and looks the same whether it’s on social media or on TV.

These are all from more than 5 years ago.

People can and do distinguish between what's true and not. It's insidious to argue that the government must be the arbiter to protect people from "untruths".

Distinctions are made every minute of every day. This is typical Obama making massive strawman arguments that rely on a view that citizens must be protected in all aspects of life from each other; for their own good.

I can see why you lap this up. It perfectly fits your view. It is anti-democratic as hell but it fits the view.

 

[BowlBrother85]

Wait, you believe that Twitter will become completely unmoderated? Sounds like you fell for some misinformation.

We'll see... I really do hope you're right.