volbound1700
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I am not familiar with X's Terms of Service but the larger point is the fact that Jones even has an audience that would want to read his tweets or listen to his podcast. He's an epic scumbag and anybody who supports his insane ramblings is in the same category.
Pretty much all social media is a cancer on society.Twitter is a cancer on society. It gives a voice to those whose voices shouldn't be heard. Jones is a top tier douche nozzle, it's bewildering that any rational person would, after hearing is insane rants, want to continue to listen to opinion. He's an a-hole and anyone who gives credence to him is an a-hole.
Alex Jones is a full of s-it whack job but it's the call of the owner, Elon Musk.....
If you got rid of all the people who spout BS about things they know little about, social media would lose half its users immediately
Right, you have to have a forgiving policy for banning people. The general rule for a social media platform should be freedom for the exchange of ideas, but there are reasons you have exceptions to the rule. Most people who spout BS don't inspire grand-scale harassment against victims of the most heinous tragedy you can imagine. This was a good battle to pick, and there is a reason Elon was resistant to re-admitting him. But Musk now knows for sure he's not winning the left back, so the best $-making idea is to appeal to right-wing nutjobs.
It's funny that Musk is talking out of two sides of his mouth on this...we aspire to be the free speech platform but only if a majority vote in favor of it. That's not free speech. That's speech governed by the mob.
It's Elon's company and he can do as he sees fit. Ultimately he is the one who paid $43 billion for this....
Social media has enabled people to say what they truly want to say without fear of getting punched in the nose.
I think it has fueled division in this country.
Twitter is a cancer on society. It gives a voice to those whose voices shouldn't be heard. Jones is a top tier douche nozzle, it's bewildering that any rational person would, after hearing is insane rants, want to continue to listen to opinion. He's an a-hole and anyone who gives credence to him is an a-hole.
Since Leroy lost his fingers in the firework incident we use gutter bumpers and ball ramps.Yeah, they all immediately throw gutter balls to the right....
Your bowling team...
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Did you have the same opinion when Twitter banned Trump but did not ban ISIS?
What did ISIS do on Twitter that should have had them banned? I don't remember that controversy.
I left Twitter over that stuff. Not Trump specifically, but because they purged Trumpy followers in the wake of that. 60k of them as I recall. One of them was my best friend. That's how I found out about it. I'm OK with them banning Trump. I don't recall feeling too strongly about it, but feeling like they could justify it. He bullied and harassed all the time on the platform. A little surprised he lasted as long as he did, but I'm sure they loved the $ his account generated.
Edit: BTW, my buddy who was purged?...still banned from Twitter. Even though he didn't do anything wrong, per se. He got caught up in a mass algorithm exodus. As I understand it, they just looked at all his followers and follows and determined "far right-wing troll = delete". Alex Jones is back, tho. Yay free speech.
ISIS linked accounts used Twitter as a tool to recruit and spread jihadist message. The intent of recruiting was to find people to carry out attacks. Seems to be ban worthy to me...
The Ayatollah wasn't banned.
I was OK with Jack Dorsey banning Trump. He was in charge. But the optics of banning Trump and not those that I mentioned looks bad. And it was why Twitter was losing market cap until Elon was so impulsive that he overpaid for it....