• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    Wait, I’m shocked Xitter had numbers as high as 14% when it comes to dealing with hate speech…

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      Once reported an obvious anti-Semitic post that I found (was curious if they actually would). Took them a week or two but they actually took it down. I was shocked.

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        One engagement dies down around a post they can take it down and just pretend they’re oh so backlogged to save face.

        Everyone saw it already, the damage was done.

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          Of course, they might actually be backlogged because Musk fired almost everyone who dealt with that stuff. When you hamstring a department, they can quickly fall behind on their work.

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    Twitter, as far as I have recalled, has almost always been a cesspool for hot takes and hate. Just with Elon in charge the flood gates have really opened and has acquired a particular flavor mimicking his own tastes.

    The real question now is if this will ultimately lead to the ban or slow death of Twitter. People really can only put up with so much vitriol.

    Many countries are lining up with laws and bill coming after social media, usually under the goal or “goal” of protecting kids, so we will see how things turn out. Might even be a quicker death/change then.

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      Actually they’ll use anything they can to get that same fix twitter delivered before. The quality doesn’t matter if it’s their only outlet. Until a new app arrives to replace it, nothing will kill it. It’s like Davy Jones’ heart.

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          Yeah, Jack Dorsey should not get a second chance. Twitter was already shit before Elon made it worse.

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          Anything that used federated set ups like mastodon is automatically going to be too complex for most laymen users. I’m not sure is Bluesky is going to be any cop, seems to have been stuck in invite only mode for a while.

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    Hey, they did managed to react on my hate speech posts… against v.putin. Rather quickly too. So yeah, if you are a dictator, its all Gucci.

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    “We don’t want to be the ones policing forums.”

    At the same time

    Elon aids the enemy in the Ukraine and Russia conflict.

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        Check their post history. Next most recent comment is calling Lyft sexist for letting women select the gender of their driver, and the one after that is saying that there should be no limits on landlord’s ability to evict.

        This is not someone operating in good faith.

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      Except when elon doesn’t like what you write. Then the free speech isn’t that free any more

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      Depends on your understanding of free and uncensored speech. I think that’s different between the US and most of the world as a lot of countries never had the same total free speech policy and have always criminalised hate speech.

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    This is true both before and after it was owned by musk, it just went from left wing hate speech to right wing hate speech

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        “Fascists should k*ll themselves” got me banned from xitter so that’s the kinda ‘hate speech’ they care about

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        Those billionaires have too much money and people should be able to afford a one bedroom apartment on a full time minimum wage job!

        /Hatespeech

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        Calling for the genocide of whites, men, straight people, certain political ideologies, praising the appropriation of Western European culture to “subvert” it and rewrite it, banning books, etc…

        Edit: oh shit, thought Reddit was the delusional echo chamber, maybe it’s Lemmy, too.

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      There were a lot of shitty takes from the left on pre-Musk twitter, but shit takes are not the same as blaming a whole race of people for all the world’s financial ills or denying historical fact of genocidal events.