Now that the election is over, he’s hiding the lightning rod.
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!
A team? You mean ChatGPT?
…also yes.
This has nothing to do with Twitters image. He could have enforced that decision sooner if it was. This is about Trump. The negativity was helpful during Bidens presidency. Now that Trump is about to take over everything has to look like the world is happy again. It’s political manipulation.
It is all good now. Our elections are suddenly secure and our economy is great!
This is exactly what he means.
Next up the sanctioned daily hate.
Now that the election is over and we won, let’s remove our bots. - musk
Oh, c’mon, who’s going to tell him he is the best dad? He needs them.
I mean, he will on an alt.
No, bots are still needed for hating illegal immigrants.
Immigration hate causing backlash against H1Bs, abort, abort!
The bots are removed! All 9 users (8 of them are EM sockpuppets) celebrate!
Ah, but there are still elections in other parts of the world, like Germany, where he is also very active
He’s such a fucking baby
More circus and bread. Classic move
Big Macs, M4 Macbooks and AI Slop about the danger of woke to human civilization.
free speech absolutist
Free speech abolitionist, more like.
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.
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.
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.
Right, he should remove the last few humans and replace them with bots.
my puppet is in power — everyone be nice now.
Lol. Free Speech guy!
A cisgender guy.
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Wish I could know what this said before it was censored
Check out the mod log.
Just looked: regardless of your personal opinion the comment is a breach of the terms of posting. It essentially said Musk should permanently retire himself from life.
It said basically the equivalent of musk should piss on the 3rd rail. Mods arbitrarily removed my comment, probably because it included the phrase ‘kill himself’, while allowing these various replies that aren’t qualitatively different. Mods do need to feel important.
Esteemed fellows as regarded as they are do have to show a presence I guess. There are no good billionaires afterall
If there’s going to be fantasies about murder, can his whole posse go out?
This is a fantasy about suicide but… yes.
It’d be great if they all got together for Jonestown 2.0.
If someone were to poison the food at mar a lago, that person would have done more for this country than anybody else in the past 50 years.
Gotta catch that starship to Mars!
Now that his pick has won the election there’ll be no need for negativity now!
Yes, that town square needs to be happy. That’s a happy democracy!
Mate, the bunting looks awfully like swastikas…
But happy, less negative swastikas, right?
Sure.
What an unserious human Musk is.
My bet is on a scenario where Elon is going to ban people for using ‘cisgender’ term rather than downranking them.
