Yeah like imagine if Twitter had been banned in the US and how their election might have turned out. Things might have turned out worse like getting a dictator who is wanting to reignite land grabs of neighboring countries.
Not banning Twitter and attempts to educate from the liberals really worked out.
Education hasn’t worked seeing how fascism has successfully taken hold through american social media, and no transparency over algorithms. And the people in charge pushing for fascism owning the sites and tuning the algorithm to their liking to promote and suppress information they want the masses to hook on to.
And it’s not like only dumb uneducated people who have been lured into it. Those with educated backgrounds are just as easily influenced. That there are antivax nurses tells you everything there is to know about how effective education is.
Can you imagine people on /r/fednews, expressing what is going on if their true identities were known under the government that is in place right now? Trusted authorities can become the enemy in an instant as the US has shown to the world. All of a sudden what was considered safe expressions become thought crimes.
Hell imagine if that was how Twitter operated before the Musk purchase, and then all of a sudden him having access to that information as the trusted authority. Your concept of trusted authority relies on the trusted authority actually remaining something you believe can’t be bought out or compromised.
Not to mention how often data breeches happen so trusted authority becomes everyone’s information.
Is he another Russian asset getting ready to sell out his country?
I think point is to put on record for the history books who the turncoats are that supported this fascist takeover.
What…I thought we were team Hannibal.
We are reddit though just on a different site… lot of people mainly moved because of the api change.
Even someone believing they are “not like other redditors” is one of the most reddit stereotypes. Haha.
Those just come off as regular left to me.
When I think of radical left I think tanky types who are full on nationalists and pro authoritarian governments that suppress free think that they are indistinguishable from the far right other than just differences when it comes to stuff like government assisted programs.
If you have to use Twitter I recommend using squawker if you have android. Unfollow everyone from Twitter just use squawker to subscribe to accounts which provides a subscription feed that is local without adding the account followers.
Not a good idea to use the official Twitter app anyways with all the data collecting it can do and adding to follower counts adds added pressure to keep a presence there. Just turn into a ghost when it comes to Twitter usage.
That nice in theory but hasn’t worked in practice.
America is the best example that you just can’t teach some people. Doesn’t matter if it is scientists and doctors doing the teaching. If anything in the eyes of idiots that makes them even less credible. Don’t underestimate stupidity.
They should do the same for twitter and meta too.
He’s successfully destroyed it in his country.
Tom from MySpace taking the money and enjoying life away from the limelight instead of seeking more wealth and power seems more along the lines of what most people fantasize about when it comes to what they’d do if they were rich. All the other rich fucks actively go out of their way to make as many people as miserable as possible.
Plus side here is that people can move to another instance and start commenting right away as opposed to being shadow banned for a period in certain subs and having to build up enough karma to not automatically have every comment flagged.
People aren’t stuck to the policies of instances they don’t agree with whether it be reasons for bans or what instances are blocked or whitelisted.
Would it surprise anyone if it was a Russian run subreddit. Heard moderation is heavy handed to quickly snuff out dissent with people having their conservative flairs taken away if they dare question dear leader who drinks the sun and eats the sky.
Be sure to burn it so there is nothing to tape back up again.
Yeah China feeling more emboldened to invade Taiwan and talking about wanting to send in troops to gain experience in Ukraine shows they are looking to fill in the power vacuum left by the US and become US 2.0.
Katniss save us!
You’d fit right in working for Facebook.