DiscussionElon Musk’s Twitter takeover. What’s your thoughts on his view on ‘free speech’ and will this allow open homophobia from the TQ crowd?

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[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Tbh, I think they already practice a fair amount of open homophobia without many repercussions. The real solution to their hate to allow people to actually counter it without getting suspended, banned, or algorithmically demoted. I hope for the return of censored users like Fred Sargeant and Graham Linehan. They wouldn't need the site stepping in to protect their fee fees. They are capable handling attacks themselves if you let them.

Edit: Reaction from LGBTQ+

[–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Hell, if they leave, I'll join it. Lesbian women get banned from Reddit whenever we talk about being gay. Maybe Twitter will be more hospitable.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hopefully. It's very chaotic now so it's difficult to predict what kind of company culture and culture in general it will eventually settle into.

I have to check my enthusiasm, because I've been disappointed before. But I have my fingers crossed that maybe this time there'll be a popular mainstream platform whose average userbase and management is not ideologically extremist- where I won't get roundly suspended without recourse for innocuously expressing observations of reality that the unstable narcissists of society can deem to be violence or hate speech.