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[–]szalinskikidproblematic androphile 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Mainly short-term euphoria because of the collective meltdown of the authoritarian left, and their unabashed display of hypocrisy regarding social media platforms and free speech. But let's not kid ourselves. "We" (LGBdroptheT, Gender Criticals, Radfems and everything inbetween) and the "new heralds of free speech" (Musk, Chappelle.. or even Trump for some) aren't "on the same side". Remember, for the rest of the world, we're ALL just The Community™. And our perceived infighting is met with indifference at best, but mostly incomprehension and amusement. We're all those crazy Feminists™, the Gays™. JKR is disliked on both sides of the aisle. They don't understand the diametrically opposed positions of "Terfs" and "TRAs". Chappelle defended Rowling by ultimately misinterpreting her entire stance. "Gender is real" goes against everything we say, yet the majority claps.

The best we can hope for is for Twitter to stop the estimated 50% bots on the platform, and the problem of the countless sock puppet accounts of the no-life TRAs. Also, I hope for a fair treatment of all opinions when it comes to the algorithm. Why is it that a TRA response with 2 likes under a JK Rowling/LGB Alliance/GC tweet is listed higher than a supporting tweet with 2000 likes? I'd like to know the logic.

Maybe we can hope for LGB Alliance to get their checkmark. There will not be much change for us otherwise. We'll still be the target of misinformation and bullying.

And I DREAD the upcoming "Musk derangement syndrome". You just know it's gonna happen. Nobody will leave Twitter, no. They'll all stay and tweet for years to come about this billionaire who is destroying their lives. Social media is a blight on society, sure; but it was THEIR blight to use for their advantage. Now that this is (seemingly) changing, we're going to witness in real time how private social media platforms are going to get blamed for everything bad in the world. We'll see politics getting involved. I wouldn't be surprised if the near future, social media will be turned into a public asset because of its "newly discovered" importance and undoubted influence on society. But not without new "hate speech" laws, of course...