Twitter is complete shit now

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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

Phooey fact check rating: Partially True - Twitter was always complete shit

[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Twitter was censoring before Musk.

Twitter is censoring now.

The bias of the censors was clearer under the pre-Musk rules. Now it's muddier.

Censorship is censorship. A censored medium is always dangerous to truth. That is consistent at Twitter since 2016 at the latest, possibly before. I've never paid much attention to Twitter, but the only element that makes it remotely notable as a company is precisely as a barometer for censorship. Know what they're censoring, and you have a better idea of what they're actually doing that is important enough to them that they are willing to put the resources into quashing it. These are precisely the parts of the program which must be most consistently opposed.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Totally in agreement on the censorship, but I think there are deeper problems with Twitter. It was clearly never meant to be a platform for disseminating anything other than memes and catchphrases. Twitter has doubled the allowed size of a post, but it is still fewer characters than I am allowed in the TITLE of a Saidit post. This seems designed to dumb people down and keep the conversations to the most superficial levels possible. Go Red team! Go Blue Team! Trans Rights! Ukrainian Flag! Insert Identity Politics Slogan Here! That this level of dialogue passes for the 'public square' these days is troubling enough on its own

[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Great point. Twitter is the perfect vehicle to ensure that debate is framed in terms of slogans and nothing but slogans. In a war of slogans, the controllers always win. It's only once one goes beyond the slogans that they can be exposed. You're absolutely right.