Posted on 11/06/2022 7:09:28 AM PST by DoodleBob
I balance it against empirical observations.
“there was an uptick in hate speech on the platform as some users felt emboldened to violate the platform’s content policies under an assumption that major policy changes were on the way.”
Perhaps some people, but I suspect the VAST MAJORITY of that crap was from Leftists trying to ‘weaken Twitter’ under Musk.
Or a Vertical Transportation Operation Technician calling himself an elevator operator.
Twitter has 400 million users, and this guy is crowing about 100,000 user gain at Mastadon “over a few days”?
But there is a sliver of folks even in our camp, who really are despicable people. Every now and then, they wave their freak flag. Then they crawl back in their hole. Sadly, some people act like they don't exist, or lend tacit support by saying "yea, but on that other point, I gotta agree with him."
They're sort of the equivalent of Jew-haters, who retort "I don't hate Jews....I'm anti-Zionist...some of my best friends are Jews..."
You can't be partially pregnant. I'll quote Ayn Rand again:
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.
Racism claims that the content of a man’s mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its content) is inherited; that a man’s convictions, values and character are determined before he is born, by physical forces beyond his control. This is the caveman’s version of the doctrine of innate ideas—or of inherited knowledge—which has been thoroughly refuted by philosophy and science. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals, but not between animals and men.
Like every form of determinism, racism invalidates the specific attribute which distinguishes man from all other living species: his rational faculty. Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.
They will be back to Twitter. They are activists who like to fight with those they don’t agree with. It will be no fun and boring for them if everyone is in mutual agreement in their Mastodon groups. Who do they argue with?
“Just like liberal “herdthink” and “My veganism is the only way” are going the way of the mastodon. I say good riddance to the cruel little dictators that infest what should be a “freedom to share ideas” media site.”
I agree. They have controlled the narrative far too long. Let them go hide in the deep web.
“As an information scientist who studies online communities, this felt like the beginning of something I’ve seen before.”
Horrendous grammar!
The filled-with-herself author, Casey Fiesler, has an academic job at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
“I balance it against empirical observations.”
Okay, how many businesses like Twitter has Mush owned, operated, and lost.
So far, the only empirical observations you have is parceled out to you by hostile MSM types who salivate over the possibility of Musk losing out.
As I was once surprised to see in an economic textbook, you can have events and observations, but you can’t quantify the possibilities of the human spirit.
But thanks.
“The decentralized, open source social network Mastodon”
How do you censor people on this? I can’t imagine these “We must control speech!” people would want to go to a platform that DIDN’T have “content moderation” in place.
“I saw countless announcements on my Twitter feed from people either leaving the platform or making preparations to leave”
Some folks just can’t stand to have freedom of speech.
Agreed, and we’ll stated.
I think some of those Twitter people have found there way here.
I reference the new Ukrainian Trolls as an example.
Keep up the good work Mr. Musk. I think I may join Twitter if Trump rejoins.
I tried to sign up, and it said I was already a user there, it just needed my user name or password to get going again.
I had forgotten both, so I just ended up in an endless loop to try to get my log in info again.
There are always clowns that threaten to leave, (Twitter, some sport league, the country, whatever,) but never do.
it’s just like a divorce, and the RATS are pissed because they don’t get to keep the house...
Incoherent responses are always welcome.
Twitter survived banning Trump and censoring free speech. I think it can survive restoring Trump and restoring free speech.
I think most of the Ukrainian trolls are Feds. They’re clearly paid by someone. And some of them were early Trump supporters before he won the primary who went dark after he won. Makes me wonder.
Twitter is worth joining...it’s actually a lot of fun and a good source of information.
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