The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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Dialup said:
But what I said was true, you've literally got people on the Tweet I mentioned above who are spouting very right wing stuff, pushed to the top of the feed or the algorithm is broken.
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It's not true that "anyone to the left of Hitler is ignored" etc.

As for Twitter feeds, it would be meaningful to count up the proportion of Left vs Right wing posts. I don't see all these pro-Trump posts though, so maybe it's your feed specifically.
 
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Dialup said:
But why are they given priority? I thought you wanted a site which was impartial and objective, now you're saying it's okay to pay your way to the top? Not exactly a town square is it?
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Because of bots, they're a real thing and it'll only get worse with the availability of AI. It's basically going to be a requirement for there to be some form of digital ID.
 
Dialup said:
So instead you've appointed Elon Musk?
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Well here's the thing, the only thing we truly know is that no one can be perfectly unbiased, and we can't be sure that we know what's true and what's false; so the best idea is to allow *most* things and let things be debated openly. You seem upset that people are allowed to say things online that you disagree with, that's you not liking the concept of free speech. Maybe Twitter/X isn't the platform for you, go find a safe space.
 
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Roar87 said:
Well here's the thing, the only thing we truly know is that no one can be perfectly unbiased, and we can't be sure that we know what's true and what's false; so the best idea is to allow *most* things and let things be debated openly. You seem upset that people are allowed to say things online that you disagree with, that's you not liking the concept of free speech. Maybe Twitter/X isn't the platform for you, go find a safe space.
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Can you stop sayng 'disagree with'. Is that the new alternative facts line?

Alternative facts are just lies.

I disagree with untruths being pushed as the truth. Its not about disagreeing with facts like you seem to want to be the norm.

I dont disagree with flat earthers because they are talking rubbbish and lies, not because I have a different view. Nor do I disagree with anti vaxers, climate charge deniers, covid deniers, racists, or mysoginists for the very same reasons.
 
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Roar87 said:
Well here's the thing, the only thing we truly know is that no one can be perfectly unbiased, and we can't be sure that we know what's true and what's false; so the best idea is to allow *most* things and let things be debated openly. You seem upset that people are allowed to say things online that you disagree with, that's you not liking the concept of free speech. Maybe Twitter/X isn't the platform for you, go find a safe space.
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This is your monthly reminder that roar reports many posts to the mods, ones calling him a children's cereal mascot, because he is scared of those words.

The mods must read Roars posts, knowing his private history, and laugh when he posts stuff like this.
 
Roar87 said:
Well here's the thing, the only thing we truly know is that no one can be perfectly unbiased, and we can't be sure that we know what's true and what's false; so the best idea is to allow *most* things and let things be debated openly. You seem upset that people are allowed to say things online that you disagree with, that's you not liking the concept of free speech. Maybe Twitter/X isn't the platform for you, go find a safe space.
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Do you agree or disagree that having a platform owned by a single man who is right-wing is not going to be the best person to enforce free speech?
 
Dialup said:
Do you agree or disagree that having a platform owned by a single man who is right-wing is not going to be the best person to enforce free speech?
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I don't think he is right wing, that's just something you've convinced yourself of. He voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, before that Obama. Do you know that? Or care?
 
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Dialup said:
Isn't he a huge advocate of what Trump has done, including but not limited to trying to get him to come back to Twitter?
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I don't know, you're just fishing by typing things without substantiating it. If you think he's a "huge advocate of what Trump has done" then tell me why, don't ask me to tell you? How the **** do I know? He unbanned Trump from Twitter because he was banned despite not breaking any rules. He was banned because the mostly left wing Twitter staff wanted him banned, they'd probably received text messages from their pals telling them to ban him, that's how Twitter was previously run.
 
Roar87 said:
I don't think he is right wing, that's just something you've convinced yourself of. He voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, before that Obama. Do you know that? Or care?
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Joe Biden? Hillary? Which is he reported as saying he voted for?

I like how you claim he's not right wing because in the past he did something which he didn't do.

But let's look at him now...
 
unwashed potato! said:
Joe Biden? Hillary? Which is he reported as saying he voted for?
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He voted Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary D. Clinton and Joseph R Biden Jr in the last three elections. I don't know how Roar could have been clearer?

To many he's suspect because he's not still ideologically pure enough; voting record be damned he sometimes says things we disagree with! The modern left seems unable to deal with complexity or *clutches pearls* dissent.
 
Dialup said:
Elon is creating a platform where the extreme right and the GOP/Trump fandom have their opinions validated and anyone to the left of Hitler is ignored. So you’d fit right in but it’s not “impartial” or “balanced”
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I am sure I would, but X is not a platform I use or one I have ever used. I don't need or want my opinions validated by strangers.
 
philo-sofa said:
He voted Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary D. Clinton and Joseph R Biden Jr in the last three elections. I don't know how Roar could have been clearer?

To many he's suspect because he's not still ideologically pure enough; voting record be damned he sometimes says things we disagree with! The modern left seems unable to deal with complexity or *clutches pearls* dissent.
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Trump was a Democrat. What exactly is your point?

Elon is mentally ill, do you honestly feel he’s qualified to own and run Twitter?
 
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