Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:04 pm
Can't put a good spin on this.
Elon Musk’s X is a thriving hub for Nazi support and propaganda, with paid subscribers sharing speeches by Adolf Hitler or content praising his genocidal regime.
NBC News found that at least 150 paid “Premium” subscriber X accounts and thousands of unpaid accounts have posted or amplified pro-Nazi content on X in recent months, often in apparent violation of X’s rules. The paid accounts posting the content all consistently posted antisemitic or pro-Nazi material. Examples included praise of Nazi soldiers, sharing of Nazi symbols and denials of the Holocaust.
The pro-Nazi content is not confined to the fringes of the platform. During one seven-day period in March, seven of the most widely shared pro-Nazi posts on X accrued 4.5 million views in total. One post with 1.9 million views promoted a false and long-debunked conspiracy theory that 6 million Jews did not die in the Holocaust. More than 5,300 verified and unverified accounts reshared that post, and other popular posts were reshared hundreds of times apiece.
Even before Musk made it into a Nazi bar, I hated the way journalists used it as a source of news. Any old bullshit trending on twitter was a news story in itself. The fact that they're still doing even now it is horrific, leading to Channel 7 reporting nazi lies as news this week.
I also have a vague hypothesis that there is a "twitter accent" where you speak in shorthand which your cheer squad/echo chamber will understand, presenting opinions as fact and ignoring the need to justify statements with evidence or good arguments. You are also more nasty than is normally acceptable, more likely to resort to ad hominem attacks. JK Rowling and Bettina Arndt have spoken with pronounced twitter accents recently. You see a lot of twitter accents on Mastodon too, unfortunately.
I have a dream that the Australian government will do the same to xitter as it did to the Pirate Bay and other torrent sites, i.e. effectively ban it. It could also move its public communications to its own mastodon instances or similar fediverse platforms, and encourage use of open protocols in the same way it supported adoption of the internet in the early days, in the national interest.
Apparently the Australian government is trying to kill free speech, says the man who routinely deletes user accounts that are critical of him. I'm glad the commercial broadcast news world here is turning against him. His malignant existence is finally being seen for what it is.
'The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.' David Graeber
pipbarber wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:58 am
Apparently the Australian government is trying to kill free speech, says the man who routinely deletes user accounts that are critical of him. I'm glad the commercial broadcast news world here is turning against him. His malignant existence is finally being seen for what it is.
Wilcoxed!
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Greedy fuckers cannot self-regulate.
Prove me wrong.
joele wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:17 am
sigh, I assume this is over Australia's demands to remove snuff porn of the Sydney attack that Musk refuses to take down.
Skum has taken shedloads of stuff down. The deciding factor, in his case, is not a human-decency basis, but the whim of Ego Musk.
Greedy fuckers cannot self-regulate.
Prove me wrong.
Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:21 am
Skum has taken shedloads of stuff down. The deciding factor, in his case, is not a human-decency basis, but the whim of Ego Musk.
If you torture yourself and scroll through the replies to Elon's post you will see (almost immediately)
- Covid Conspiracy
- Great Awakening
- Open Anti Semitism
- Great Replacement theory
- Sovereign Citizens bullshit
- MAGA crowd
- Posts trolling MAGA crowd
And just a lot of stuff that looks like 4chan (though that is kind of the norm for X).
"Now this is the command: Do to the doer to make him do." - The Eloquent Peasant (2040–1650 BCE)
“Religion the protector of the well fed and consoler of the hungry.” - Mikhail Bakunin
Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:21 am
Skum has taken shedloads of stuff down. The deciding factor, in his case, is not a human-decency basis, but the whim of Ego Musk.
If you torture yourself and scroll through the replies to Elon's post you will see (almost immediately)
- Covid Conspiracy
- Great Awakening
- Open Anti Semitism
- Great Replacement theory
- Sovereign Citizens bullshit
- MAGA crowd
- Posts trolling MAGA crowd
And just a lot of stuff that looks like 4chan (though that is kind of the norm for X).
I accidentally lost the means to log in at the Birdshite.
SpaceBrat's decision to make content un-browsable to those not logged in? Even he has to do something right now and then.
Greedy fuckers cannot self-regulate.
Prove me wrong.
