I know we are all using Blusky, but if you have a Twitter account, don't just not use it or deactivate it, actually cancel it! They rely on advertisers who pay according to users and member numbers.
Yes, I stumbled on it by accident via a link last night, and I was blown away by the content that’s on there now. I know that I have heard it stated by a lot of folks in the media, and on socials, but I never imagined how extreme it all is.
Duh. It was a state actor in 2011 during the Arab spring. You don’t have your state department using it to reshape the entire Middle East and not call it a state actor.
In the early days of Facebook, they referred to their user count as the 'population'. I think the big social media players have always thought of themselves as virtual nations.
Exactly.
As such, it cannot censor content based on political grounds.
The First Amendment only prohibits government restrictions on free expression.
But that’s a sword (or shield) with two edges, isn’t it?
Well yes because it locked my account for posting this video!
No sense of humor I tell you because I thought it was funny!
Apparently Elon disagreed... 😀
With at least three disingenuous members of SCOTUS, I keep my optimism in check, but it seems that Twitter cannot avoid being a state actor given how Musk uses it while Musk dances around an Appointments Clause violation or vice versa.
Only if you are on Twitter... which I'm not since November 2024... deactivate now and be part of the great replacement. Bluesky is the destination of choice these days.
I cancelled it last week. I thought it was way too political and full of outright BS. Twitter has not been the same at all since Musk took over. I tried to cleans who I was following but still did not see content often from those I liked most.
Even if you ignore all the political stuff, it's still just filled to the brim with toxicity. Someone I followed before I deleted the account on like July or August of last year had to leave the Internet entirely because people kept sending her gore over harmless art.
My wife is experiencing this also! This is happening on ALL the social media platforms. She involuntarily drops accounts she’s following. She’s had to re-follow AoC a dozen times the past few weeks.
Enacting censorship by blocking, deleting accounts, and also using the algorithm to kill discord and in this way violating the freedom of speech rights of Americans.
Twitter is a propaganda machine for Musk. I am sure Putin discussed all these methods of disruption with both Musk and Putin so that we can get to where we are.
a self-made king and his prince hold a meeting with the media
p: I'm writing AI to run the kingdom
media: *mused
p: 59% of the public need MASS misinformation
media: *confused
p: the media will manage it for me
media: *shocked
k: you will or else
media: we're in
It always was. A bunch of rich techies selling out to every single govt to hold onto their power, influence & profits. How longbhas it taken you to realise?
At this point there are three types of media: state media (x, Truth, Fox), state-adjacent media (trad media) & indies. Support the indies. That's the only hope.
I think it's more complicated. We see the birth of a new sovereign entity, built around Musk, something straight out of The Diamond Age, where Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX and the US government are all actors of that entity.
How do you all now that officially know the #fakenews really was centralized government propaganda?
Twitter isn't a state actor 🤣
You all just cannot handle people having different opinions.
Like with most oligarchies the line is purposefully blurred between state and non-state actors, but if the guy fielding questions in the Oval Office and meeting foreign heads of state is running a media company, yeah I’m pretty sure that counts.
You protect your X posts so you won’t be humiliated, or worse, community noted, then you abandon the town square to circle-jerk in a safe space and then bitch about unfair discourse.
You sure do post a lot, and to zero replies. And when someone does reply it always makes you look like a fool. Maybe you should go back to your hugbox on Twitter, this just isn't working out.
Any congressperson still on X is a traitor to this country. They should move to Bluesky or get off social media owned by corrupt billionaires altogether.
Elon has his own communications platform which is obviously heavily compromised. He has his own GLOBAL internet service provider as well. Do you think his customers REALLY have free and open internet?
I don't know. I left Twitter to not only be out of the toxic environment, but also to help in dropping its subscription numbers, but I guess a lot came here without deleting their Twitter account.
It's okay. You all in echo chamber so don't hear that everyone says "can't go on Blue Sky..everyone crazy over there" , headlines- "Blue Sky has death threat problem". On X people might be brutal but the unstable people are here.
Wishing harm on someone is wrong. But people tend to get angry at Nazis and the people who support them. People tend to get angry and lash out when their freedom and rights are being taken away. It might be good for you to turn on some news besides Fox or Newsmax just for like 20 minutes sometime.
Unfollowed nearly everyone on X and haven’t logged in since. Only reason I haven’t deleted my account is I don’t want the Nazis to get control of my handle.
How to get folks not only over here, but off twitter. I'm guilty of it. But I must admit, I LIKE the (dirty) weeds. And it's now an absolute cesspool. But people still like the cesspool, thus resistant. Id have an answer. But I've been off it 3 straight days, thus far...
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Get rid of it and invite your friends here.
https://www.madpenguin.org/how-do-you-permanently-delete-a-twitter-account/
I believe Elon is testing his AI program there, keep the feed at a consistent pace.
'X' has made it very difficult for me to even log in these days, I get a test every time i log in.
Just sayin'
Like YK
It's the Pravda of its day, crucial in disseminating state propaganda and shaping public opinion.
That's what I refer to them as☝️
As such, it cannot censor content based on political grounds.
The First Amendment only prohibits government restrictions on free expression.
But that’s a sword (or shield) with two edges, isn’t it?
No sense of humor I tell you because I thought it was funny!
Apparently Elon disagreed... 😀
We could help them help us!
you know, communicate things like natural disasters, or manmade ones
Not that I would advise any sane human to spend time watching the schweinhundes wallow in their own Twitter filth just to feel informed.
Twitter is just a cesspool.
the only possible debate you could have about this is if it's your state media or the state media of an occupying force
that ones up to you guys
Musk has said as much
a self-made king and his prince hold a meeting with the media
p: I'm writing AI to run the kingdom
media: *mused
p: 59% of the public need MASS misinformation
media: *confused
p: the media will manage it for me
media: *shocked
k: you will or else
media: we're in
Just sayin'
Twitter isn't a state actor 🤣
You all just cannot handle people having different opinions.
As is Truth, Parler and currently state co-erced TikTok, and by agreement, Meta also.
You've been living under state ran media your whole life if watched the news 🗞️🤣🤣🤣 that's what he just showed you! Did you miss that!!?
This is bond villain shit.
But ummm every single jobs report from Biden's term was adjusted down... straight lies.
From Labor Board !
By not deleting, you are giving credibility to them, which is ironic.
However, everyone should get the fuck off it.