• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    Wait, I’m shocked Xitter had numbers as high as 14% when it comes to dealing with hate speech…

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      Once reported an obvious anti-Semitic post that I found (was curious if they actually would). Took them a week or two but they actually took it down. I was shocked.

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        One engagement dies down around a post they can take it down and just pretend they’re oh so backlogged to save face.

        Everyone saw it already, the damage was done.

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          Of course, they might actually be backlogged because Musk fired almost everyone who dealt with that stuff. When you hamstring a department, they can quickly fall behind on their work.

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    Twitter, as far as I have recalled, has almost always been a cesspool for hot takes and hate. Just with Elon in charge the flood gates have really opened and has acquired a particular flavor mimicking his own tastes.

    The real question now is if this will ultimately lead to the ban or slow death of Twitter. People really can only put up with so much vitriol.

    Many countries are lining up with laws and bill coming after social media, usually under the goal or “goal” of protecting kids, so we will see how things turn out. Might even be a quicker death/change then.

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    Hey, they did managed to react on my hate speech posts… against v.putin. Rather quickly too. So yeah, if you are a dictator, its all Gucci.

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    “We don’t want to be the ones policing forums.”

    At the same time

    Elon aids the enemy in the Ukraine and Russia conflict.

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        Check their post history. Next most recent comment is calling Lyft sexist for letting women select the gender of their driver, and the one after that is saying that there should be no limits on landlord’s ability to evict.

        This is not someone operating in good faith.

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      Except when elon doesn’t like what you write. Then the free speech isn’t that free any more

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    This is true both before and after it was owned by musk, it just went from left wing hate speech to right wing hate speech

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        “Fascists should k*ll themselves” got me banned from xitter so that’s the kinda ‘hate speech’ they care about

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        Those billionaires have too much money and people should be able to afford a one bedroom apartment on a full time minimum wage job!

        /Hatespeech

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        Calling for the genocide of whites, men, straight people, certain political ideologies, praising the appropriation of Western European culture to “subvert” it and rewrite it, banning books, etc…

        Edit: oh shit, thought Reddit was the delusional echo chamber, maybe it’s Lemmy, too.

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          Who is calling for such things?

          And as for banning books, are you sure it’s the left that’s doing that? Because I can share some links with you…

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            https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2014/03/a-twitter-hashtag-probably-doesnt-prove-feminists-want-to-kill-all-men/359493/

            Almost every extreme view will likely have someone pushing those ideals through xitter at some point. Whether or not those posts gain any sort of traction or represent a greater movement could still be up for debate.

            Quick note: this isn’t meant to support or oppose any side or position. Just putting information out there addressing the question that was posed.

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              I can’t read past the paywall, but it looks like that hashtag was meant to be sarcastic. Denying the Holocaust, praising Hitler, saying racist things… those are not done with sarcasm.

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                Would you accept other hate speech provided it’s qualified as “sarcastic”? How should xitter determine sarcastic messages vs serious ones?

                And saying the entirety of that hashtag was used sarcastically is incredibly presumptuous. How would someone prove to you that it was used at least once seriously?

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                  I would say that entirely depends on how it’s worded. This was a parody of another hashtag that was being used sarcastically. I would not call that hate speech in any way. I’m sorry, but “killallmen” is clearly not meant the way the hate speech being allowed on Twitter is meant now. There’s a world of difference. It’s not even comparable.

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          Wow, a whole list of “things that never happened.”

          Please, get help to escape the conspiracy feedback loop you’re obviously in.

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          Would you like to show us on doll where your imaginary evil strawman touched you?

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            Nowhere. I was nowhere near it, and it made false allegations that I sexually assaulted it. Now my life is ruined over lies and cancel culture. —that guy, probably