The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X::The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

  • Chunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    424·
    9 months ago

    Can we take a step back for a second and think about the human condition that led someone to need a moral argument to get off X? What kind of pathetic, fucked up mind do you have where you can’t just uninstall the app you have to appeal to morality.

    • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
      English
      20·
      9 months ago

      Well there is a difference between disliking something and believing it is actively harmful. If you believe it is actively harmful for humans and society, it makes sense that you want to appeal to the society as a whole. Then you need to reason for why you feel the way you do. And there we go.

      • orrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Facebook causes genocides in every 3ed world nation they push into.

        social media is, as it is now, designed to push the worst. most racist, most murderous rhetoric because it garners more engagement.

          • orrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            because what makes Elon harmful for humanity is basically the same thing that makes Facebook harmful, massive uncontrolled influence on society

            • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
              English
              1·
              9 months ago

              Well it depends on what you see as an acceptable cost of the benefits of social Media. You could easily find differences between platform, in their function and in their moderation. These differences might be valid reasons to give it a different evaluation.

              But in case, you want to argue about whether or not Twitter is moral; and/or whether or not Facebook is as bad as Twitter, I am not interested in the discussion and my points weren’t made in support of the position that Twitter is harmful but only in “defense” of people voicing their moral evaluation of social Media.

    • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I don’t think someone publishes an article to try to convince themselves to not use it. Of course it’s to convince other people why to not use it.

    • SolNine@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      This 100%! I barely used Twitter to begin with, but as soon as he went off the deep end, I completely deleted my account.

    • Numberone@startrek.websiteEnglish
      414·
      9 months ago

      This whole twitter thing is like some lib version of a moral panic. Who cares, just get off it if you don’t like the experience. But no, they all need to tell everyone how this makes them so morally pure.

      • oatscoop@midwest.social
        English
        31·
        9 months ago

        Moral panics are over things that don’t have negative real world consequences.

        We’ve repeatedly seen what happens when disinformation and violent, extremist speech is given a place to flourish on social media. The crazies get even more radicalized, organized, and emboldened. They start taking actual action.

        Qanon, the proud boys, unite the right, patriot front, January 6th – where do you think those ideas gestated and grew to critical mass?