A search for Threads content on Twitter currently brings up zero results, despite plenty of links to Meta’s microblogging rival being posted on the platform.
A search for Threads content on Twitter currently brings up zero results, despite plenty of links to Meta’s microblogging rival being posted on the platform.
People are free to either agree with the CEO view or to not use the platform. Sad but true. At least it reminds us all that it is a private for-profit company and always has been. No matter whether the “value” of it was mostly provided by user-created contents.
It’s kind of a good example as to why the “benevolent dictator” idea is fundamentally flawed—you don’t really get two benevolent dictators in succession unless you’re incredibly lucky, and doesn’t matter how lucky you are, you’re not getting three in a row
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It’s not even that, free speech is about the government, not private entities, it’s about not being arrested for what you say, it has nothing to do with what private companies do on their platforms, they’re free to do what they want and they’re not limiting any free speech by doing so because they’re not the government.
It’s baffling how many people still don’t understand that and go on crying about free speech related to private entities.
I thought the point of the constitution was that it confirms existing rights, not allows or forbids something. While the usual laws do allow or forbid.
Free speech in the web was really funny in the 00s, when moderators could partake in long discussions about it, and then just ban somebody for looking at them wrong (figuratively).
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I’m glad you do, it’s just that many people don’t get this very important difference. If this wasn’t important for your message, then fine.
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Just take your pills and have some tea, will ya?
You’re the only person knowing for sure whether they change your message. Others may interpret it in various ways.
well not really free if their job depends on Twitter.
He’s done everyone a few favors. He showed us that the government sticks it’s fingers into social media in ways that are illegal, and he also showed us that corpos aren’t a good alternative because they’ll stick their fingers into social media in ways that are legal.
Decentralization and self-hosting is ultimately the only protection against forces that want to force us to see what they want us to see and nothing else.
Ah great. Here comes another believer of the “Twitter Files”.
So just because I believe that Hillary Clinton used Hunter Biden’s laptop to collaborate with Twitter in a conspiracy to suppress conservative’s “Free speech”, I’m crazy?
You had me raging for a second.
I mean, the Twitter Files are, pretty objectively, true
Sure, but they also don’t actually contain 95% of what people claim they contain.
He showed us that the government makes requests and Twitter doesn’t care because they don’t have to. So what?