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Twitter has just become absurd and ridiculous in terms of the censorship, to the point where it is now a big part of the general public discussion.
Elon Musk is whatever. I’ve realized that a big part of his personality is wanting to be cool. That’s different than wanting to be popular. You might remember that from high school – the kids that were “popular” were not the same as those who were “cool,” with the former usually playing sports and the latter usually skateboarding and smoking pot (this is the millennial experience, at least). They distinguished themselves from each other by the type of clothes they wore and music they listened to.
Most celebrities now want to be popular, which means going along with the mainstream. Elon seems heavily concerned about his personal image, and yet makes a point to signal against weird tranny stuff and other identity politics, virus hoaxing, socialism, and so on. He also married (and was quickly dumped by) some indie rock/goth chick.
Anyway, the issue is that he says stuff and never follows through, and just continues making overpriced exploding cars subsidized by the government.
But I guess it’s still worth paying attention to what he says?
He’s now saying he’s giving “serious thought” to building his own social media platform.
He tweeted out a poll last Thursday, asking about freedom of speech on Twitter. More than 70% of respondents said there was no free speech on Twitter (not sure what those other 30% think is happening).
Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.
Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2022
Then on Friday, he said the platform was undermining democracy; if you believe in the UN’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights definition of democracy, there is no possible way to argue it isn’t doing that – though the present meaning of “democracy” as it is used by most people who use the term means something totally different, for which censorship is a fundamental necessity.
Is a new platform needed?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 26, 2022
He hasn’t followed up on the issue since.
All of these free speech platforms have been problematic thus far. Gab was the first one, and was a disaster. I don’t think it had to be that way, but they were quickly taken over by FEDbots claiming to be neo-Nazis. They were posting hardcore gay porn in my feed, and the ownership of Gab said that there would never be a function to block users, or a ban on porn, because those are both free speech. They also did not rank content for new users using any kind of responsible algorithm, so whenever anyone signed up, all they saw was people saying “nigger” and posting gay porn. It’s not surprising that a lot of people skipped that. Gab also banned my friend weev for no clear reason.
Parler was another debacle. They seemed like they were going to ban “hate speech,” though they didn’t really ever get off the ground as they couldn’t manner some – rather light, in my opinion – censorship following January 6.
Then you had GETTR, which was run by a Chinese billionaire fugitive and Steve Bannon, and actually had less free speech than Twitter. GETTR banned Nick Fuentes outright, because they said no one is allowed to criticize Jews. It was botted out to the max with fake followers.
Now Donald Trump is talking about making a free speech platform, but his team has already made clear that no one is allowed to talk about Jews.
Free speech on the internet has to be based exclusively on the First Amendment. There is no other reasonable metric. So you have to be able to say “niggerkikefaggot.” You cannot try to define “hate speech.” Of course, now censorship is much more extreme than simply banning anything right-wing as “hate speech” – when the virus hoax began, they started banning anyone who questioned the CDC or Anthony Fauci. Now they’re openly banning anyone who doesn’t fully stand with the Ukrainian Anal Fourth Reich.
However, if you want a normal platform, you can’t just let the whole front page fill up with people saying “nigger” over and over again. I think it is mostly feds that do that, but also people just think it’s funny (I think it’s funny). But this would be easily fixed through an algorithm, where people are asked (as they are asked on Twitter) to follow ten accounts to begin with, which shapes the kind of content they see. Anything to prevent people who visit the site or sign up newly from seeing: “today’s top post is ‘niggers, kikes, and faggots get the gas.'”
Of course, if a person follows “NiggerLyncher1488,” they will then start seeing fed related content. The problem with social media now is not that they have algorithms designed to cater to the kind of content people want to see – everyone likes that – it’s that they’ve changed these algorithms to try to manipulate people. The AI will do its job, and was doing its job before they started messing with it over the last 5 years.
Anyway, Elon probably has the ability to make this work. But I doubt he will. He’s probably just throwing this out there to try to stop Twitter from banning him.
I think the window to save free speech on the internet is over. I’m always hopeful about alternative platforms, of course, but as we’ve seen with this site, there is nothing for these backbone services.
