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When you say the White House’s contempt do you mean when they decided to stop spending money on Ukraine or…? I’m European and I couldn’t care less about blue c
by banqjls 1y ago
When you say the White House’s contempt do you mean when they decided to stop spending money on Ukraine or…?
I’m European and I couldn’t care less about blue checkmarks and I don’t want social networks censoring people. After all, every time the commission has publicly clashed with Musk it has been because the commission wanted more censorship and Musk doesn’t care. On what side should I be?
- jinzo 1y agoYes, nothing else comes to mind, does it? Invading Greenland? Tariffs? And that dosen't even go further than this past week. P.S: Don't believe the Big Scary Mainstream Media, Elon is very happy to censor people that he disagrees with.
- arandomusername 1y ago> Elon is very happy to censor people that he disagrees with Somewhat. Right now Twitter and IG are the least censored major social media.
- Timon3 1y agoAre there any independent studies that have confirmed this? I don't think such a study would still be possible given the API access limitations. We know that Twitter used to comply with far fewer government censorship requests in countries like Turkey and India before Musk took over, so actual data would be great.
- arandomusername 1y agoI am not aware of any study. I am talking in regards to censorship by the platform, not from the government/legally required. It is a personal observation, but one I think it's clearly observeable by anyone that looks at them. I don't need a study to tell me that Tokyo is cleaner than SF, or that 4chan has less censorship than reddit.
- Timon3 1y agoMy personal observation shows the opposite.
- arandomusername 1y agoCan you elaborate? Which platform do you find to be less censoring? Any views/accounts in particuular that are censored on Twitter but not other?
- Timon3 1y agoI appreciate you asking, but I've had these discussions before, and they've never turned out to be fruitful. At this point I'm only interested in (and going to change my mind if presented with) independent studies, but since those are no longer possible, I don't think this will happen.
- JumpCrisscross 1y agoThen why comment?!
- Timon3 1y agoWhy make my initial comment? I keep seeing this assertion in discussions around Twitter, but I've never seen it substantiated beyond personal anecdotes, and it runs counter to my own observations. It's possible that I'm wrong, so I like to ask for data backing up these assertions. Or are you asking why I made my last comment? I thought it was more polite than just not replying.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> When you say the White House’s contempt do you mean I mean the attitude shown in Signalgate. Europe is seen as a competitor to American power. (Also, like, threatening to invade an EU member’s territory.)
- rsynnott 1y agoIn practice, I suspect the immediate trigger here was tariffs.
- grey-area 1y agoProbably not on the side of the sieg-heiling oligarch.