Twitter under MuskWill people desert in droves or will it become (as I fear) a magnet for the righteous right?
Heads, the righteous right. Tails, the lofty left.
I might join twitter just so I can flounce-off on principle of something or other….
Oh, so you don't have an account. Just afeared in principle there'll be more opportunities for
wrongthink.He's going to ruin it for everyone isn't he? He's going to put in an edit button, I just know it.
As opposed to just ruining it for those who have to self-edit even before typing to keep from getting banned for not following
the company line.It means that you should be allowed to express your opinion, not that your opinion should make you immune from the consequences.
'Consequences' are particularly beloved of activists who have no great love of
freedom of speech.Marina Hyde is a genius. This quote from the article by her completely summarises, better than I ever could, my own disillusionment with this particular forum.
"If you spend your day caught up in online fighting, it’s preferable to tell yourself you’re involved in consciousness-raising for your cause. An alternative view is that you are simply obsessively polarising your particular debate, to the point where compromise – boring, unfashionable, yet historically always necessary – becomes a more distant possibility."
.....and the Real Tennis analogy.
I'm sure we can all think of examples where compromise isn't possible, but sure, let's be reasonable and keep from getting too het up about anything.
Thanks for sending me on a rabbit hole into
tennis though.
Elon Musk is a twat.
Reuters reckon he probably can't be arsed with it anyway.
Twat.
Humour me, why is this so important then?
Isn't free speech a good thing?
There's always the 'off' button don't forget.
I don't accept the premise of the question. The person about to answer you doesn't have a discernable sense of humour (either).
Some less educated people will fall for an easy lie to in place of discovering the more complicated by truth. Eg "taking back control"
Especially if it plays to their already formed prejudices, or unconcious biases.
Guess who just made it onto my shortlist for people I wouldn't want in charge of figuring out who's educated to the required standard for uncensored tweeting.
Twitter, TicTok, if they're all so bad why use them?
Because I can just ignore the misinformation and abuse and read the stuff I am interested in. Like I do with NACA.
Ignore misinformation and abuse? You mean the fun parts?
Every time someone complains about the Independent paywall it makes me feel like some sort of genius hacking savant.
That made me laugh, but more droll is the notion that the Independent still publishes anything worth paying for.
there comes a point at which it starts to feel like playing chess with pigeons
I've got this idea in my head that I'm not really very tech savvy compared with most.
Moments like this make me feel like a modern day Ada Lovelace
Whereas I feel like a modern day Linda Lovelace…
Not sure I follow. Are you saying you're unfulfilled unless a fanciful sexual organ south of your tonsils is nudged? Or do you feel a kinship with the abused adult film star turned born again Christian anti porn crusader? Perhaps I'm being too literal and what you're getting at is technology is constantly shoved down our throats.
Asking why people look at twitter is like asking why people look at the internet, it really is very diverse. It has people from pretty much every imaginable walk of life, you can chose to read what they have to say, and engage with them, or not.
Next you'll be telling me lurking isn't engaging.