German anti-racism body leaves X over ‘rise in hate speech’::A German agency that tackles discrimination and racism says it is quitting the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. It cited a rise in hate speech since owner Elon Musk took over last year.
You know you fucked up when Germany chastises you for racism.
Doesn’t Germany have the strongest anti-racism laws in the world since the end of Nazi Germany? And also the country accepting the most immigrants during the refugee crisis (and among the top counting per capita I think)?
I visited Germany recently, and I did notice more racism than I’ve seen at home. There were some distant relatives of mine, who I’ve never met before, casually making racist jokes to each other, without attempting to hide it.
Doesn’t Germany have the strongest anti-racism laws in the world since the end of Nazi Germany?
Possibly, but not by a large margin compared to other European countries
And also the country accepting the most immigrants during the refugee crisis (and among the top counting per capita I think)?
Not by a long shot, Turkey took in 3.7 million Syrians, Germany 788k, and both countries have ballpark the same population.
Not by a long shot […]
Right, I concede. The neighboring countries did accept way more. Germany is still accepted significantly more than the vast majority of countries (though it bears mention that Germany is also quite a massive country, for example Sweden’s number of refugees seem small in comparison but is fairly close in refugees per capita).
Shouldn’t the anti-racism group, like… Fight harder instead of just letting the racists have at it? 🤔
In what way? Even one of their own people is quoted in the article:
Ataman said FADA could only try to combat the surge in hate comments by channeling more resources to the platform, which could be a questionable use of public money.
Leaving the platform altogether isn’t fighting against the discrimination or misinformation. They’re more worried about how their agency would be perceived staying on the platform. This isn’t a statement. It’s giving up.
Something tells me they were paid to move to one of the other proprietary platforms.
I guess we’ll see if they choose Mastodon or one of the proprietary platforms.
You must be woefully innocent if you think people aren’t paid to switch and promote different platforms.
I recommend looking into how Red Bull got big. They literally paid influential people on college campuses to shill their product to people who can’t think for themselves.
Uh, your comment doesn’t make sense. Mastodon is part of the fediverse and is Foss.
Shouldn’t that be exactly why they don’t leave the place they’re “needed most?” Why exist solely to “preach to the saved?” The only reason Religion does that is to exploit the congregation out of their money.
I finally deleted Twitter from my phone a couple weeks ago.
I only used it for porn for the last 3 years and hadn’t been on in over a month but I saw an article on here and was curious. So I opened it up and looked to see how the porn situation was going. I was going to keep it around if I could find a bit of good porn. But I scrolled and scrolled down through my feed and I only had politics, bigots, ragebait, and hateporn. I hadn’t realized it had gotten so bad… I also have no idea where all my porn creators fled to.
Oh well, nothing of value was lost.
