Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform::The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said
I wouldn’t call it “surreal” at all, I’d call it “completely expected” given who runs that platform
Quit. Using. Twitter.
Person eating shit: THIS TASTES BAD, SOMEBODY SHOULD CHANGE THE TASTE
Quit eating shit.
I stopped using it before muskrat bought it.
I stop caring after i reported so many bots and a farm started harassing me.
I was on the fence about leaving…I didn’t use it very much to begin with, but it was useful for checking in on bands for whom Twitter was their preferred social media.
But the day that I read that Twitter was considering accepting Lone Skum’'s offer to buy it, I immediately deleted my account. Whether he ended up buying it or not, the fact that they’d even consider his offer told me all I needed to know. Twitter had become such an essential tool for so many oppressed people across the globe that for them to even entertain the idea of selling it to that pompous, no-talent cunt in order to enrich their shareholders was enough to hasten my exit.
That being said, once that sale was made…while I’d have preferred to see $44 billion go to the working class instead of a bunch of wealthy shareholders, I am much happier seeing it split up instead of remaining in the coffers of a bigoted fuck billionaire whose own kid disowned him. Fuck him.
O’Reilly said if he did not get his account back it would be “personally, quite annoying but professionally quite depressing” as Twitter was his route into his current profession as a journalist and author. He used it as a “shop front” in ways, he said.
“I was very, very reluctant to be a Twitter doomer because it had done so much for me… But it’s really at the point where it doesn’t really work in practical terms. It is not as useful as an object as it used to be. It incentivises lots of extremely negative and hateful speech and has really made that a big kind of calling card of its business for the last year or two… that you can go on there and say anything.”
Fediverse is waiting.
Social networks that do this should lose any safe harbor provisions. Government are so fucking far behind with basic common sense.
i hate banning anyone as much as the next anarcho-dingus but afaik there’s no law against banning whoever you want and i’m not sure there should be one. i don’t know what the answer is, if it isn’t public control of all social media.
maybe some public funded internet services such as defederated twitter and reddit alternatives? completely open and paid for with taxes, in direct competition with their for-profit contemporaries.
Well that’s actually exactly what I’d expect
