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10 months agoNot on my instance either, I just see Donald Trump looking annoyed that there’s a camera.
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Ya, this is stuff we already know, isn’t it? Like, it’s just common knowledge
Summary and Key Moments
Courtesy of Kagi Universal Summarizer:
Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter has coincided with a surge in antisemitic speech on the platform. After the ADL met with Twitter executives, hashtags calling to ban the ADL emerged and Musk engaged in an online campaign against them. He blamed the ADL for Twitter’s loss in revenue and called them the biggest generator of antisemitism. His criticism echoed antisemitic tropes but he claimed to be for free speech. However, Musk uses Twitter more as a platform for his own speech where he can boost accounts he likes and throttle competitors. Premium users who pay more also see their tweets prioritized, skewing discussions right-wing. While a truly free speech platform would tolerate abhorrent ideas, Musk’s actions in threatening critics and amplifying certain voices shows he is using his power more to privilege voices close to his own views rather than promote liberty of discussion.
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Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter has led to a surge in antisemitic speech on the platform, sparked in part by Musk’s criticism of the Anti-Defamation League.
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Musk endorsed posts criticizing the ADL and started his own campaign against the organization, accusing it of being the biggest generator of antisemitism on Twitter.
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Musk’s criticism of the ADL tapped into classic antisemitic tropes while claiming to be against antisemitism.
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Musk portrays himself as a free speech absolutist but has used his authority on Twitter to suspend accounts and throttle competitors.
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Twitter under Musk has become a “pay-to-play” system where privileged accounts can boost their reach by paying a monthly fee.
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Far-right voices that engage in cruelty, bigotry and misinformation seem to dominate the platform.
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Musk’s own endorsements and responses on Twitter can instantly direct massive attention to certain accounts.
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Twitter resembles Musk’s “playpen” more than a free speech paradise, with Musk’s values shaping the platform.
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Merely tolerating abhorrent speech is different than agreeing with or amplifying it, which Musk has done.
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Musk’s invocation of free speech is disingenuous, as he uses his power to privilege certain voices over others.
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I respectfully have to disagree. They failed to bring relevant citations and evidence to support even basic claims such as why Nintendo and PC aren’t a part of the same market as PlayStation and Xbox, leaving the judge to argue that there was no reason to distinguish them without evidence to the contrary.
From what I’ve seen of the FTC, namely the lawsuit to stop the merger between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, I’m doubtful of Khan’s ability to form a case. That said, even a failed lawsuit against them is more than the FTC’s done yet to combat a big tech company’s unquestionable dominance.
If my gut feeling that this is a doomed lawsuit is right, it’s hopefully the first of many so that’s okay.
4·10 months agoI’m with you there
Yup, was just Steam DRM. There’s universal tools to crack that. Less so “you can’t play our game unless you spend money” and more “it’s slightly inconvenient to install this way, innit? Why don’t you go buy it instead, bruv?”
It’s hard to overstate how bold and game-changing the NLRB’s decision to the benefit of worker’s rights to collective action and form a union. They’ve successfully ushered in a reignition of the labour movement.
What type of media were you pirating?
I propose a new challenge:
Descriptive post titles.
Oh 100%. None of them authentically believe in the message of either song, and even Oliver Anthony can realize that despite the money they’re bringing in.
I saw someone the other day conclude he was probably a conservative plant, and i think there’s some truth to that, but I doubt he actually knew about it. Unfortunately though, he runs into a similar issue that a lot of poor conservatives do, thinking that those with even less than them are stealing from them their crumbs, but unlike them he also acknowledges that we only get crumbs in the first place.
Every time these conservatives start using someone’s music, it seems to always turn out that the artists actually really heavily oppose them. Funny how that is.
Why what?
That’s pretty explicitly antisemitic…
Oh great, Silicon Valley’s AI is just a major tech executive!
For starters, don’t make a post asking how to make a torrent site on your main account lol
Anymore? Yes. Used to be more, but at this point it’s basically just the shittiest person of the bunch.
For this community in particular, I think having a “federated community” would be especially helpful. Piracy communities will inevitably be taken down, but distributing them across many federated communities turns it into a game of whack-a-mole.
dbzer0 is no exception to this. There will be a time that the admin will start receiving DMCAs and will need to choose between complying and throwing themselves into legal jeopardy.
Unfortunately, the lemmy project maintainers and lead devs seem largely uninterested in such a feature and I lack the skill necessary to implement it, so it’s down to an invested and skilled community member, if it ever happens.
11·11 months agoThe IPO-minded business was unwilling to curtail and curate the userbase as every user was the equivalent to potential profit. There’s many many many people from Reddit who should not find a place online to call home. They can stay with the capitalists until the capital runs dry.
I see 7.
ditto, sawk, vulpix, feebas, onyx, ekans, metapod
Also he lists hadoop twice
Edit: I see I also made the onyx/onix mistake that someone made in this thread.