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kleinbl00  ·  717 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Twitter set to accept Musk's original $43 bln offer

maybe if I say it as a haiku?

What if it were a Gannt Chart?

Perhaps a candygram?

Okay, Trump runs on "keep me out of jail." Great. You think that's gonna energize his base? Remember - Clinton/Trump had the lowest turnout in history, Biden/Trump had the highest turnout in history. Does "keep me out of jail" draw out the MAGAts the way "build that wall" does? Does the Red Hat crowd wanna fight Culture War II with no bullets in the clip? Do you think it's an accident that they've gone local? That you have to stoke your chin to decide who has the bigger beef, McCarthy/Cawthorn or Boebert/MTG?

And again - WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH TWITTER?

The Libs are barking mad because their entire moral framework is "is it fair". They're insisting that the Right can't be mad about corporate speech because the Right always insists on the right of corporate speech without recognizing that only the Left cares about "is it fair." The Right cares about "do we win." This is why the Left has always had more traction with "the Right is immoral" than "the Right is unfair" because The Right cares more about their morality than they do about whether or not they parlay with the Left on equal terms because the Left so clearly doesn't deserve it.

The stupid thing, that nobody is paying any fucking attention to, including you, is that social networks function the way they do because they're designed around three or four orders of magnitude fewer moderators than they need because their profitability is fuckall. Push an agenda? The agenda of every social network is "what can we get away with without having to staff up" and any notion that the slant can be changed without poisoning the content is beyond naive at this point, it reflects a willful lack of attention to well-documented prior performance.

Never aspire to malice that which is more easily explained by incompetence is social networking to a T - Facebook sucks at their job, and a whole bunch of right-wing lobbyists are in the house to make sure right-wing stuff is even less filtered than left-wing stuff but it's all terrible. Facebook had a thousand moderators for a billion users. Twitter has about two thousand moderators for a third of a billion users. Musk wants them to do less work. The result is exquisitely predictable.

none of this has anything to do with the NYT profiling Tucker Carlson, banned libraries in Minecraft, or the straw man you've built in your head that is everything bad about people you don't like. The only reason I'm still even entertaining this conversation is otherwise-smart people can't let go of their FearBear because he keeps whispering "Only Jack Dorsey can save us from the 4th Reich" despite all evidence to the contrary.





am_Unition  ·  716 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The stupid thing, that nobody is paying any fucking attention to, including you, is that social networks function the way they do because they're designed around three or four orders of magnitude fewer moderators than they need because their profitability is fuckall.

Yeah I definitely devoted my second to last paragraph above to almost exactly this.

You brought up book banning/burning and related it to twitter quite well. I just thought it was cool that kids can access banned shit on a minecraft server.

I don't think Dorsey can save us. I think he already "helped" sculpt our current infosphere, and I think he did a shit job.

You're clearly angry with me. I dunno why, except for my admitting to being scared? So I'mma go.