If you are a reporter, I do not see how you could use or trust that platform at this point.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2024
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Strongly agree but lots keep using X, in fact it seems to get worse :(
Momentum is a hell of a drug
There's most definitely not more users. But there's a alot not going away either.
In my country corporations and even sports clubs are pulling out of Twitter. So it's definitely getting less and less relevant.
Be cautious/aware, that X is full of bots. Especially since Musk's takeover. They train their AI (Gronk) with the content on X.
I'm a little surprised by Twitter restricting an account for that. Of course I never believed Musk's free speech rhetoric, but this isn't a specific issue where I'd expect them to put their thumb on the scale so blatantly.
It is nonsense that courts can require an online platform to host content from somebody they don't agree with, this is compelled speech. And we're cheering it on because X is seen as a political opponent. It sure will be fun when the shoe is on the other foot and courts are thinking they have some right to force lemmy to host or not host certain kinds of content that doesn't agree w the new party line or is "misinformation". "COVID was a lab leak" was misinformation until the world government's decided it might actually have merit as an idea. Handing the government speech control powers like this is dangerous. Democracy relies on people being able to choose what they say and don't say and share or not share that information.
And we’re cheering it on because X is seen as a political opponent.
I'm cheering this on among others because the shadow-banned person wrote something important about a sick EU law proposal that tried to break E2EE.
that ~~tried~~ tries to break E2EE.
Truth is : either they are a infrastructure provider and they allow everything inside the free speech of each country they operate in, either they choose what gets promoted or is allowed differently from the local free speech and they are an editor. They can't (and imho should never have been allowed to) choose only the benefits of each one without any obligation.
No one is forcing Twatter to say anything, they are forced to let someone say something.
It is a result of free speech. Although not from the American perspective, as that only relates to the government. However, over here it also means that the government has to enforce your rights against others too. And since platforms like facebook and Twatter are as big as they are… Tough luck for them to have to host someone linking to a news article they wrote.