Technology

When your whole identity is consumed by boundless, baseless, joyless hatred of "the other", yes, you're gonna be negative.

I don't believe Musk is controlled by any of that though. He might share in it, but it doesn't quite dictate him as much as it dictates those in actual misery. For example, he isn't actually opposed to letting immigrants in, if they'll make him richer. He's motivated by greed and grift, and no small helping of pride.

I suspect he just doesn't want people criticising him and his cronies. Particularly when they inevitably start enacting policies that affect their base negatively (we've already seen our share of face-eating leopard voters shocked to find out that their face isn't off limits), social media could help pissed off people realise how many others are pissed off too. I don't think I need to spell out why that could be dangerous for him.

Better to quell dissent entirely. If nobody can complain about the government, it's harder to organise against it. Suppress criticism, censor the media, manipulate what you get to see to shape your view...

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

(Obligatory note that calling a dictatorship communism doesn't make it less authoritarian than a capitalist dictatorship. Red boots hurt just as much as any other color if they step on your neck, no matter how tasty they might be. That has nothing to do with the topic, I'm just bracing for tankie whataboutisms.)

I think Mastodon does fine, too, but I've often heard people complain about the lack of an algorithm. Like, they don't know how to find things if they aren't being shoveled into their feed

But you had all these rightwing weirdos complaining they were being censored because "the algorithm" didn't promote their weird little ideas enough!

Back when.
So tweaking the algorithm is quite literally censorship!

Not that this "free-speech absolutist" has proven particularly true to his word.

Double plus ungood!

"Maybe if you tell me the bad news in a good way, it won't sound so bad."

Free speech abolitionist, more like.

No he's gonna ban anyone who disagrees with him.

Oh, c'mon, who's going to tell him he is the best dad? He needs them.

No, bots are still needed for hating illegal immigrants.

Ah, but there are still elections in other parts of the world, like Germany, where he is also very active

This has nothing to do with Twitters image. He could have enforced that decision sooner if it was. This is about Trump. The negativity was helpful during Bidens presidency. Now that Trump is about to take over everything has to look like the world is happy again. It's political manipulation.

I like how you say "that uses" instead of "that uses it" because the former generally implies drug use.

A cisgender guy.

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