I wonder what the over/under will be on how soon after launch it'll need to ban its first user. My bet is 3 months after launch, but maybe this will become Al Qaeda's new platform de jour!
Already happened (assuming this isn't fake): https://twitter.com/MattOrtega/status/1496006497389666306
Some excerpts from the Terms of Service [0] (in no particular order):
> you may not post any false, unlawful, threatening, defamatory, harassing or misleading statements;
> your Interactive Content should not contain discriminatory references based on religion, race, gender, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, or disability;
> your Interactive Content should not contain profanity, or abusive or racist, language;
> your Contributions do not advocate or incite, encourage, or threaten physical harm against another.
> your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, or misleading.
> your Contributions are not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, libelous, slanderous, or otherwise objectionable.
> your Contributions do not otherwise violate, or link to material that violates, any provision of these Terms of Service, or any applicable laws, rules or regulations.
> in our sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any of your Contributions or any portion thereof;
...it's going to be a ghost town if they enforce these, and it'll get deplatformed if they don't.
We must be on different internets, because where I am, it's definitely more than one political group, and it certainly is not limited to any particular area of the political spectrum. Everyone likes to think they're fighting the fight of the righteous, but very few actually are. Hell, if you look at a history of Trump and AOC's twitter feeds (back when Trump was on Twitter obviously), the tone is practically identical which is disturbing on a number of levels.
Best thing you can do is zoom out and stop playing tribal politics because as soon as you do, you'll realize both sides are equally disgusting. The left happens to have the weight of the establishment and institutions so they have more power/influence so I can see why you think the right is nastier. Giving you the benefit of the doubt here.
I've voted for presidents from both parties. Have you?
> both sides
Sure.
> are equally disgusting
I disagree.
Now there will be platforms where conservative speech wont be censored.
And worse (lol) is that blue circle people might get tired of the spoonfed stuff and go for a look. There is currently no where for isolated leftists to go to see what the right is about.
In the end, the echo chamber dies. But it might be like fiat currency.... It can go a very long time, lifetimes even maybe.
What’ll be funny is when that stark reality hits home, and the only uniquely allowed speech will be actual hate speech, that unambiguously evil stuff that pulls the mask off too far and gets banned for it.
Trump himself wasn't even banned until he crossed a line that had nothing to do with his conservative beliefs.
I don't see absolutes in reality very often either (if ever, if anywhere).
That's not the issue - which you may not know if your information sources air gap you from exposure to what gets banned by safely boxing it up as mis/dis/mal-information and move on - "nothing to see here, just fringe lunatics".
It's less a "conservative" issue, but can get painted that way because it's circumstantially adjacent at present, but may not be in the future. But more like banning anything opposed to orthodoxy as established/coordinated between government and private institutions. Look at how much speech about COVID was banned that is now reluctantly accepted, and how much is still banned. We all look at this and say disease shouldn't be politicized, but here politics is just a proxy for a core issue of censorship. It's hard to understand how people can call it anything other than censorship as it's mechanically exactly that. See note [1], etc. This classification of mis/dis/mal info also affects political (policy) opinions that are considered "unacceptable", hence the overlap with conservative politics.
[1] https://archive.is/PwIQr (https://www.wsj.com/articles/censorship-coordination-deepens...)
Classifying misinformation is not a partisan activity, just because one of the two US political parties engages more freely in lies and deceit.
The GOP does not hold a monopoly on conservative views and values, it's just one group of people making collective decisions that are objectively bad for everyone.