> Because the things he says are contradictory, often very vague, and often extremely naive, either intentionally or unintentionally, regarding how hard it is to moderate content. As numerous industry leaders have pointed out, people on the Left think the Left is getting overly censored, people on the Right think the right is getting overly censored, in actuality it's an extremely complex system and the site admins just want people to stop threatening each other.
This is a claim that stinks of hypocrisy. If Twitter as it is removes Tweets under the vague and arbitrary notion of pursuing peace (i.e. heckler's veto), how is that any better than what people are accusing Musk of, even when he is not yet at the helm? Keep in mind that people like Yishan admitted to wanting to piss off Moral Majority conservatives during the Bush era. Twitter was ,according to Dorsey, the free speech wing of the free speech party. Why these people seek to compel a false peace now by appeasing today's equivalent is beyond me.
>Musk, however, has made it very clear that he feels the Right is being censored, and he will fix that, which doesn't bode well for people on the Left.
I'm hoping that if Musk actually does end up buying twitter, it leads to larger uptick for Mastodon.
He's made it clear that people shouldn't be removed from Twitter or have their Tweets deleted for statements that would be protected by the First Amendment. This is the opposite of censorship. The main argument I've seen from figures associated with the left is that they don't want another 4chan, as though somehow 4chan is an aberration of the Web, and not the closest representation to its natural state.
While I'm glad that Mastodon allows people to build their personal Twitters, I wouldn't depend on Mastodon to be censor-free either.
https://blog.alexgleason.me/gab-block/
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/11129