And I don't even consider myself a conservative. I just like my information uncensored.
He censors. He just censors the things he doesn’t like. Can you give an example of anything you can say on Twitter that you can’t say on, say, Mastadon or even Facebook?
Taibbi is still on Twitter and is posting like every hour:
> Can you give an example of anything you can say on Twitter that you can’t say on, say, Mastadon or even Facebook?
Ask Trump.
As a centrist Australia, it was clearly leftist.
I much prefer it now, I can actually see post from both sides.
I have a friend who thinks X and Elon are great, and yet he misses the possibility of no platform at all to interfere in your communications.
Many Twitter accounts have been locked post Elon, so it's curious to me how anyone can consider it truly uncensored or free speech in any capacity.
Examples:
- Donald Trump.
- Milo Yiannopoulos.
- Paul Joseph Watson.
- Laura Loomer.
- Alex Jones.
On the other hand, pg, the creator of this site, was banned under the new management at Twitter. Ditto many other people whose only transgressions were saying words like “cis” or relaying publicly-available information.
Free speech indeed.
I mean, literal Nazis post hateful shit every day and don’t get banned. So the takeaway is that as long as you don’t anger the toddler-in-chief you’re good to go. Free speech!!
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-a...
Twitter claimed it was biased towards rightwing politicians and news outlets, while refusing to release the data that it claimed would show this.
> The idea that Twitter was "censoring conservatives" was always a lie, because they tended to break the rules more often.
Were those rules neutral? Even more importantly, were the people determining whether those rules were broken or not?
No, this is a lie. The rules were applied in a very one-sided manner. A left-leaning poster would not even get a warning, while a right-leaning one would get insta-banned forever for the smallest infraction.
Before Musk, Twitter's full compliance rate hovered around 50%; since the takeover, it is over 80%.
These countries include China [2] and India [3].
[1] https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-or...
[2] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/twitte...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/05/twitter-accuse...
So you can't argue that X cares more about free speech than Twitter when they aren't willing to fight those laws through the judicial system. As always judge people on their actions not their words.