Comment by fsckboy
21 days ago
what hypocrisy!
it's like my alcoholic doctor telling me I need to cut my drinking: his advice may be sound, but it's rich coming from him.
I'm referring to the people who denied or did not decry the previous twitter administration deleting huge volumes of tweets they didn't like, the people who now populate bluesky and the fediverse they themselves are quite open about saying, because it's a cozy little echo chamber world where the people who disagree are erased from their view
The previous Twitter administration was quite open about the censorship they were doing and the reasons they did it. You may not like the result, but at least they tried to deal with their inherent conflict of interest (commerce vs. societal good) in a thoughtful way. The current one, on the other hand, constantly trumpets its free-speech absolutism while Elon tells the staff to delete whatever he wants whenever he wakes up in a bad mood, and artificially boost his own trolling.
>The previous Twitter administration was quite open about the censorship they were doing and the reasons they did it
that is completely false.
you should work on developing respect for the opposing views of people of honest intent.
I doubt it's completely false. So...same to you, I guess.
Moderation isn’t censorship. Many comments are “killed” on this very website. You can see them with the “show dead” option.
censoring evidence of covid gain of function research and subsequent lab leak is not moderation
shadowbanning which stops people from seeing content is also censorship, you're wrong (and don't confuse mix this site with twitter either)