So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

I dont want to be "exposed" to racists calling black posters N/££ER all day.

It really isn't:

• The top replies are no longer the best or funniest. Instead they're all the twitter blue subscribers who tend to be weird Elon Super fans, consipracy theorists, crypto accounts, pro-Russian propaganda accounts, libertarians or far-right types who want to turn everything into a culture war topic.
• The bot situation has gotten out of control - During big sporting events I used often search the official hastags to see what people were saying online. If you do that now 90% of the replies will be bots trying to get you to click on (what they claim to be) illegal streams. Then in the replies you see the same porn-bot type accounts over and over.
• Low quality ads all over the place "Do you need to lose weight now?", "Look at this crappy knick-knack for your home"
• Removing the ability to see who liked a post. Making it way heard to find the quote tweets for a particular tweet
• An incentive scheme that just makes people try and post outrageous stuff in order to generate clicks to farm outage

And that's just the structural stuff.

Musk will use his fake bots, and his algorithm to promote racist Nazi vomit and worse. You won't be able to stay away from them. He will flood Twitter through his account and you won't be able to block or mute. The only choice will be to stay away from Twitter. This is clearly a tactic to drive moderates from Twitter so he can use it as a loudspeaker to spread hate and lies. And he has given himself the biggest loudspeaker.

Do you think it is ok to troll rape survivors and tell them they deserved to be raped?

Because Musk does, by his actions of commission and omission.

The argument from your previous posts welcomes the fact that such a survivor on twitter should not be allowed to block or mute the spewers of such hate?
Do you welcome that? It's ok because she is being "exposed to opinions she doesn't like"?
And this is not me putting words in your mouth. This is me applying the logic expressed in your previous post to actual scenarios that have played out on Twitter.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64804007

It's very important to hear both sides of the arguments apparently.

Such as misogynist trolls being able to tell rape survivors they deserve to be raped.

Such as Nazis spewing hatred about mixed race couples.

That's robust first Amendment territory according to Musk, apparently.

Before Youtube changed it's algorithm, a search for e.g. "9/11" would bring up hundreds of conspiracy videos. Likewise with Google.

People with extreme views are more inclined to share and spread those views, often faster than they can be refuted.

For example, a dozen people are estimated to be responsible for the majority of global anti-vaccine disinformation. Musk has handed those people a megaphone and a bigger audience.

Community notes were introduced in 2021 before Musk bought it. It was expanded in 2022, especially after he bought it. It's slow to react, misses most misleading tweets and isn't a replacement for a trust and safety team.

Leon Musk regularly removed notes from his own tweets.

I dont go near them, they show up on my feed and in the replies to others.

You cant just get away from these people on that app. The whole app is structured to allow blue tick subscribers top row seat in any thread.

If there is even a hint of any thread that may criticize anything Musk says or does you can be damn sure the army of Musk stans will be out in force at the top comments defending him like their lives depended on it.

I ditched X well over half a year ago now, and while there is some content I will now miss out on because of it. I am sure it is the best decision I have made. The very worst dregs in society having free rein to spout any hate they like. You can keep your free speech app if that's what it looks like.

More people are feeling the same way by the day and are ditching X, the site will become more of an echo chamber of hate and racism by the day if that trend continues.

You ignored the end of my post

No, I haven't. I said that both left and right opinions should be equally free, and if they are people trying to suppress one or the other they are obviously not supporting free speech.

Elon Musk's keeps banging on about free speech absolutism but time and time again he has caved to authoritarian governments (China, Saudi Arabia to name a couple) when asked to block accounts of dissidents that they wanted to silence.

I guess "Free Speech for all……………….unless a large country who I'm trying to flog my cars to or a country with a large chunk of this company tells me to block someone" doesn't have the same ring to it.