Any platform that welcomes or caters to the political right wing is rendered effectively useless.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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"If you flag our lies, we'll cry!!!!" -Republicans
Are you asking for big tech to decide what's true or not?
// Not American or conservative in the least, but the idea sounds dystopian to me.
Beats the hell out of the Republicans deciding it. The Pandemic outed them.
Republicans certainly seem a bit insane but I don't see how I don't see how that means we should be ok with big business being arbiters of truth, with no oversight.
Business will further the interests of their shareholders, democrat, republican or not. Giving them carte blanche to "create truth" is giving the shareholders that power, most of which is controlled by a few investment banks. They do not care about us or societal problems.
I was meh on the whole meta fediverse thing but yeah, fuck em. Already defederated them and they aren't even using it yet.
@JRepin The right is flush with cash from all these billionaire funded foundations. They mount such coordinated campaigns for their causes because they have that money. The tax code is the biggest enabler of the right’s rise. If the left ever gets a majority again, they need to remove tax loopholes for “charitable donations” to thinly veiled political organizations. It would definitely slow the influx of money.
Twitter and Truth Social have already captured the right-wing market, kowtowing to their demands is not going to earn Threads new users and will discourage moderates from signing up.
Also, it totally proves that any instance that preemptively defederates from them is 100% in the right (for any people who honestly believe in a wait and see approach).
if you create a fresh new unlinked tiktok account and start swiping, most content will be vaccine propaganda, jordan peterson, and right-wing rhetorics.
Thank God. Tired of big tech flagging anything that doesn't pander to the left-wing liberal agenda as "disinformation"
We don't want your disinformation on this platform, either. :)
I'm sure you love to live in your own bubble. Go outside and experience the real world for once. If you are so blind that you can't see you're being manipulated then there's nothing I can do about that.
Same could be said about the users whining that their misinformation/disinformation is getting blocked on social media.
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So is this the same or different TraditionalMuslim that felt the need to share with us how evil trans individuals are a few days ago?