Yup, that’s what happens whenever “civility” is the primary metric used for moderation.
Trolls post heinous nonsense, and respond to people in the most insufferable rage-bait-y manner. But if anyone so much as calls them an asshole, they get their comments removed for saying a no-no word.
This is a display of power, and dominance. It’s a taunt.
To “clarify” by both denying the claim and doubling down on the claim at the same time. To state that people taking the words as a threat are snowflakes, while immediately threatening them again. And to do it twice over, reclarifying his original threat with another one.
He knows that makes no sense. But words don’t have to make sense under fascists. Only power makes sense. He knows he can get away with it. That’s the point.
The journalist should have drilled him on the spot.
And unfortunately, that gives them power in undermining progressives.
stop enabling a broken system.
What do you mean “enabling”?
The system is broken, I fully agree. But it exists, and sadly it isn’t going anywhere. Not voting is not going to change that, the system is just going to continue, unaffected, and will continue to affect people’s lives. Your only options, within the system, are to minimise harm or to not do that.
The system absolutely needs to be changed. But not voting isn’t going to change it. And reducing harm isn’t somehow making that change more difficult.
The DNC would have to accept that they need to nominate a truly progressive candidate
I think they’d rather die.
I mean unironically yeah. They can basically ignore a significant part of the electorate with the threat of the Republicans coming into power if those voters don’t capitulate on their interests and vote Democrat. It’s a hostage situation.
For fascists, the only dealbreaker is appearing weak.
Yup. Even in the same piece of legislation:
But it is worth pointing out, as much as it seems hypocritical of them to do this: Conservatives know. They do not care. It’s not hypocritical because they have never believed that the rules should ever apply to them. It’s a strategy, and it is very, very effective.
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Yeah seriously this is a basic safeguarding concern. Don’t out people. If the child wants their parents to know, they will tell them as and when they are ready.
For those of us not in the US, I think this also highlights the real need to loosen the US’s stranglehold on the Internet at large. The US has disproportionate power to control content on the Internet as a whole, because so many services and so much infrastructure resides there.
This highlights the importance of building redundant services elsewhere in the world, and moving content outside the US in general. So if the US tries to remove LGBTQ+ content in some cultural crusade, you laugh at them. Make them firewall it, like China, if they don’t like it.
This is bigger news than some folks may realise. Twitter is MASSIVE in Japan, their market penetration is huge there. Losing grip on Japan would be a major blow to the company.
Also probably a blow to Elon’s dream of becoming a cyberpunk corporate overlord, considering the genre’s bubble-inspired imagery.
Do you vote for Republicans?