Twitter files

Status
Not open for further replies.
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

Well-Known Member
Roger A. Shrubber said:
ever heard of the word semantics? how about misdirection? we're not talking about military conflict, we're talking about gun deaths in the united states recently...stay on topic, it's hard enough to force myself to read the swill you post, without you misdirecting like a traffic cop on mushrooms.
Click to expand...
I'll try harder to accomodate your reading deficiencies.

Roger A. Shrubber said:
they could ban anyone they want, for any reason they want...since it is a PRIVATELY OWNED platform.
Click to expand...
If Twitter could ban anyone they want, could they ban a white man based on his race ? A homosexual based on sexual preference?

Any person because of their race ? People who misdirect like a traffic cop on mushrooms?
 
PJ Diaz

PJ Diaz

Well-Known Member
Roger A. Shrubber said:
private businesses are allowed to hold political opinions...there are entire stores that sell trump memorabilia...do you want to investigate every single one of them? like it or not, twitter is, and was, a privately owned company, and if they so desired, they could ban anyone they want, for any reason they want...since it is a PRIVATELY OWNED platform. they could delete any content that they decide doesn't meet their standards for publication, and there's not a single thing anyone can do about it. much like right here, on this site...if we say something offensive, it is often deleted, and associated messages with it. does rollitup deserve an investigation?
Click to expand...
Of course they can, but does that make it a good practice for politicians to make it their business to encourage private businesses to censor their customers selectively, in effort to furthers their political agendas? I'm fairly certain that if the roles were reversed and this had been Trump controlling Twitter's "content moderation", then you'd be crying all up and down the block about right-wing bias, but if it's left-wing bias it's ok because you share that same bias? Weird.
 
sunni

sunni

Administrator
Staff member
The point of the discussions in politics is you have an actual discussion we know youll have debates they need to be healthy

the nit picky back andforth that doesnt add anythin to any of the actual discussion needs to end, its starting to spread across all threads by certain people and it doesnt go anywhere cause its not an actual discussion so please stop
 
Fogdog

Fogdog

Well-Known Member
sunni said:
wow ... ouchies.


Im not nosy id rather not have to mod very dumb arguments all day long and petty drama between forum members, but people cant act like adults and just follow the rules so here we are.
Click to expand...
My apologies, Sunni. My reference to you was inappropriate. I don't have any problem with job you are doing in moderating this site. I was being sarcastic. The radical right consider the kind of moderation you provide a violation of their 1A and my comment was riffing off their pearl clutching, not what you do here.
 
rkymtnman

rkymtnman

Well-Known Member
PJ Diaz said:
Who brought up this so-called equation again?
Click to expand...
laughable that you seem to think Twitter needed to follow the demands of the biden regime in suppressing the laptop story as they are some bastion of the truth. they are a private company: they chose what they chose to do. if you don't like it, change the channel.

IIRC, the trump regime and his personal DOJ aka FBI had the laptop while he was in charge. they chose not to do anything with it.

and you know what's the funniest, matt taibbi was and still is on twitter. guess their censorship doesn't keep him up at night, huh?
 
rkymtnman

rkymtnman

Well-Known Member
Budley Doright said:
So I’m confused here. How did Biden and Dems actually suppress any thing on Twitter? Has it been proven? Also, and again I ask were these censored items actually true or were they not conspiracies and .
Click to expand...
they demanded twitter not publish the laptop story. twitter can and did do whatever the hell they wanted to.

seems like since trump and the fbi had the laptop, they should have released its' contents if they were so damning to hunter.

from what i've read about the laptop, the system files are all out of whack aka tampered with . and the chain of custody would never stand up in a court of law so it really is a nothing burger.

it's akin to all the MAGAs calling on FOX to not call the race for biden in AZ. they chose to run with it as it was the truth. they could have easily just said it's too close to call
 
Fogdog

Fogdog

Well-Known Member
buckaclark said:
Many grew up in the south,where all men and most women have guns,Even the good ones.I understand you are searching for a way to process this insane violence being thrust upon society.Maybe look at the gangs that cause the majority of the shootings and the loose morals surrounding these actions on every level.I too hope you can see some progress of mood and find a way to be happier.Cheers
Click to expand...
lulz.

You don't think toxic masculinity exists in gangs? It permeates gang and prison sub-cultures.

In my post I said outright that the prevalence of toxic masculinity in today's society explains high rates of violence in the US better than the prevalence of guns. I'm blaming the myth of the good guy with the gun too. The movie Taxi Driver was my best analogy to explain what I was saying. A little more than 40% of all households in the US own one or more guns. If it were as simple as guns are why gun homicides, then the murder rate would be much higher than it is today. The problem lies in the character of the person holding that murder machine. In all but a few people, those who own a gun have no intention of causing harm outside of self defense.
 
rkymtnman

rkymtnman

Well-Known Member
Fogdog said:
lulz.

You don't think toxic masculinity exists in gangs? It permeates gang and prison sub-cultures.

In my post I said outright that the prevalence of toxic masculinity in today's society explains high rates of violence in the US better than the prevalence of guns. I'm blaming the myth of the good guy with the gun too. The movie Taxi Driver was my best analogy to explain what I was saying. A little more than 40% of all households in the US own one or more guns. If it were as simple as guns are why gun homicides, then the murder rate would be much higher than it is today. The problem lies in the character of the person holding that murder machine. In all but a few people, those who own a gun have no intention of causing harm outside of self defense.
Click to expand...
like this wacko that shot up club q here in the springs. there couldn't have been more red flags around his behavior. and another one that "slipped" past the fbi
 
Fogdog

Fogdog

Well-Known Member

The real revelation from the ‘Twitter Files’: Content moderation is messy

Still, the Twitter Files reports show just how many of the company’s employees and teams were involved in the deliberations over difficult content decisions. According to the former Twitter executive, that was by design. “Twitter’s process was designed to make sure that the decision doesn’t come down to just one person,” they said. “The alternative is that you wait until Jack Dorsey decides he doesn’t like somebody and you take it down.”

Musk would rather just punt on the whole moderation thing. Except when he's the one being offended, such is the way "free speech" is viewed by the authoritarian right.
 
rkymtnman

rkymtnman

Well-Known Member
Fogdog said:

The real revelation from the ‘Twitter Files’: Content moderation is messy

Still, the Twitter Files reports show just how many of the company’s employees and teams were involved in the deliberations over difficult content decisions. According to the former Twitter executive, that was by design. “Twitter’s process was designed to make sure that the decision doesn’t come down to just one person,” they said. “The alternative is that you wait until Jack Dorsey decides he doesn’t like somebody and you take it down.”

Musk would rather just punt on the whole moderation thing. Except when he's the one being offended, such is the way "free speech" is viewed by the authoritarian right.
Click to expand...
i hope his 43 B ends up as the next myspace in a few months. the more i learn, the more he's just a douche.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top