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Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by dmix on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @09:10AM (#33095085)
People want to control what other people are being exposed to. They don't care that it's entirely opt-in who you follow.

They say the only want to ban Q, Alex Jones, and conspiracy types but then you look at sites like Reddit who have adopted this moderation heavy approach and it's slowly becoming one giant mono-culture where the set of bannable wrongthink only ever grows larger. It's highly selectively enforced and usually does little to stop people from actually having opinions they don't like.

It's based on an ideology that treats people like sheep who can be fooled by selectively showing them information and guide them towards holding the same opinions as they do. And they want unaccountable tech companies to be the ones with this power.

Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing by inawarminister on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:48AM (#33106049)
>It's based on an ideology that treats people like sheep who can be fooled by selectively showing them information and guide them towards holding the same opinions as they do.

Well, marketing empirically proves this to be true...