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Re:Research Twitter – where everybody knows your name by southernplaces7 on Monday June 26, 2023 @01:06AM (#36475928)
What absurd hyperbole. Twitter is still firmly loaded with all sorts of left-leaning, progressive, woke and extreme left viewpoints, just as it also now has an uptick in their opposites. This is a good thing, because it promotes a plurality of opinions, even if some on both sides are extreme.

I hardly see a dearth of "fighting from within" and don't quite know what you'd mean by "victory"? Would this be a platform in which all views that contradict your own are stamped out perhaps? If so, then the problem might not be ownership by someone like Musk, but your own intolerance towards divergence of opinion.

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Re:Research Twitter – where everybody knows your name by DoItToMe81 on Monday June 26, 2023 @02:02AM (#36476230)
People are mad that a moderation team that they feel was stacked in their favor was removed, instead of being mad that a private company is used to frame what is acceptable to believe for several hundred million people. It's absurd.
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Re:Research Twitter – where everybody knows your name by a_bonobo on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:09AM (#36477774)
It's not hyperbole.

>According to data collected by researchers from USC, UCLA, UC Merced and Oregon State University, daily use of hate speech by those who previously posted hateful tweets nearly doubled after Musk finalized the sale. And the overall volume of hate speech also doubled sitewide.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-04-27...

(and by 'victory' - that's a quote from OP's text, 'should we remain and fight from within?')

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