Re:Threads, an Instagram App
by cubefox on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:48AM
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Twitter does allow much more free speech than before the acquisition.
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No, it's less safe for it because he fired all the lawyers protecting you from governmental consequences of speech.
The moderation didn't actually change either though. He just says stuff, he doesn't have time to actually monitor the implementation of it.
Some things are definitely sayable now that could easily get you blocked before.
Re:Threads, an Instagram App
by FranzFerdiNaN on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @06:35AM
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Yes, Twitter does allow you to be racist and transphobic as fuck now. What a win.
Previously things would be censored that were legitimate statistical data. Data can't be racist, but the old Twitter moderation team didn't care.
Hate to break it to you but when Professor Skullmeasurement went to an African country in 1920 and gave people IQ tests in a language they didn't speak then wrote a paper about it, that data is in fact racist.
Or more recently, Harvard's algorithms that mathematically demonstrate Asians don't have interesting personalities.