Re:The number pi has an evil twin
by rsynnott on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:03AM
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It’s a metaphor (ironically originating _on_ Twitter, not _about_ Twitter, pre-Musk); essentially, once you allow Nazis in a bar, they metastasize, and pretty soon you’re a Nazi bar. It’s perfectly applicable to the current state of twitter.
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I absolutely agree, a dead 1920's German nationalist movement is exactly why we shouldn't allow free speech online.
Twitter already contained a lot of hateful speech before Elon acquired it.
Re:The number pi has an evil twin
by lern_too_spel on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @12:30PM
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Those tweets would typically be demoted instead of promoted.
It's not at all applicable. Makes me wonder if you even use Twitter if you're making claims like that. More likely you're just parroting nonsense from your echo chamber.
Re:The number pi has an evil twin
by nuancebydefault on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @09:58AM
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Nobody uses twitter these days.
What a daft claim to make. A simple web search would have informed you that Twitter has over half a billion monthly active users.
Re:The number pi has an evil twin
by nuancebydefault on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @11:53AM
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Hmm you mean X right?
Same thing.
I was a Twitter user from 2007 to late 2022. That idiot wasted no time in ruining it; by Dec 2022 it was very clearly time to go.
what metaphor was it called back when they allowed far-left hate speech but censored, shadow-banned or otherwise slowed stories that their secret thought-control departments didn't like? what would you call that?