Social Twitter nullifies the "citizen journalist."

Care to elaborate? I don't use ANY social media, I only have Facebook so I can tag myself in my daughters photos and memories, but I haven't made a post on it in over 6 years.

Social media is an echo chamber filled with cancer.

Tumblr essentially banned porn so that caused all their users to leave.

This remains to be seen how it is implemented. My guess is twitter generates too much content for them to effectively police so it will just be used to justify pulling shit down when they need to protect their image as a platform. Just like the completely asymmetric "fact checking" nonsense they tried to implement.
 
Reddit creates safe spaces for left and right wing people, the way they create communities means you get circle jerks for everything. Not a fan but it's not a strictly left wing site.
Maybe you used to be able to say that but not anymore after they removed the Donald forum along with many others and updated their policies on hate speech to protect "vulnerable groups"
 
Care to elaborate? I don't use ANY social media, I only have Facebook so I can tag myself in my daughters photos and memories, but I haven't made a post on it in over 6 years.

Social media is an echo chamber filled with cancer.

Tumblr ended up primarily being used for porn, tumblr decided to eliminate all of it and they lost a lot of users and revenue. My underlyimg point was making a large change nobody wants ends up in disaster.
 
Twitter is on borrowed time, IMO, as is all social media. It's reached a crescendo now, and more and more people are walking away from it. Once government starts taking full charge and full-blown censorship is implemented (IE - No criticism of the The Party is allowed), even the younger Lefties who make up the bulk of the hardcore users nowadays will see the folly of it all. It'll go underground, probably on the deep web, and the government will then go after that too.
I don’t think the genie is going back in the bottle ever, but for sure a specific platform could tank very quickly. I think YouTube is ripe for a major competitor as well.

Part of this problem lies in Washington. The politicians do not like the power tech companies and people using technology have, and pretty effectively scared the social media guys in 2018. Pretty easy to do too, because even though these guys have had a huge impact of the world, a lot of it is being early to market and they fear their own creations.
 
Twitter also just banned Memes..

Oh no someone had a Meme of Joe Biden. "Banned on Twitter for spreading misinformation"
Well, here's a non-meme but memeish photo for the road, although technically it would be allowed due to being from the AP:
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I would personally prefer a government run social media site, paid for with tax dollars, run with the first amendment and requiring people sign up with their real name. It is a public square, so make it a public square.

We already have the worst of all worlds. Corporate censorship, weakness against bad actors, and it is all surrendered to the government anyway.
 
...photos and videos are the story; not the words.

They want the "mainstream media" to control information.

KR would've be convicted without the videos

Twitter Bans Sharing Photos, Videos ‘Without Consent’ on CEO Parag Agrawal’s First Day

Just one day after Jack Dorsey was replaced as the CEO of Twitter by the company’s former CTO, Parag Agrawal, the platform has banned the sharing of any images or videos of people without their explicit consent. The far-left company stated: “The misuse of private media can affect everyone, but can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021...hout-consent-on-ceo-parag-agrawals-first-day/


this guy is such a piece of fucking shit. if people do not believe in freedom of speech they should not be allowed to move to this country

 
Tumblr ended up primarily being used for porn, tumblr decided to eliminate all of it and they lost a lot of users and revenue. My underlyimg point was making a large change nobody wants ends up in disaster.
This is going to happen twitter. Twitter will get rid of most of content they deem problematic. Will they going after some accounts who had being "Protesting" for the last 4 years? problary not.
 
I quit twatter when I got a temporary ban for calling a trans woman a cunt for saying that every cop should be drug into the streets and fitted like the pigs they are
 
This is a bad development.
Everything internet related has been a bad development since circa 2010

It’s funny I thought Twitter and such was just bad for people by making people copy vapid idiots like the Kardashians. Somehow it’s far worse than what I ever thought
 
Twitter has been one big SJW circle jerk for years. Looking back I'm glad my account got banned 6 years ago and I did not return.
 
I’ve never used any social media besides Sherdog, and I never will.
 
So Twitter is saying they would take down and ban the user sharing the video of the George Floyd incident?

That doesn’t sound like a good way to get progress
No, only on paper. In reality it will be like the longer version of the Nick Sandman video they ban. They'll allow the chopped up media clip that claims he was harassing a poor indian man, and ban the full version that shows that the kids were the ones being harassed.
 
It just says "without their consent", couldn't this apply to mainstream media as well? Like cnn sharing a video of George Floyd getting killed? Who's consent do they need? Chauvin, all the cops, and bystanders as well? What if just one person doesn't consent?
why dont they get rid of the whole platform?

if your shit on twitter, it's not private
 
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