Alex WildDec 1, 2022

Musk owns Twitter. It’s his now, and he can ban or promote anyone he wants.

He is currently banning people for calling him a “jerk” on offsite blogs (true story).

He is verifying actual Nazis with handles like “Day of the Ropes”, which promote literal genocide (also true).

It’s his right.

It is your right to decide if you want to support genocidal incitement by giving Musk and his Nazi friends your free labor, your free art, and your eyeballs.

Should be an easy decision. Right? Right!?

Show threadDavid Crosbie
@alexwild but, if all the sane people leave and stop fighting and telling the real stories, then it just becomes an echo chamber for hate, mistruths and right wing propaganda. It worries me.
Dec 1, 2022 at 8:20pmWeb
Show threadAlex WildDec 1, 2022

@shrink1061 doesn’t matter. It’s his house. Anyone who becomes remotely effective in “the fight” will just be be buried by Musk’s algorithms, or just banned. Or handed over to law enforcement. It’s not a fair fight, or even close.

Instead, we have a unique opportunity to make a billionaire fascist lose tens of billions of dollars in a shockingly short amount of time. That’s an easy win we should take.

Show threadDavid CrosbieDec 1, 2022
@alexwild yeah I got blocked last week after musk banned the writer of cyanide and happiness, that I’d be happy if he took some cyanide. I had to delete the post and then sit out a two day ban! Any free speech you like, as long as it doesn’t affect him.
Show threadCleo of Topless TopicsDec 2, 2022
@shrink1061
OMG I love that he got banned! Makes me love the C&H guy even more!
@alexwild
Show threadJoelCurzonDec 2, 2022
@toplesstopics @shrink1061 @alexwild C&H looks like it’s still up and running on Twitter.
Show threadCleo of Topless TopicsDec 2, 2022
@JoelCurzon
OH looks like he's famous enough that he got the suspension lifted. I revoke my endorsement of awesomeness. https://mobile.twitter.com/Explosm/status/1596202033626882049
@shrink1061 @alexwild
Cyanide & Happiness on Twitter

“UPDATE: the ban was reversed, please don't follow Rob anywhere else. He doesn't deserve it. He sucks at Instagram because he is 36 years old. -Johnny F.”

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Show threadkim ✨Dec 2, 2022
@shrink1061 @alexwild staying there “to fight” just gives him active users, content, engagement and eyeballs on ads. let it and him rot in the pit he’s created.
Show threadLīgaDec 2, 2022
@shrink1061 @alexwild
Tbh people block right-wingers and neo Nazis. So who would they be convincing?
Show threadAlaricDec 2, 2022
@shrink1061 @alexwild it’s better if they spend their energy creating an alternative ‘town square’ rather than trying to reclaim that one imo
Show threadCleo of Topless TopicsDec 2, 2022
@shrink1061
It's already an echo chamber. It's been an echo chamber even before Musk.
@alexwild
Show threaddragonfrogDec 2, 2022
@shrink1061 @alexwild and when that happens it withers away. How much influence does Gab or Truth Social or Parler have on national discourse? How much advertising revenue do they take in?
Show threadRotfarmDec 2, 2022
@shrink1061 @alexwild ther are so many more important places to do this...like the real world in real space, with people you care about, your family, your friends, your neighbors.
Show threadRotfarmDec 2, 2022
@shrink1061 @alexwild and you being at your best and doing it with care is how people are more likely to change their hearts and minds.
Show threadMr JonDec 2, 2022
@shrink1061 @alexwild The survival of Twitter depends entirely on advertising dollars. No eyeballs to put ads in front of means no advertising dollars. Let them try to survive off of male enhancement drug and ammo ads alone.
Show threaddaskeitDec 2, 2022

@shrink1061 @alexwild that’s what Gab and Truth Social already are. How relevant are they?

Musk and all the fash mob want the sane people to stay on Twitter to keep it afloat, to legitimise them, and to keep an audience around while they air their propaganda and radicalise more people / normalise what they’re saying.

Show threadMike the Mad BiologistDec 2, 2022
@daskeit @shrink1061 @alexwild I think the danger is Twitter gets ‘Newsweek-ed’ and that people won’t realize it’s becoming a cesspool https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2022/11/28/the-newsweek-ifcation-of-twitter/
The ‘Newsweek-ifcation’ of Twitter

I have no idea what will become of Twitter or how I will be using it. Elongated Muskrat’s embrace of noxious conspiracism and bigotry* is making it harder for me to use it; on the other hand,…

Mike the Mad Biologist