There's satisfaction in watching Elon Musk as a person who has been trying to explain how the right is *different* to people who still want to waffle and "both sides" the political environment in the US.
People who come from the left and the center AGONIZE over moderation decisions, going back and forth endlessly over the trade offs between freedom of expression vs the chilling effect of racist or harassing speech.
People on the right DO NOT GIVE A SHIT. They don't even pretend.
Try commenting on a right wing website:
Racism, conspiracy theories, even advocating violence, all allowed. Mild criticism from the left? Banned.
But their people will come over to a place like Slate,and when they're banned for calling our LGBTQ commenters pedophiles they SCREAM that we're suppressing right wing opinion and against free speech.
They don't care. They don't even believe any of it themselves. It's all bullshit. Musk is like every moderator I've ever seen from that side.
Watch what the right says about Musk. I already know: The left did it first, he's just doing the same thing to the left that Twitter commies did to the right.
But it's demonstrably false! Twitter pre-Musk was hostage to bad faith claims of bias, unable to act against accounts that openly flaunted their rules because they were so afraid of the bad faith crtiques.
Musk bans anyone who criticizes him, not even bothering to have policies or enforce them. He doesn't care and neither does the right.
@e_urq I genuinely hate this "whataboutism" which everyone uses. I've seen it a lot in covering stuff about #China's #CommunistParty #CCP.
For some reason, it's always "X did it first" or "What about X".
It's like everyone's in a race to the bottom. Surely the right way to think about it is "We screwed up, and we'll do better regardless of what X has done / is doing". But nope, it's always back to whataboutism.
@NatSec_MTB_Beer @e_urq It's just also such a nonsensical response.
"Stop committing genocide on the Uyghurs."
"But what about the Americans killing innocent people in the middle east?"
How does that even make sense in terms of a logical conversation?
@e_urq agree.
Old Twitter: break a min rule get a timeout.. Delete the tweet. You are back.
Elon Twitter: he wanted to Permaban journalist for covering his story
So he "claims" they broke a rule. One that just became a rule 24 earlier.
His poll shows that most people don't fall into the trap.
But read hard right cons circles. They will claim that "the rules were clear".
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