Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Jul 3, 2023
The rate limiting incident in Twitter isn't really what pushed me over to use Mastodon more and more. Currently there is a hashtag on Twitter related to the French riots that's calling on the expulsion of all Muslim, African, and Arab immigrants from the entirety of Europe. The trending hashtag (at #2) is filled with images encouraging mass killings and lynchings of Arabs. There is no come back from this.
Show threadSerhat Tutkal

@heidykhlaaf Things have gotten worse with Musk, but they have been pretty bad long before him. I have an article about the images of mutilated dead bodies of #Kurdish guerrilla militants on #Twitter and the dehumanizing comments made to these photos in 2015. Most of these tweets still existed last time I checked, which was in 2023.

Also sharing the article in case someone is interested in the findings: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1750635220925844

Jul 3, 2023 at 3:13pmWeb
Show threadJürgen HubertJul 4, 2023

@SerhatTutkal @heidykhlaaf Before Musk, moderation was often uncaring.

Now, it is actively malevolent.

Show threadSerhat TutkalJul 4, 2023
@juergen_hubert @heidykhlaaf I would say that it was still malevolent in authoritarian countries like #Turkey and #India where Twitter was actively censoring and criminalizing the opposition (Facebook was also doing the same). They were using the excuse of legal obligations in these countries. Now, they do the same thing in all countries and without the excuse of legal obligations. I agree that it is a lot worse than how it was, but it has been particularly bad in Turkey for a long time.