Elon’s Censorial Lawsuit Against Media Matters Is Inspiring Many More People To Find ExTwitter Ads On Awful Content
And boy, are they ever.
We’ve already discussed the extremely censorial nature of ExTwitter’s lawsuit against Media Matters for accurately describing ads from major brands that appeared next to explicitly neoNazi content.…
New essay: on the expanding margins of permission, the instinctive urge to rehabilitate bullies before they’ve done anything rehabilitative, and the all-too-common belief that opposition to hatred is a scarce commodity to be saved only for the most dire emergencies, rather than a muscle to be exercised to maintain overall health.
armoxon.substack.com/p/hatred-launderers
Found out in the wild:
Edit: Thanks to @samloonie for finding the source
It’s been clear to me for months that the fediverse has a PR problem. We know the press developed an uninformed and rather snide attitude toward Mastodon/Fediverse early on during the Twitter migration, and copped an attitude that’s unlikely to be shed without an intervention. But they ran with that narrative because there wasn’t one already made for them when the migration washed ashore.
I think we need a new mission to position decentralized social networking (#dsn) in our quite … 1/4
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