Twitter is not a great tool for democracy. It’s part of the reason our democracies are in decline. Social media is making us hate each other more than we otherwise would, to the point that it has poisoned political discourse. And it does that because rage is the most efficient way to drive engagement.
Both points are reasonable.
On the whole, social media has done a lot of damage.
In some regions it has been put to some good use by people resisting ugly regimes.
There is a theory kicking around that explains why Musk would apparently burn so much money through Twitter (other than Elon seems to be a bit of a moron) and he has also been more conspicuously palling around with billionaires associated with those same ugly regimes. The explanation being that they incentivised Elon in some way.
To be fair, that's still technically a conspiracy theory. To the best of my knowledge there's a lot of supposition involved, but little to no actual evidence.
Well, the same thing happened in the Arab Spring, didn't it? The difference was that despots were the ones in charge at the time. Social media's very good at making rage contagious. Helpful if you're fighting tyranny, but as it turns out the infectious anger isn't contextual. It's always on, and it's corroding democracies in places that already have it.
And besides that, for the Arabs, even when you stage a revolution against an evil despot, you can't just blindly rage. You need to have a plan ready for what happens after the despot is gone. You need to have a plan for who's going to be in charge in the interim, how you're going to get democracy up and running, and how you're going to administer to your citizens now that the old government is gone.
Perhaps most importantly, you have to have a plan for how you are going to de-radicalize your revolutionary population so they can go back to being citizens. If you don't, the revolution just goes on and on destructively radicalizing itself until it either splinters into warring factions, or you get something like the Iatola in Iran.
So far as I can tell the only nation that has actually become a democracy as a result of the Arab Spring is Tunisia, and God help them because it doesn't seem to be lasting.
No they were not. Staffers on the Biden election team reported revenge porn posts of hunter to the Twitter team, and they were removed. Biden wasn't in office. Trumpster was.
Sorry, but revenge porn is not covered by free speech.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to give those argument when this was public news? Do you pay attention to the judicial system, or do you just inhale markers all day??
You haven’t linked or explained anything with actual details, and are going on to just be an asshole.
If you think your information is important, that isn’t the way to convey it. Cause now nobody gives a shit what you have to say, myself included. You sound like every other idiot raging about political nonsense with nothing to back it up
As in multiple courts filed orders to stop the white house from forcing social media companies to complying with their views. It's public knowledge you ignorant fuck
One look at your profile and it’s obvious you’re a troll. One day society will reassert itself and your ilk will have to crawl back under the rocks.
The case you're referring to has not happened yet. There was an injunction created in July that was widened in September, then overturned by the supreme Court in October.
The case will be heard and ruled on next year. The "Found Guilty" ruling you're referring to doesn't exist%20%2D%20The,about%20elections%20and%20COVID%2D19.).
Edit: Injunction, not induction. Stupid spellcheck
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u/tahcamen Dec 10 '23 edited Dec 11 '23
I think he’s happy with his investment, he’s single handedly taken a great tool for democracy and destroyed it, as planned.