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Ordinarily I would agree, but Stephen King is a no holds barred shitbait poster. Not that there is anything inherently reprehensible about that, but then leaving for toxicity just seems self-unaware.

ImJamal

a year ago

I wasn't criticized for anything. I don't have a Twitter account and only view posts when somebody links it or send it to me.

spacedcowboy

a year ago

Twitter has been a cesspool ever since Musk bought it. It wasn’t great before, but now - yeesh.

Looks like he’s not the only one, the Grauniad newspaper announced [1] they’re leaving too a couple of days ago, because (wait for it) it’s toxic as hell.

‘The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse.’

You might say: “X is right at the center of all things toxic”

1: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardi...

ImJamal

a year ago

My point is that Stephen King is partially responsible for the increase in toxicity. Instead of being the change he wanted to see, he just made the platform worse in the exact way he was complaining about.

He comes off as a hypocrite and it isn't a good look for him. If you think toxicity is bad and is ruining the platform then don't be toxic.

tim333

a year ago

I didn't think he was so bad though I guess toxicity is in the eye of the beholder. He mostly slagged Trump / the republican party.

ImJamal

a year ago

So being toxic against Trump doesn't count as being toxic? If you like that sort of argument then I guess you could say Trump's twitter statements were not bad since he mostly slagged people who opposed him / the democratic party.

tim333

a year ago

I figure leading political figures are fair game to criticize.

ImJamal

a year ago

Nobody is denying that it isn't "fair game". The problem is that it wasn't just run of the mill criticism, he was being toxic. Some of his posts were just profanity ridden rants. If this was a guy criticizing the democratic party or Obama or whoever you would think he was some delusional right wing nut job.

dyauspitr

a year ago

What’s preventing Bluesky from eventually getting all the same trolls and being just as toxic?

rsynnott

a year ago

It has better moderation tools; it will likely get all the same trolls, but you won't have to look at them if you don't want to. In particular, mass-blocking is a first-class feature (it never was on Twitter, and then Musk's API and other changes broke it almost completely).

krapp

a year ago

Nothing, they're already showing up just to own the libs.

SR2Z

a year ago

The fact that it's not run by a "free speech absolutist" who actually just wants to see more conservative attacks on liberals on the platform.

lazyeye

a year ago

Or to rephrase "who wants to see the platform not limited to attacks on conservatives only"

hn_acker

a year ago

What kind of platform are you talking about? Not pre-Elon Musk Twitter, I hope [1].

> We have, of course, discussed all this before, but now the Washington Post got its hands on a video recording of an internal Twitter meeting right before the January 6th attack on the Capitol, in which they discussed how to handle the growing calls for violence.

> Nothing in the video is surprising, as it all confirms what’s been said before, but it does provide more evidence. The video, and testimony from some people involved in this and related meetings, were part of why the January 6th Committee highlighted just how far Twitter staff bent over backwards to protect Trump and conservatives on the platform.

> And, it’s confirming what a former Twitter trust & safety employee testified under oath, about how when they saw a tweet by Donald Trump that clearly violated the site’s policies, the decision Twitter’s leadership made was to rewrite the rules to effectively exempt Trump’s tweet.

> That’s not even getting into the many studies, both internal and external to Twitter, that showed no evidence of anti-conservative bias in Twitter’s moderation policies. In fact, Twitter’s own research showed that it favored conservative tweets, with its algorithm promoting them more than non-conservative tweets.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/internal-twitter-video-r...

dyauspitr

a year ago

They’re actively censoring liberals. First amendment rights my ass.

lazyeye

a year ago

I would be interested to see the evidence that liberals are being censored *MORE* than Republicans. No doubt many people of all political stripes are being kicked off or censored on the platform for a variety of reasons. And the left-wing media will be amplifying things when it's happening to liberals.

iancmceachern

a year ago

I think that we should all put this nonsense down and:

Just

Outside

user

a year ago

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