Roseanne Barr, X and Freedom of Speech

[Foxfyre]

You would think so, but no, not really.
Not in this digital age on social media, where algorithms are at play which keep people in their "bubble of interest". Your information would not make it to their notification bar. These posts would not be pushed upwards for them to see.

This is exactly the problem.

Next to that, it's very easy to make the empty claim "vaccines cause autism!" while it takes effort to show how that's wrong and / or unsupported.
People are lazy. They'll swallow populist one liners and won't bother reading scientific studies showing otherwise.

If what you said is true and indeed so easy, then we wouldn't be having this whole fake news / misinformation problem at all.



Facts are facts. You act as if someone "decides" what the facts are. This is nonsense, and exactly one of the causes of how this is becoming a huge problem in western society. Sounds like you're one of the victims of this populist / misinformation campaign.

There is no such thing as "alternative facts".

There are just facts, period.


You say this, but the actual facts show otherwise.
X completely got rid of their fact checking moderation.
The result? The platform today is the biggest cesspool of fake news and misinformation on the internet.

As I have told others, I have a personal pet peeve about chopped up posts that destroy context and sometimes the actual intent of a person's post. It makes it almost impossible to respond to and is confusing for others to read. Thanks for understanding.

 

[SkepticThinker]

RFK Jr for starters.



If you can't even see what is so obvious , I can't help you.

How, why, where and when has he been censored?
I've somehow managed to read most of the bizarre and nonsensical claims he's made over the years, and I'd venture to say, you have too.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

You cannot have free speech without allowing people their opinion and right to be wrong. Elon Musk understands this and he understands the tyranny of a small oligarchy have authority to dictate what is and is not truth. You truth could be a dreadful lie to me and vice versa. But free speech allows both of us to speak our mind.

X believes in free speech. Most Republicans believe in free speech.
These days most on the left think THEIR speech, THEIR version of the 'truth', is the only speech that should be allowed.

Those of us who think all opinion should be allowed to be heard are free speech advocates. Nobody else is.

Musk appears to advocate for free speech only insofar as it is his voice that is amplified:

"...after Musk threatened to fire his remaining engineers, they built a system designed to ensure that Musk — and Musk alone — benefits from previously unheard-of promotion of his tweets to the entire user base."

Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first

After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm.

www.theverge.com

"Under Musk, the website now known as X has complied with such requests readily. Between October 2022 and April 2023, Twitter received 971 requests from governments and courts to suppress specific content and identify private information about anonymous accounts, according to Lumen data analyzed by Rest of World. It complied, to some degree, with 99 percent of those. The majority of these requests came from countries with restrictive speech laws, including India, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates."

Elon Musk is absolutely not a ‘free speech absolutist’

Musk has previously said X has “no choice” but to comply with these requests.

www.theverge.com

"The suspensions affected several journalists and commentators, including Texas Observer journalist Steven Monacelli, Ken Klippensten of The Intercept, podcaster Rob Rousseau, and Alan MacLeod of MintPress News. The landing page for their accounts says it’s been suspended, but does not give any explanation as to why. A message on the profiles simply states 'X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.'

The ban didn’t just hit journalists either. Several prominent-left leaning accounts were also purged from the website, including the account for the TrueAnon podcast and @zei_squirrel, a cartoon squirrel that tweets media criticism."

X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation

Ken Klippenstein, Steven Monacelli, and Alan MacLeod were all suspended from the platform.

www.vice.com

 

[Foxfyre]

Musk appears to advocate for free speech only insofar as it is his voice that is amplified:

"...after Musk threatened to fire his remaining engineers, they built a system designed to ensure that Musk — and Musk alone — benefits from previously unheard-of promotion of his tweets to the entire user base."

Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first

After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm.

www.theverge.com

"Under Musk, the website now known as X has complied with such requests readily. Between October 2022 and April 2023, Twitter received 971 requests from governments and courts to suppress specific content and identify private information about anonymous accounts, according to Lumen data analyzed by Rest of World. It complied, to some degree, with 99 percent of those. The majority of these requests came from countries with restrictive speech laws, including India, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates."

Elon Musk is absolutely not a ‘free speech absolutist’

Musk has previously said X has “no choice” but to comply with these requests.

www.theverge.com

"The suspensions affected several journalists and commentators, including Texas Observer journalist Steven Monacelli, Ken Klippensten of The Intercept, podcaster Rob Rousseau, and Alan MacLeod of MintPress News. The landing page for their accounts says it’s been suspended, but does not give any explanation as to why. A message on the profiles simply states 'X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.'

The ban didn’t just hit journalists either. Several prominent-left leaning accounts were also purged from the website, including the account for the TrueAnon podcast and @zei_squirrel, a cartoon squirrel that tweets media criticism."

X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation

Ken Klippenstein, Steven Monacelli, and Alan MacLeod were all suspended from the platform.

www.vice.com

I spend enough time on X to know that free speech is quite real there. And if Muck wants an advantage to be heard himself, he paid a lot of billions of dollars for that and he is entirely entitled.