Think about pre-Musk Twitter. If you strayed from the outrageous lies and saccharine platitudes about gender and race and crime and immigration by tweeting government statistics and peer-reviewed scientific studies, you got a notice from the site saying you had engaged in "hate speech" and then you got suspended or banned. So there you were, tweeting the best and most reliable data available, from unimpeachable sources, and you were essentially being called a bad person. You knew your data were accurate, and they knew your data were accurate. None of that mattered. But it's not just that data and scientific information were being suppressed, the site's algo was actively pushing the most astonishing evidence-free and easy-to-refute misinformation across the platform about topics like race and crime, and there was nothing you could do about it because if you attempted to refute any of it swarms of hall monitors would report you to Twitter's "safety" bureaucrats. Eventually, you just gave up. I did, and maybe you did, too. "Powerless" doesn't even begin to describe how a lot of us felt.
Think about pre-Musk Twitter. If you strayed from the outrageous lies and saccharine platitudes about gender and race and crime and immigration by tweeting government statistics and peer-reviewed scientific studies, you got a notice from the site saying you had engaged in "hate speech" and then you got suspended or banned. So there you were, tweeting the best and most reliable data available, from unimpeachable sources, and you were essentially being called a bad person. You knew your data were accurate, and they knew your data were accurate. None of that mattered. But it's not just that data and scientific information were being suppressed, the site's algo was actively pushing the most astonishing evidence-free and easy-to-refute misinformation across the platform about topics like race and crime, and there was nothing you could do about it because if you attempted to refute any of it swarms of hall monitors would report you to Twitter's "safety" bureaucrats. Eventually, you just gave up. I did, and maybe you did, too. "Powerless" doesn't even begin to describe how a lot of us felt.
@eyeslasho I sympathize with what you’re saying in this post, I think it’s true. I also sympathize with the criticism of Musk like in Perez’s thread, I think it’s also true.
@eyeslasho I sympathize with what you’re saying in this post, I think it’s true. I also sympathize with the criticism of Musk like in Perez’s thread, I think it’s also true.
@eyeslasho So before Musk Twitter was biased in favor of the “woke crowd” while after Musk X is biased in favor of Right Wing groups, Zionists and pornography bots. And you consider this somehow an improvement? Why?
@eyeslasho Was Steve Sailer ever banned from Twitter?
@eyeslasho I suggest people to watch this and see for yourself what people inside twitter thought about Elon joining it. It was a whole mess. It still is a mess. All the good people who made this site better and safer left.
@eyeslasho You’re welcome. Free speech is only real if people you don’t like can say things you don’t like.
I had 3 accounts pre-Musk that would get suspended and banned for the same exact posts I make today. I decided to leave until @elonmusk bought it. Then, when leftists intentionally sabotaged Elon’s ad revenue, I decided to support the platform by buying a year subscription to premium plus.