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• On the post: Getting Kicked Off Social Media For Breaking Its Rules Is Nothing Like Being Sent To A Prison Camp For Retweeting Criticism Of A Dictator

  

  JMT ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2023 @ 09:48pm

  Cool, cool, liking free speech is…..**checks notes*……a sign of institutionalized racism.

  Liking free speech is very different to being an absolutist. There is nobody here who doesn't like free speech a lot, we're literally doing it! But you claim you want absolutely no limits on speech, no matter how harmful, hurtful, damaging or dangerous. That's what absolutism means. That's psychopathy. I don't think you're an actual absolutist, I think you just like to talk a big game online because you have probably never experienced the harm that others' free speech can cause.

  ...you don’t get to invalidate other’s opinions by calling them racist.

  To be clear, I don't think you're an "I hate them blacks!" kind of racist, I just think you have no fucking clue what's it's like to live in a world where you're not at the top go the socio-economic pecking order and have little understanding of other people's lived experiences.

• On the post: Getting Kicked Off Social Media For Breaking Its Rules Is Nothing Like Being Sent To A Prison Camp For Retweeting Criticism Of A Dictator

  

  JMT ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2023 @ 09:04pm

  You can dream up whatever reasons for that you want, but what you can’t say is that proportionately more people of that race are put in jail for murder due to racism.

  Why don't you tell us, really clearly, what you think the reasons are for that statistic.

• On the post: Getting Kicked Off Social Media For Breaking Its Rules Is Nothing Like Being Sent To A Prison Camp For Retweeting Criticism Of A Dictator

  

  JMT ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2023 @ 04:35pm

  ...just like the censorship of school libraries in Florida is wrong despite the fact that it is in support of stopping the evils of woke gender ideology and critical race theory.

  Well there's two stamps on my Brainwashed Conservative Talking Points Bingo card. It's funny how you get so upset about the term "Nazi" being used colloquially (i.e. I'm sure you're not actually a card-carrying member of a Nazi party) but you think you can take the term "woke" and the college-level legal course named CRT, distort them well beyond original meanings, and apply them to anything you hate (another of your faves), due mainly to gross ignorance and bigotry.

• On the post: Getting Kicked Off Social Media For Breaking Its Rules Is Nothing Like Being Sent To A Prison Camp For Retweeting Criticism Of A Dictator

  

  JMT ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2023 @ 03:54pm

  More gaslighting is not much of a rebuttal.

  Neither is saying "you're lying" over and over again with nothing to back it up.

• On the post: Getting Kicked Off Social Media For Breaking Its Rules Is Nothing Like Being Sent To A Prison Camp For Retweeting Criticism Of A Dictator

  

  JMT ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2023 @ 03:53pm

  Of course money is a factor, that's what I mean by complicated, deep-rooted, systemic reasons. Crime and poverty are inextricably linked.

• On the post: Getting Kicked Off Social Media For Breaking Its Rules Is Nothing Like Being Sent To A Prison Camp For Retweeting Criticism Of A Dictator

  

  JMT ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2023 @ 03:49pm

  ...as a public platform is not a home.

  Jeebers, the stupidity, it hurts! Referring to any social media platform as a "public platform" is right up there with sovereign citizens and bleach injection. It puts you right back into Poe's Law contention.

• On the post: Getting Kicked Off Social Media For Breaking Its Rules Is Nothing Like Being Sent To A Prison Camp For Retweeting Criticism Of A Dictator

  

  JMT ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2023 @ 03:42pm

  I am. (though I prefer “absolutist”)

  The only people I've ever seen claiming to be free speech absolutists are those who've never really suffered due to the speech of others. In that respect you are obviously an extremely lucky and privileged person, as am I. But you're clearly also someone with absolutely zero empathy for those whose lived experiences are not as easy as yours, people who've had to suffer the speech of others because they are a different color, gender, culture, religion, whatever. In simpler terms, you're a selfish asshole.

• On the post: Getting Kicked Off Social Media For Breaking Its Rules Is Nothing Like Being Sent To A Prison Camp For Retweeting Criticism Of A Dictator

  

  JMT ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2023 @ 03:23pm

  "Millions" is clearly hyperbolic exaggeration, but POC are grossly over-represented in the prison population, and unless you're* going to claim this is because they are... predisposed to criminality, then there must be other more complicated, deep-rooted, systemic reasons, which tend to eventually boil down to not being white. *The royal 'you', not you personally. ;)

• On the post: What Transparency? Twitter Seems To Have Forgotten About Transparency Reporting

  

  JMT ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2023 @ 03:12pm

  “Musk is a hypocrite and big bad stinky face because he says ‘transparency’ and then doesn’t do it exactly the way I think he should!!!”

  I'm pretty sure most people would agree that "the way I think he should" do transparency would at least include the literal transparency report that Twitter has been doing for years.

  You’re usually making up shit to whine about Musk over but this is more made up than most of them.

  What exactly are you claiming is made up here? Have Twitter released a recent transparency report or not?

• On the post: After Introducing Caps And Raising Prices, Starlink Introduces $200 Global Roaming Charge

  

  JMT ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2023 @ 02:25pm

  Of course you’re shilling for fiber networks. All of you journalists are thoroughly in the pocket of Big Fiber and it shows.

  If you think any Techdirt contributor is a shill for internet providers you must be completely unfamiliar with the scores of articles on the topic.

  Starlink will replace fiber and it will replace regular broadband.

  Even ignoring Starlink's antics, a fibre connection will always be better than a satellite connection simply due to the physics of transmission distance. Satellite internet supplements fibre, it does not replace it.

• On the post: New York Court Says Fox, Rudy Giuliani Can’t Escape Defamation Lawsuit Over BS Stolen Election Claims

  

  JMT ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2023 @ 02:00pm

  It's a slightly hyperbolic claim, but it's objectively not untrue. There are hundreds of videos online showing Trump supporters making factual claims that are complete nonsense, either from ignorance, gullibility, partisan malice, or a combination of all. You're damn right I feel superior to those particular people.

• On the post: Meta Following Elon Down The Road Of Making Verification An Upsell Is A Terrible Idea

  

  JMT ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2023 @ 05:47pm

  But still subscription can work cuz at least then you’re the customer not the product...

  I don't see anything in the feature list about being free from advertising. Unless there are no ads, you're still the product.

  This isn’t a story about Musk, at all, and yet you still have to make it about Musk...

  You're right, it's not about Musk, it's about another company doing the same dumb thing Twitter did. Sometimes topics or subjects overlap. It's not a complicated idea to grasp.

• On the post: Engineers Gave Elon’s Tweets Special Treatment Because Elon Freaked Out That A Joe Biden Tweet Got More Engagement

  

  JMT ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2023 @ 01:10pm

  Children are offered puberty blockers and transition with only the most cursory evaluation...

  This is just straight-up BS. You have absolutely no evidence to back this up, and no, the incessant barking of anti-trans bigots does not constitute evidence.

  I don’t care if what I’m saying hurts the feeling of people...

  "I'm an asshole with zero empathy".

  Trans people are delusional...

  "I'm an ignorant bigot with zero ability to understand other people's experiences can be quite different to mine".

  The “fear and hate” being spread is because of woke ideologues...

  The fear and hate is being spread by you and other transphobes. You can try to blame other people people for the vile nonsense you spew, but it's coming from you, not trans people and their supporters.

  Woke ideologues hate true freedom.

  Damn, that's gotta be a record. Four words in a five-word sentence that you clearly don't know the meaning of. (Well, I assume you know what "true" means.)

• On the post: A Look Into What Advertisers Elon’s Twitter Has In Its Future

  

  JMT ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 06:22pm

  Just need courts to recognize what is actually written rather than being judicial activist.

  "I'm much smarter than ALL the judges!"

• On the post: Engineers Gave Elon’s Tweets Special Treatment Because Elon Freaked Out That A Joe Biden Tweet Got More Engagement

  

  JMT ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 04:48pm

  It means well-intentioned but grievously wrong.

  Wrong about what exactly? No coded language, be really specific.

• On the post: Engineers Gave Elon’s Tweets Special Treatment Because Elon Freaked Out That A Joe Biden Tweet Got More Engagement

  

  JMT ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 04:46pm

  You woke ideologues...

  "I don't understand the argument so I'll just yell this out over and over!!!"

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  JMT ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 04:26pm

  The sounds exactly like someone who's run out of argument.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  JMT ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 04:24pm

  This is common knowledge to almost everyone else...

  So why can't you post a few links to credible sources? Common knowledge shouldn't be hard to find.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  JMT ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 04:22pm

  Yeah, they’re without issue, blah, blah, blah....

  That's quite possibly the worst defense of these systems I've ever read, but hey, don't take my word for it... https://www.reuters.com/legal/exclusive-tesla-faces-us-criminal-probe-over-self-driving-claims-sources-2022-10-26/

  Pretending this is a big deal is the epitome of “pearl-clutching” and here’s a definition so you can STFU next time you want to correct someone on something you don’t understand yourself:

  a very shocked reaction, especially one in which you show more shock than you really feel in order to show that you think something is morally wrong I understand it fine thanks, seems like you really don't. Nobody is particularly "shocked" Musk has done this, it's actually pretty on-brand. Neither have I seen anyone claiming it's "morally wrong". Pearl-clutching is not the correct term to describe expressing how monumentally pathetic and hypocritical something is.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  JMT ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 07:01pm

  In the grand scheme of things I wouldn't call it major and consequential, just annoying and unbelievably stupid. It's like he's actively trying to bust his own genius myth.

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