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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 01:22pm

what ever you want to tell youself

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 01:21pm

Already the goal posts have moved. Magnificent.

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 01:20pm

…you’ve said otherwise.

No.....I mentioned an extreme case that I wouldn't "mind", which is different than saying I'm for it. This is what I mean by you not arguing in good faith. As far as "gotchas" go that's pretty fucking lame.

a troll who wants nothing more than to make people suffer

Man, if someone pointing out you're wrong makes you "suffer" you've got real problems. Buckle up, buttercup

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 01:16pm

It’ll grow steadily over the course of years

Since it's active users are trending down, apparently not

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 01:14pm

Because he isn't arguing in good faith, or because he's fishing for excuses to call me a "bigot"? (both, the answer is both)

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 01:13pm

Horseshit. Very little misinformation turns out to be true. Prove me wrong. (Psst… You can’t!)

The covid vaccine has negligible effects (single digit) on transmission rates. Routinely labeled "misinformation", now proven to be true. The vaccine can cause adverse health effects. (I am not telling you this is common, it's very rare, actually, but it does occur) Routinely labeled "misinformation". See how easy that is?

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 01:07pm

Nah, I cited you facts and figures and math and you just went and called it "opinion", which transparently you didn't even understand what you were sneering at. Cited another set of figures and you just ignored it. So:

Any refusal to do so from here on out will be considered...

No, I don't owe you shit, actually. Additionally, you're being kinda transparent to find an excuse to call me some form of "bigot". I really do think "Hate speech" and "misinformation" should not be censored, however, for reasons I have already laid out, not least of which is that it these terms are subject to often purposeful misinterpretation.

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 12:59pm

No....you can have a private SM network and just choose not to censor it. (well, maybe not, ask Parler, but in theory you could) I mean these "fact checkers" on FB are hilariously wrong all the time, often just spouting liberal talking points about matters of opinion, not even refuting the comment being made, etc. There's no need for that.

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 12:36pm

either a social media network nor government

Man, you don't read so good.

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 12:13pm

Keep up, I did already. You can read, right? Mastodon daily users are trending down, already 72% of peak, making this article nonsense. I would call that "winning", yes.

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 12:09pm

Stephen, buddy, we've covered this already at length. I'll sum it up as "Misinformation" (large chunks of which turn out to be absolutely true) and "politics liberals don't agree with. And before you start, no, I really do not want either a social media network nor government trying to adjudicate what is "true" or not. Not even if they were right, but especially because they are often wrong.

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 12:05pm

Could be that most of the people who fled to Mastodon are just awful: https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/11/21/journalists-run-to-twitter-alternative-promptly-turn-it-into-a-hilarious-mean-girls-club-n662025

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 11:03am

there’s a lot of people who are completely willing to leave Twitter over Musk’s [purported] clownery.

Fixed that for you, there's a lot of butt-hurt liberals like Masnick willing to just make things up. And apparently that number is at most 2.5 million people, probably less

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 10:58am

“Because white supremacists like me get to finally be able to post without getting flagged for being total dipshits!”

There's actually the problem where you if you allow people to be censored based on saying something racist the definition of "racist" will expand as politically convenient to silence dissent. As we have seen the last 20 years or so. ...ably illustrated by your eagerness to label just anyone who disagrees with you as racist. I've never said a single racist thing here, you know that, yet here you are.

However, there’s that “network effect” happening, ie, people want to be where their friends and people they like are.

Apparently not, or active users would not be on the downslope.

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 10:49am

Please be specific rather than flippant.

I reserve the right to be flippant. But principle benefit is much reduced censorship, which previously I think was stifling to the point that it was unusable, in addition to the fact I'm philosophically against it. Being able to search for people I agree with and actually finding them having their tweets show up in my feed as requested, Trending Topics actually being what's trending rather than something politically curated, etc. Not taking orders from the fed gov is pretty great, too.

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 10:44am

I’m just gonna leave this here… Yes, it’s from the PCMag article.

Yes, and? I know you think you made a point there. Mastodon got a boost from hateful liberals like Masnick screaming "I'm leaving Twitter!", and.....that's over now.

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 10:41am

Why else would you equate being moderated to the holocaust?

It starts with the 2A, then the 1A, and then eventually they come for your life and liberty, that's why.

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 10:39am

I was unaware that Communism as a whole has become a voting bloc in ANY country of the world.

They only pretend to have a vote sometimes. But man, you're a real ray of sunshine, huh?

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 10:36am

I didn't say everyone got it from their doctor. Calling it "horse dewormer" is super dumb. It's a real medication for humans. Drugs that work on humans work on other mammals too. Referring to it by one of those other drugs is just you uneducated fucks being dumb.

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Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 10:31am

I just came back here to check that you're still cancer. Yup, you are.

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