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  • On the post: Twitter Abruptly Stops Reporting On Gov’t Requests As Data Reveals Elon Obeys Gov’t Demands Way More Often Than Old Twitter

    Spunjji ( profile ), 03 May, 2023 @ 12:24am

    You know that when you describe centre-right and right-wing countries like France, South Korea and freaking Japan as "pretty liberal" you're just how far-right you (and by proxy Elmo) area, right? You can't even bring yourself to directly address what India really is (no "semi" about its fascism), and you totally whiff on how they and Russia have every reason to love Musk right now. The only thing getting drowned here is your ad-hoc hypothesis. After that it's just deflection and fart-noise city; just thought it was funny to point out to you how much you tell on yourself (and Elmo!) every time you do this.

  • On the post: Twitter Abruptly Stops Reporting On Gov’t Requests As Data Reveals Elon Obeys Gov’t Demands Way More Often Than Old Twitter

    Spunjji ( profile ), 03 May, 2023 @ 12:16am

    Why would anyone assume he's telling the truth, when his track record re: Twitter is to stack falsehoods on top of misrepresentation? You might also notice that most of what's recorded here isn't the US government. He is still complying with more requests from authoritarian regimes outside the US...

  • On the post: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options

    Spunjji ( profile ), 01 May, 2023 @ 05:00am

    If you love Twitter so much...

    Why do all the folks who proclaim to love Twitter so much spend so much time elsewhere bellowing incoherently at smarter people? I guess it has something to do with them being dumb enough to take the "Twitter Files" bait. Mmm-mmm, delicious nothingburger served up with hill of beans as a side, washed down with a storm in a teacup.

  • On the post: Missouri Nukes Its ‘Tell Us If You’ve Seen A Trans’ Reporting Form After It’s Swarmed With ‘Bee Movie’ Scripts

    Spunjji ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2023 @ 06:49am

    ESAD

    I encourage you to consume faeces and, in the due passage of time, expire.

  • On the post: Elon Seems To Think The Cruelest Thing He Can Do To People… Is To Pretend They Want To Associate With Him

    Spunjji ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2023 @ 01:12pm

    A little of column A...

    It's also that he's wrong, and either tragically misreading or wilfully misrepresenting what Mike is saying. Kinda hard to mix up "has" and "never had", along with assuming "valuable" only has one meaning even though Mike clearly uses it in two different senses in the same paragraph when he both says it was never valuable and has been devalued. That and the tone tips it over into high likelihood of trolling, along with stuff like the insistence that a troll would never stick around and argue their point of view (it's literally all they do).

  • On the post: Elon Seems To Think The Cruelest Thing He Can Do To People… Is To Pretend They Want To Associate With Him

    Spunjji ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2023 @ 01:02pm

    And I quote

    Your second post: "No, I wasn’t trolling, but I suspected I’d get a stupid fucking answer like yours" It wasn't a stupid answer, fucking or otherwise. I've only just posted further up outlining what I think the value was to a user, and why I think many people would find that obvious. You do seem to be tying "value" to "monetary benefit" which is arguably intangible, but lots of organisations used Twitter for a reason - not just for shits and giggles - so clearly they saw some value in it. There's no way that perceived value (whatever it was to them) wouldn't be enhanced by their audience not having to check to see if some troll had decided to impersonate them for a day.

  • On the post: Elon Seems To Think The Cruelest Thing He Can Do To People… Is To Pretend They Want To Associate With Him

    Spunjji ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2023 @ 12:55pm

    Value

    The value of a blue check to an individual with a blue check seems pretty clear to me: they don't have to prove who they are. The check's right there. They tweet, people see it's the real deal, done. I know a few people who were trying to get verified for that specific reason. To them, it would have been a great help. The system was flawed (it seemed largely arbitrary) but there absolutely was a value of a blue check to the owner of the account in receipt of it that has now been annihilated, along with any and all other values it held (to the community, to Twitter, etc.). It's now slightly worse than worthless. If I may - I think a lot of people may (rightly or wrongly) think that's quite obvious, and in combination with the tone of some of your posts, may have assumed you were trolling from a pro-Musk position. The impossibility of knowing who you are wouldn't help, there.

  • On the post: Bluesky Plans Decentralized Composable Moderation

    Spunjji ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2023 @ 07:41am

    "yet you want a system that makes it hard to hold conversations to bring people around in their views" Explain? Seems like he wants a system that makes it difficult for bullshit merchants to manipulate a feed to get their wares forcibly injected into the eyeballs of rubes, as per YouTube and Facebook's algorithms. You seem really keen to make this about restricting people from speech "they would like if they saw it", and part of the problem with that view is that if we're going off what people like, most people don't really like free speech at all - and yet we accept that it's a social good, so we try to protect it. A lot of people really like some really objectively bad stuff, like pogroms. They're super popular across societies and time periods. Why are you so averse to the idea of discussing disinformation and misinformation as social harms, instead preferring to refer to them as just a form of speech that some people enjoy, like a kind of intellectual junk food? It's a busted analogy and it kind of makes you look like you're not so much advocating for speech in general, as speech that you know sucks ass but serves a purpose for you and yours.

  • On the post: Bluesky Plans Decentralized Composable Moderation

    Spunjji ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2023 @ 07:31am

    This has, indeed, been happening. I keep seeing transphobic twerps pop up in replies to people I follow. They have a pathological need for other people to smell their farts.

  • On the post: Bluesky Plans Decentralized Composable Moderation

    Spunjji ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2023 @ 07:30am

    Broken analogy

    It actually means something more like having a sound-dampened lobby where people can choose what they want to hear in peace, instead of having the most vocal dickhead with a megaphone drown everyone else out with their incessant one-note blathering. In an accurate analogy, nobody is being forced to do anything. Of course, that's never really good enough for the kind of people who scream and thrash and cry whenever they're not handed first go at the megaphone.

  • On the post: Bluesky Plans Decentralized Composable Moderation

    Spunjji ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2023 @ 07:24am

    Yes, that is how facts work

    Some speech smells of roses and some of rancid farts. Always will it be so, no matter how hard you want people to join you in huffing farts and proclaiming then to be Free Range Farts That Smell of Roses, Ackshually.

  • On the post: Bluesky Plans Decentralized Composable Moderation

    Spunjji ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2023 @ 07:13am

    Methinks the crybaby troll doth protest too much

    If you think that Nazi ideology being terrible and abusive is "just [someone's] opinion", then you're telling us all we need to know about you. That's the entire point here, of course. You have a right to say things, other people have a right to not want to share space with people who say the things you want to say. If you cannot stomach the latter then you do not truly believe in the former, and can GTFO.

  • On the post: Twitter Suspends Reporter For Reporting On Twitter Hack, Using Same Policy Old Twitter Used To Block NY Post Hunter Biden Story

    Spunjji ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2023 @ 02:18am

    "both sides"

    Which are the two "sides" you see at work here? I see Andy Ngo, a known fabulist and fascist ally, versus anyone prepared to exercise even a modicum of skepticism about an unverified claim made by a pathological liar in defence of an ally and against someone he sees as belonging to an enemy group. As others have noted, it's worth pointing out that what you see is not a tweet, it's an alleged screenshot of a tweet. Is that "motivated reasoning" or is it just reasoning? Skepticism aside, even if we assume it's real, Ngo's best effort at a post-hoc rationalisation doesn't qualify for a ban according to Musk, his fanbots, and the purported principles of the free speech crowd.

  • On the post: Twitter Suspends Reporter For Reporting On Twitter Hack, Using Same Policy Old Twitter Used To Block NY Post Hunter Biden Story

    Spunjji ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2023 @ 02:12am

    derp

    The problem for Twitter was they had no way to verify that at the time, and every reason to doubt the veracity of the NY Post's shoddy reportage. This is literally the only factual conclusion that can be drawn from the "Twitter Files" - that when placed in a difficult crunch situation, Twitter made a bad call that they then rapidly reversed.

  • On the post: Twitter Suspends Reporter For Reporting On Twitter Hack, Using Same Policy Old Twitter Used To Block NY Post Hunter Biden Story

    Spunjji ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2023 @ 02:09am

    Red herring

    The ban was for "sharing hacked materials" which did not happen. It would still be against Elmo's supposed freeze peach principles even if it had happened, which it did not. I appreciate how freeze peach turdblossoms make sure to show the entirety of both cheeks of their whole unwashed ass every opportunity they get.

  • On the post: Twitter Suspends Reporter For Reporting On Twitter Hack, Using Same Policy Old Twitter Used To Block NY Post Hunter Biden Story

    Spunjji ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2023 @ 12:41am

    Of course Ngo would make this look worse

    Makes sense that he'd say the hacker has validated the source of his claimed materials. That's a journalist's job. Of course Ngo wouldn't recognise that, and see it as something malicious, and decide to make up some lies to persuade his gullible audience of his own conclusions. Of course this is all about bending over backwards to use tools they condemn against their own enemies in a way they have previously decried. Of course there are people here trying to justify that as everybody else's hypocrisy. When the projection gets to third-order, I tend to switch off. Fascists be fashing.

  • On the post: Twitter Suspends User For Sharing Washington Post Story About Pentagon Docs Leaker

    Spunjji ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2023 @ 03:06pm

    Glem

    I'm guessing Mr Greenwald feels compelled to take the leaker's side due to the serious dedication to frozen peaches he showed by yelling racial slurs into a camera