It likely just means trump and that gay conservative guy who would say things for the shock value. The Bee is satirical site and banning them for anything makes as much sense as banning the onion.
If the onion starts spouting off un-funny, non-satire, completely standard talking points and trying to hide behind "satire" when it isn't, I would absolutely want them banned too.
I’m not gonna get into the weeds with you about what is and isn’t funny. But I think you prove why Musk is facing an uphill battle, the issue with twitter isn’t technological or better moderation.
It’s cultural, we have many people (like you) who believe they’re the arbitrators of truth. They alone understand and know what is fact and what is fiction, even if that fact is a moving target that changes by the hour, the hypocrisy of that is totally lost on these folks (ie you).
Additionally, the fact-setters refuse to even entertain the idea that maybe their “facts” are not based on reality, and they label anyone who disagrees with them as evil. And everyone agrees that evil must be culled. They will often use extreme epithets (nazi, bigot, hitler, white supremacist) to get their point across, no matter how inappropriate, contradictory, or ahistorical that insult might be in context.
Until people can step out of their bubble and be willing to admit that the world is a million shades of grey we’re not gonna solve this problem.
We can call people who exhibit many of Umberto Eco’s characteristics of fascism as fascists when they act in such a manner.
Why should people tolerate the intolerant? Why should people tolerate those who can’t even follow basic TOS and behave as adults?
Why should the world tolerate people like that ex president who mocked a reporter with disabilities, who said he grabs women by their genitals, who has received multiple accusations of sexual assault, has been on Eipstein’s island and likely touched little girls?
Why should reasonable people be tolerant to dysfunctional adults who support such a president and share his dog-whistle soundbites? Why should the world tolerate people who are actively calling for their murder? Why should reasonable people give space to people like Pence who want to shove their Christianity down the throat of everyone else?
I will exercise my free speech and call fascists the fascists they are until they stop behaving like fascists. The intolerant deserve no tolerance.
I'm not so sure. It's something like Christians vs Transvestites, then you ban one of the groups and that's valuable because otherwise the other one will attack Pepsi?
not sure if it was intentional but in case it wasn't, you probably shouldn't use the term transvestite as it's pretty outdated. depending on what you mean by it, transgender, cross-dresser, or genderfluid are some of the modern equivalents.
It's certainly valuable to Twitter's largest customers. Think GM, Coca-Cola, et al. I suspect the industry won't look much different after Twitter has gone private and "new" policies have taken hold.
