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Twitter is Just Randomly Deleting People's Lists -- and No One Knows Why (theregister.co.uk)
Twitter has silently, and without warning, deleted reams of lists users have spent months curating. These lists are used by journalists, activists, and loads of other people, to organize and manage twits they follow and aggregate their tweets, links, photos, and videos, reports The Register. From the article: They are, in a way, personalized RSS feeds of information from the Twitter firehose. For the past several days, though, lists have been disappearing from folks' profiles with no notification, and no explanation from Twitter thus far. Some private, or locked, lists have been made public. Among those impacted by the cockup is Australian freelance journalist and Cryptoparty founder Asher Wolf, who said the issue appears to be tied those who use the mobile Twitter App. Switching to different platforms doesn't help, however.
Say what you want, but the so-called "conservative" or "right wing" discussion forums tend to be the most open places where real, unfettered discussion can be held.
It's the left-leaning discussion forums, like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Hacker News and Stack Overflow that, in my opinion, are the least open and least conductive to anything resembling real discussion.
Despite being called "conservative", people on the right tend to value free expression for all, even when it involves ideas that they don't agree with. They find the concepts of censorship, content moderation and banning people to be abhorrent concepts, and won't even subject their opponents to such things.
Meanwhile, it's the so-called "tolerant" leftists that engage in censorship, whether it's overt censorship through the deletion of content and banning of users/customers, or whether it's causing indirect self-censorship through threats of harm to the reputations or bodies of anyone they disagree with.
It isn't right wingers who want to limit what people can express thanks to "political correctness". It isn't right wingers who want to block content they dislike. It isn't right wingers who want to ban users who they disagree with. It's leftists who engage in such behavior.
The political right promotes free and open discussion of all ideas. The political left tries to shut down all expression that doesn't conform to their very narrow world view and narrative.
Yeah, I'm old.
Still room for debate: Twitter users: Twits or twats?
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Where were their backups? They *did* keep backups, right? Or did they just trust a third party to not have an incident such as this?
Gab is not an open discussion forum. It actively bans left leaning accounts. It even blocks them from its Twitter feed. Like PewTube, it's building a right-wing echo chamber by censoring dissenting opinions.
This is all a matter of public record, you can verify it yourself and don't have to take my word for it.
These supposedly free-speech loving sites, set up specifically to be permissive, always seem to quickly end up banning anything they don't like on some flimsy excuse.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
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Why don't you try posting something like "illegal immigrants are a pain in the ass" on /r/politics. I'll wait for your ban, you could post say "not all illegal immigrants are a pain in the ass" on T_D, people would even tell you to defend your pov. Besides, that, you been paying to the absolute bullshit going on in FOSS communities? Where people have started witch hunting code contributors because they have sexual life styles that the new leftist moral majority don't like. Enjoy the shit show
But you're an anonymous coward. There is no "you", and therefore, no one gives a fuck about "your" opinion.
But you sure got up in arms over it.
That is complete, utter, total, and every other kind of bullshit. The conservative wing is powered by the religious reich, which absolutely opposes free expression.
The religious hold on conservative has been dead around 20-28 years at this point. You might have missed it if you were living in a social bubble, where they kept telling you that though. It was roughly that wingnuts were trying to blow up abortion clinics, and people simply had enough.
You either haven't read up much on the Nazis, or you think they were grand.
So let's look at all that fascist stuff the left is going down with: Free speech walls, making claims that "bad speech is hate speech" with the demands that anything contrary to their opinion must be silenced. Doxing, going after employees of companies(there's even a giant tumblr blog you can find that they still refuse to take down). There was the apparent case of witch hunting on a game developer the other day by leftists(they class themselves as SJW's just a FYI) for holding opinions they didn't like.
Oh and remember the limerick from Pillars of Eternity they didn't like? And got so upset that they started attacking the developers so it got changed...or how about the time when they went after one of the artists for Divinity: Original Sin.
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