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420 points rvz | 4 comments | 31 Aug 24 13:28 UTC | HN request time: 1.064s | source
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joejohnson ◴[31 Aug 24 14:27 UTC] No.41409095[source]▶
Hopefully most people migrate to one of the alternatives not owned by an American oligarch
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adventured ◴[31 Aug 24 14:34 UTC] No.41409158[source]▶
There are no possible alternatives to US based services unless you enjoy extreme restrictions on speech. Europe has become a big no-go zone for speech over the past decade, they're outright hostile and authoritarian about it (with only a few exceptions among European nations). And the direction re liberalism and human rights in Europe is overwhelmingly hostile toward speech. And for South America, Africa and Asia you can entirely forget about it, there are no reliable speech protected locations in any of those.
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morkalork ◴[31 Aug 24 14:47 UTC] No.41409264[source]▶
Social media is trending towards regional balkanisation. Governments are clueing into the fact giving everyone including foreign states free reign to broadcast to, and manipulate, their constituants is a bad idea. Just look at what happened in the UK recently with the riots. Twitter's days are numbered there.
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declan_roberts ◴[01 Sep 24 00:29 UTC] No.41413136[source]▶
You believe the riots in UK are because of twitter?

People are living in parallel universes.

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sega_sai ◴[01 Sep 24 01:15 UTC] No.41413390[source]▶
They were to large extent provoked by misinformation about the attacker on kids party. The misinformation stayed on twitter for long time and was spread out by many people including Musk.
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1. throwaway48476 ◴[01 Sep 24 01:58 UTC] No.41413600[source]▶
If you believe that I have a colour revolution theory to sell you.
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2. churchill ◴[01 Sep 24 02:40 UTC] No.41413795[source]▶
A crazed 17yo son of African immigrants murdered 3 kids. Then, the far-right seized on it to make assumptions about the attacker, speculate he was a Muslim, and even provide a fake name. In fact, some of these Twitter accounts (Tristan Tate, etc.) shared the picture of a young Black preacher as the attacker. I saw it and I know when the post disappeared from EndWokeness' and Tristan Tate's page while I was reading through the comments. The young man in question had to make video clarifying he wasn't the attacker.
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3. churchill ◴[01 Sep 24 03:00 UTC] No.41413892{3}[source]▶
LMAo. I just gave you an objective breakdown of what happened and suddenly, I'm prone to conspiracy theories? I gave you the info of two people Elon Musk has platformed explicitly (EndWokeness, Tate brothers) and how they inflamed the riots across the UK, and somehow, what you deduced is that I'm a conspiracy theory type?
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4. throwaway48476 ◴[01 Sep 24 03:07 UTC] No.41413932{4}[source]▶
You are alleging some kind of conspiracy where a few twitter accounts are able to spread misinformation that somehow a hundred thousand people see and act upon in coordination.

The british protests/riot mass movement cannot be attributed to misinformation any more than the Arab spring can be attributed to the police mistreating the Tunisian merchant.