Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

X saved free speech online. Without Musk acquiring it, we would have continued to slip into this franken-Resetera level of discourse. Thank God!

X is the platform where everyone can speak as long as it doesn't break the law. That's fantastic. If you don't like a particular subject, you can just move on. That's what the internet was in the 2000s!

Saved?

Seems like it harmed the migration to more free protocol oriented services. One company controlling the algorithm and API to a global conversation. Verified badges getting ranked priority in replies and For You. A DM function that barely functions. Private chats as a promise instead of cryptographic guarantee?

> everyone can speak as long as it doesn't break the law

I have one word for you: "cisgender".

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/x-cisgender-slur-cis-elon...

what speech specifically did it save?

>free protocol oriented services.

Love all of these on paper, I think any tech person would. But they are non-starters. Normies have zero chance of ever deciding to use these.

Just like all the normies who don't use web browsers, email, podcasts, calendars, jpeg image standards. Like how btc and ethereum finally died out and companies aren't adopting stable coins.

Yes.. non-starters, too complicated and fiddly..

He said he would reinstate freedom of speech, but did he actually? [1][2][3][4]

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-promised-free-speech-twit...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/elon-m...

[3] https://www.thefire.org/news/twitter-no-free-speech-haven-un...

[4] https://gizmodo.com/10-times-elon-musk-censored-twitter-user...

> “You may not directly attack other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease,”

How does this make it different than other website's policies in terms of free speech?

Its pretty easy to find large profiles calling others the n word without any reprocussions. cisgender is the only one that gets automatically filtered no matter the context.

cis is not a slur or attack. The only people who believe this are the transphobes.