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Twitter seems to ban all Threads links to reaffirm its position as a “free speech absolutist” platform (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A search for Threads content on Twitter currently brings up zero results, despite plenty of links to Meta’s microblogging rival being posted on the platform.

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[–] 27 points 3 years ago (12 children)

lol 'cancel culture' used to be called 'boycotting' / 'speaking with your wallet' used to be called 'having an opinion'

its not new, obviously we should punch nazis, and you can be certain anyone who says the words 'cancel culture' unironically is a tool with less than a 10 year memory span, max.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (9 children)

    ‘boycotting’ / ‘speaking with your wallet’ used to be called ‘having an opinion’

    Cancel Culture is none of those things. Cancel Culture is very specifically taking a platform away from someone who has misused it to do harm in our society.

    Should you choose to vote with your wallet and boycott destructive people, though? Yes, absolutely. But deplatforming is observably effective, because we've seen that many of these loud, awful people simply aren't able to rebuild their following without the convenience of major social media platforms and interviews on major networks.

    And without that following, they aren't shit. Alex Jones literally went bankrupt.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    so first, we generally agree and I don't want to get into an argument with you.

    If cancel culture means 'deplatforming' to you, thats great. I agree deplatforming works. But the term 'cancel culture' is deliberately vague, does include boycotting, and is just one of the many terms made up by the right to create a 'boogey man'. I tend to throw these terms back in their faces as laughable ('woke', 'CRT' - all the same badly defined bullshit that just means 'things I don't like'). If your strategy is to embrace, rehab, and legitimize the terms thats fine too.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Deplatforming requires a centralized platform from which to deplatform. Ability to sometimes deplatform real Nazis (but usually not) is not worth centralizing crucial systems, end of story.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Not necessarily. It just requires that admins do their job and be good stewards of their users and instances.

    Mastodon, for instance, has a tag used exclusively for dogpiling fascists and their instances, so even though it's decentralized, people are vigilant and keep the destructive elements disconnected. (Or, at least, make a great effort of it, which is more than we can say for Twitter.)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not a 140 characters person, so never got on the Twitter/Mastodon train.

    However, I think this is a wrong approach. It would be better if they were connected, but easily filtered. Just like NSFW.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago*

    Mastodon gives you 500 characters.

    Also it has filters. :) I use those too, but I don't have Nazi or Fascist speech filtered because I think it's of the utmost importance that it be reported when it slips through. The upside is that in nine months of being on Mastodon, I can count on one hand the number of extremist toots I've seen. I'm glad filters exist for people who are emotionally upset by it, though.

    It's a great platform and I love it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    No, that's what I described in parentheses. Not really existent yet in the Web.

    While "cancel culture" (in its narrow meaning in the Web, again) is when you have serious problems talking even to those who are willing to listen to you or undecided. Say, you won't ever read something, because the decision has been made for you by somebody else, and you don't even choose whether to delegate that decision.

    The difference is in the architecture of systems used, actually. Because with both things every person involved acts voluntarily, it's just that in my variant that power to decide is spread more evenly.

    What I mean is similar to the reputation system in Locutus, only it doesn't work yet.

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