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by Seirdy 1323 days ago
Many worried about what Twitter's changes would mean for under-represented groups. Given this news and Twitter also cutting its accessibility department, I think we can see their new attitude towards minorities isn't particularly friendly.
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yucky 1323 days ago
Under-represented...where exactly? I'm interested in hearing which groups that you think are under-represented based on their percentage of the population.
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landoftheice 1323 days ago
The cold and disappointing truth is that the only institutions with the power to actually do something about human rights are all captured and steered to acquire wealth & power under the auspices of human rights & 'saving the earth'.

And yes, if you ask me, making whole swaths of populations more poor and less powerful is the same as increasing the power and wealth of this group of usurpers.

This is all possible because most people are good and support human rights because (to me, and us commenting) to do otherwise is ghoulish. So through social manipulation & constant reinforcement of what is good for human rights and telling the public who is doing all this good for humans is critical to grift I described above in the abstract.

So clearly, even though twitter human rights dept has little to no actual power to improve human rights, this department is critical to shaping the narrative to the public that the institutions who DO have power to help 'human rights' are actually doing so.

Look at the world today and you know in your heart things are getting worse but watch with a keen eye at how viciouly the levers of propaganda are fought for.

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blurbleblurble 1323 days ago
They did have quite a bit of power in situations where Twitter was being used for coordinated inauthentic behavior in regions where ethnic cleansing and genocide were under way.
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davidguetta 1323 days ago
Or it will be the end of the insane "approved visible minorities" privileges and the beginning of a system where no one is a special snowflake and everyone is treated equal.

Or even better:

More poor trailer-park-raised peomle in positions of power ! Economic class is the new race (spoiler: is always has been)

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