[telaelit]

These “Twitter Files” have been so disappointing. I was really expecting to see some crazy stuff, but all I’m seeing is a company that was moderating their content. Even the incident that Weiss points out of someone being doxxed and Twitter doing nothing about it happened under Elon’s rule, and was probably not moderated because of the chaos that Elon created. Even the people that were “shadow banned” makes sense, I’m actually surprised that they didn’t moderate accounts like Libs of TikTok even more considering that they’re actively shutting down children’s hospitals and directing hate and violence towards transsexual people. All in all, a big nothingburger.

[Khaine]

libsoftiktok has not ben actively shutting down children's hospitals. They have been reposting public information from the hospitals that they find objectionable, such as encouraging young children to have life altering surgery, that has been stopped in other countries because of the potential for harm[1].

There readers have also expressed outrage at the objectionable activities and raised concerns with whoever would listen.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62335665

[telaelit]

Exactly what I’m saying, Libs of TikTok has been using their followers to direct hate and violence towards the LGBTQ+ community and as a result they’ve put children’s lives in danger by shutting down hospitals. Twitter’s advertisers don’t want to be associated with such hateful conduct. I’m glad we agree.

[Georgelemental]

Do you have an example of them advocating for or encouraging violence against anyone?

[nrki]

No https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1516829759333969924

[hyperdunc]

In other words, Twitter was moderating user content according to a systemic far-left political bias at the company. But since your bias matches, you don't think it's a big deal.

[ModernMech]

If Twitter had a far left moderating bias, explain how Donald Trump remained on the platform for years while repeatedly and unapologetically violating the TOS. It took him using the platform to launch a failed coup to get him banned.

Very hard to buy that the platform was a political tool of Democrats when it was being used effectively as a political tool by the leader of the Republican party.

[hyperdunc]

He was POTUS, that's why. And still they got rid of him as soon as they could. Less well known figures got booted for less.

[ModernMech]

He was POTUS when they got rid of him too. He also wasn’t POTUS while he violated the TOS before he got elected. So your reasoning doesn’t follow

All you’ve done here is confirmed that Trump, a conservative right-wing politician, got treated better by the supposedly biased left-wing Twitter mods than anyone else on the platform. He violated the Twitter TOS daily and got a free pass over and over again by Twitter mods. Really cuts against the “left-wing bias” narrative you’re pushing here imo.

[telaelit]

If the political bias you’re seeing is “far-left” then you’re very far to the right. Advertisers don’t want to advertise on a website that is being used to direct hate and violence towards the LGBTQ+ community, advertisers are the main source of revenue for Twitter, thus content directing hate and violence towards the LGBTQ+ community are moderated. Similar arguments could be made for other ways in which Twitter was moderating their content. Those are decisions to boost revenue and to make Twitter a safer place for people to hang out, I don’t see how those are “far left” biased decisions. If employees were pushing a “far left” agenda I’d expect to see every conservative shadow banned, instead conservatives were protected (ex. Libs of TikTok not being kicked off). Last year Twitter even admitted to boosting conservative content in order to try to appease conservatives claiming a bias [0]. Im sorry but I just don’t see anything that proves there was a “systemic far left political bias” at Twitter. If anything I’m seeing a far-right systemic bias growing at Twitter with Elon at the helm.

[0] - https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-a...

[hyperdunc]

The average person would not agree a far right systemic bias is now growing. What you're seeing is a correction towards the center.

[archagon]

Just more outrage theater by the right.