Twitter Censorship Bans All Non-Gays, Non-Ghostbusters

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Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Return Of JimmyJars posted:

Bro like 95% of anything internet runs on something that's Unix or Linux based. Sure there are a bunch of idiot weirdo holdouts running IIS and MSSql but that's few and far between.

I'm talking about the OS running on the computers accessing the internet in the first place.

Windows has just under 85% global marketshare.

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Linux Pirate: Apr 21, 2012

Good, Milo is poopy gently caress oval office

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ANIME IS BLOOD: Sep 4, 2008; by zen death robot

smartphones? the gently caress is a smartphone

Lastgirl posted:

we're bored hi

sup

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reallivedinosaur: Jun 13, 2012; Ogdober subrise! XDDD

hes not the right kind of gay

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Ivor Biggun: Apr 30, 2003; A big "Fuck You!" from the Keyhole nebula; Lipstick Apathy

Strudel Man posted:

I think twitter has a quasi-monopoly in precisely what it does, but that's partially because what it does is pretty weird/unique and not actually that useful. And it's almost certainly going to crash and burn before too long because it cannot possibly make money.

The only feature Twitter has over Facebook is that it permits anonymous accounts, which are used by trolls to harass people. It's not the best business plan.

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pop fly to McGillicutty: Feb 2, 2004; A peckish little mouse!

Vince MechMahon posted:

There's no free speech on the internet because every website is a privately run business who can choose who gets in. If you don't want to get banned don't break the rules. Should be a pretty easy concept for members of the Something Awful forums, honestly.

Nailed it

# ? Jul 20, 2016 20:46

Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

If you wanted to make internet access a publicly regulated utility and expand regulation that way, I'd be all aboard. Getting mad at a private entity for controlling the content that appears on their own private network is dumb.

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reallivedinosaur: Jun 13, 2012; Ogdober subrise! XDDD

Vince MechMahon posted:

There's no free speech on the internet because every website is a privately run business who can choose who gets in. If you don't want to get banned don't break the rules. Should be a pretty easy concept for members of the Something Awful forums, honestly.

so can we call out businesses for being lovely or not?

do the same rules apply if I dont want to bake a wedding cake or serve certain minorities?

# ? Jul 20, 2016 20:47

Return Of JimmyJars: Jun 24, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

Moridin920 posted:

I'm talking about the OS running on the computers accessing the internet in the first place.

Windows has just under 85% global marketshare.

Not really more and more people get the internet through smart phones. That 85% global market share is majority business computers.

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ArbitraryC: Jan 28, 2009; Pick a number, any number; Pillbug

Moridin920 posted:

It happens for all kinds of reasons to be sure. I just don't think Twitter has the ability to do what people in this thread are claiming in terms of their leverage over public discourse.

If Twitter had a natural monopoly on social media and/or communication then we'd have a way bigger problem on our hands imo. They def have competitors and their popularity is waning even today. I don't even know anyone who really uses Twitter except one hipster friend who follows music artists with it. It's just not as much of a scary boogeyman as you guys are painting it out to be. If they started grossly manipulating search results and engaging in political censorship, I think people would catch on fairly quick and jump ship.

I mean it sort of already does this, there's been some insider leaks that facebook manually reshuffles around news priority to push down conservative stuff, encourage progressive stuff, and sometimes singlehandedly puts a progressive video/article that would have flown under the radar in the spotlight to get it more attention. As a progressive myself i can't say I'm unhappy with this trend but I certainly would be if it was going the other way.

Similarly the alt-right is seen as a huge bogeyman on the internet but in terms of presence they've pretty much all been corralled into their own reddit and 4chan hellholes, stuff like how milo was handled is already evidence that twitter is doing this it's just to people you and me dislike anyways so we can't really be assed to care. It's not a hypothetical that social media is shaping political discourse, it's already an objective reality. The only question really remaining is how far it will go.

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The question is not 'will this company be nice to me and not infringe on my rights,' the question is 'how do we ensure these companies aren't in these positions in the first place.' If we're demanding our companies respect our rights then poo poo has gone very wrong already. Ofc Twitter has no obligation to let people say whatever on their private platform and if that's the argument the left is running with then they've already lost the war.

I think that's totally fair but it's going to be a very hard to avoid problem as the years go on with some pretty drastic policy changes on how the internet and content on it is provided to people.

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Stinky_Pete: Aug 16, 2015; Stinkier than your average bear; Lipstick Apathy

I support this ban because I don't like Milo and also Twitter sucks and the fewer people on it the better

FuhrerHat posted:

what is your problem, jeez louise

I assume it's a reference to some part of the Ghostbusters movie, given the lazy stereotypes I saw in the trailer

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spit on my clit: Jul 19, 2015; by Cyrano4747

#Dicksoutforyiannopoulos

twitter allows isis and al qaeda to tweet but they wont let some human being tweet good stuff because someone feels it's too "problematic" to be on the internet

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Strudel Man: May 19, 2003; ROME DID NOT HAVE ROBOTS, FUCKWIT

Moridin920 posted:

I'm talking about the OS running on the computers accessing the internet in the first place.

Windows has just under 85% global marketshare.

If Microsoft showed any inclination of doing anything like that, I'm sure people would be quite concerned about it.

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Al Cowens: Aug 11, 2004; by WE B Bourgeois

Mark Zuckerburg is best buds with Angela Merkel and former Stasi agents are on the facebook payroll manipulating German politics.

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pop fly to McGillicutty: Feb 2, 2004; A peckish little mouse!

reallivedinosaur posted:

so can we call out businesses for being lovely or not?

do the same rules apply if I dont want to bake a wedding cake or serve certain minorities?

You can do whatever you like.

Free speech means you won't be jailed or killed (by the powers of govt) for your opinion. It doesn't mean you can be a huge racist rear end in a top hat on Twitter and not get banned.

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Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

reallivedinosaur posted:

so can we call out businesses for being lovely or not?

do the same rules apply if I dont want to bake a wedding cake or serve certain minorities?

Except this is more like 'I should be allowed to scream the N word in Disneyland because that's my right as a US citizen and they are infringing on my rights by booting me out.'

ArbitraryC posted:

I mean it sort of already does this, there's been some insider leaks that facebook manually reshuffles around news priority to push down conservative stuff, encourage progressive stuff, and sometimes singlehandedly puts a progressive video/article that would have flown under the radar in the spotlight to get it more attention. As a progressive myself i can't say I'm unhappy with this trend but I certainly would be if it was going the other way.

I think it's pretty shady either way (not that it surprises me ofc), but I just really doubt the efficacy of this strategy.

Idk maybe I'm wrong but I feel like if you're conservative and on the internet you're totally capable of getting conservative news while realizing that 'liberal media bias' is rampant, and vice versa. In the end, most people go read what they want to read and interpret out of it what they want to interpret.

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Cthulu Carl: Apr 16, 2006

blarzgh posted:

Are you insulting me by calling me a homosexual?

What makes you think I think about what I post?

# ? Jul 20, 2016 20:52

Stinky_Pete: Aug 16, 2015; Stinkier than your average bear; Lipstick Apathy

ArbitraryC posted:

I mean it sort of already does this, there's been some insider leaks that facebook manually reshuffles around news priority to push down conservative stuff, encourage progressive stuff, and sometimes singlehandedly puts a progressive video/article that would have flown under the radar in the spotlight to get it more attention. As a progressive myself i can't say I'm unhappy with this trend but I certainly would be if it was going the other way.

Wow, where have you been? Even Glenn Beck knows that's a myth.

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reallivedinosaur: Jun 13, 2012; Ogdober subrise! XDDD

Moridin920 posted:

Except this is more like 'I should be allowed to scream the N word in Disneyland because that's my right as a US citizen and they are infringing on my rights by booting me out.'

so he was tweeting the n word?

# ? Jul 20, 2016 20:55

reallivedinosaur: Jun 13, 2012; Ogdober subrise! XDDD

and kids i guess?

# ? Jul 20, 2016 20:56

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

sup

nm friend, kickin back to some ATQC and drinkin some good whiskey while the world is on fire as normie hehe~

i for 1 am shocked about this and deeply offended and hope some closure comes out of it, like in my favorite steven spielberg blockbuster movie where justice is finally served and we all can wipe our hands clean of this

# ? Jul 20, 2016 20:57

ANIME IS BLOOD: Sep 4, 2008; by zen death robot

reallivedinosaur posted:

so can we call out businesses for being lovely or not?

do the same rules apply if I dont want to bake a wedding cake or serve certain minorities?

# ? Jul 20, 2016 20:57

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

"i should be allowed to hate speech on twitter"

# ? Jul 20, 2016 20:58

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

hate speech is bad and should not be used when people have died for us to exercise our free speech in better and more contributing ways

my controversial opinion

# ? Jul 20, 2016 20:59

Strudel Man: May 19, 2003; ROME DID NOT HAVE ROBOTS, FUCKWIT

Zombie Boat posted:

Free speech means you won't be jailed or killed (by the powers of govt) for your opinion.

I think this is a somewhat myopic view of things. The first amendment's protections on freedom of speech weren't just for funsies; they were based on a philosophical position that society is better served when people are in fact able to express novel or controversial opinions. That purpose is undermined when anyone is in a position to (and does) restrict speech, not just when the government does.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:00

Stinky_Pete: Aug 16, 2015; Stinkier than your average bear; Lipstick Apathy

I think that hate speech is good, but I also think that banning Milo from Twitter is good

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:00

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

'hate speech is bad'

"now just wait a minute, that's just a little too narrow-minded don't you think? after all there's all these nuances to think about when it comes to speeching and hating"
:goonsay:

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:01

blarzgh: Apr 14, 2009; SNITCHIN' RANDY; Grimey Drawer

Cthulu Carl posted:

What makes you think I think about what I post?

TOUCHE'

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:01

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

throw that milo yannapoopppy in jail. twitter jail :c00l:

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:02

reallivedinosaur: Jun 13, 2012; Ogdober subrise! XDDD

Lastgirl posted:

'hate speech is bad'

"now just wait a minute, that's just a little too narrow-minded don't you think? after all there's all these nuances to think about when it comes to speeching and hating"

dont tell me who i can love or hate or why

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:03

GET IN THE ROBOT: Nov 28, 2007; JUST GET IN THE FUCKING ROBOT SHINJI

When do you guys think that twitter will finally go outta business and just die? Because I eagerly await that day

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:03

ANIME IS BLOOD: Sep 4, 2008; by zen death robot

ad hominem is now hate speech then

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:03

blarzgh: Apr 14, 2009; SNITCHIN' RANDY; Grimey Drawer

Also, a sincere heartfelt thanks to all the goons who trundled in as fast as they could trundle, to :goonsay:

First Amendment Does Not Apply To Private Companies.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:04

reallivedinosaur: Jun 13, 2012; Ogdober subrise! XDDD

Gammatron 64 posted:

When do you guys think that twitter will finally go outta business and just die? Because I eagerly await that day

has twitter ever put together a plan to make money yet? besides commercializing their api?

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:04

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

reallivedinosaur posted:

dont tell me who i can love or hate or why

if u dont like wut i have 2 say

then..

then..

get out of are cuntree :911:

or out of my internet echo chamber, whichever applies here to the topic at hand

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:05

Stinky_Pete: Aug 16, 2015; Stinkier than your average bear; Lipstick Apathy

reallivedinosaur posted:

has twitter ever put together a plan to make money yet? besides commercializing their api?

They sell ads, don't they?

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:05

Donovan Trip: Jan 6, 2007

Moridin920 posted:

It's just interesting that this situation basically already exists but with MS Windows.

The argument is computers and internet access are basically vital to function in today's society (which is true imo), thus Twitter is dangerous for being able to control the narrative somehow. Meanwhile just under 85% of all computers in the world are running Windows, giving Microsoft an actual effective monopoly over the tools we use to access our world.

If you're worried about Twitter, the leverage MS has over us should be making you poo poo yourself. There's nothing theoretically preventing Microsoft from pushing an update that blocks a list of websites from being accessible by Windows, the list being populated by major traffic sites that won't give MS a kickback ofc. Net neutrality has nothing to do with it because they aren't an ISP.

delet this

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