In the case of X, the business owner is aggressively pushing his political views on users by heavy-handed methods like prioritizing his own posts in algorithmic feeds and overriding the context of his AI bot to parrot his pet ideas.

If you went to a restaurant and it had Confederate flags and pro-slavery memorabilia on the walls, would you think: “Well, that’s just their political view, I don’t have to share it to eat here?”

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AlecSchueler 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> pushing his political views on users by heavy-handed methods like prioritizing his own posts in algorithmic feeds

He's also using his fame and fortune to much more directly fund and promote political change in places like the UK. It goes beyond this one service, but moving away from this service weakens his position more broadly as well.

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commandlinefan 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> the business owner is aggressively pushing his political views

That's always been the case with Twitter - Dorsey was just as bad, but just with a different set of political views. (Views that, I presume, the EFF is aligned with).

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abustamam 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Last year my sister visited me and she wanted to go a nearby karaoke bar because she loves karaoke. I'd never been to this place before.

We get there and it's all white people, and there was an older gentleman singing a country song. We take a seat at an empty booth underneath a confederate flag and a sign about the 2A. We joke about how rednecky the vibes were.

For context, my wife is Chinese and wears a hijab, my sister and I are southeast Asian, and my sister's boyfriend is Indian. Couldn't have a more non-white group if you'd asked for one.

Despite feeling deeply out of place, but not unsafe, we got some songs in, ate some meh bar food, and had an all-around good time. My sister's boyfriend chatted with some people in the smoke room. Everyone was friendly.

A lot of people really don't care about the politics of the establishments they visit. They just want to have a good time.

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shermantanktop 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo%27s

It was real, and even as a kid I knew it was wrong.

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giardini 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I will always remember fondly the story of "Little Black Sambo". I was at that point in childhood where judgement was not yet developed but I could appreciate a good story, especially if fantastic things happened. After all, I was a little boy like Sambo.

So I feared for Sambo when he encountered the tigers. I was elated when he eluded them by first racing around the tree and then climbing it. I was mystified how tigers running round and round a tree could turn to butter (but set that aside so I could continue the story and reduce my fearful suspense). I was relieved to see that Sambo was safe. I identified with Sambo (although I am neither black or brown).

Hoorah for the fantastic tales from many lands that filled my childhood and those of my brothers and sisters with wonder!

I am still a child when I read fairy tales and fables.

	▲	davidw 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's not the plot/story that are racist. It was the slurs and illustrations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Little_Black_Samb...

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kstrauser 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For a long time I thought that was a fever dream from my childhood. Nope. I still can't quite believe that was real, but I personally remember it.

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notahacker 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> If you went to a restaurant and it had Confederate flags and pro-slavery memorabilia on the walls, would you think: “Well, that’s just their political view, I don’t have to share it to eat here?”

Even more so if it's not just a personal decision to get a bite to eat, but one taken by a lobbying organization about where to host events promoting speech rights, and the new owner is co-opting their language of speech rights to justify his policy of putting Conferedate flags behind the bar (whilst actually barring more people he doesn't like than the old owner as well as scaring off most of the people who supported the organizations mission and pasting KKK event ads flyers over the top of theirs). At some point continuing to hang out there and host events for ever diminishing numbers of people who mostly seem to reinterpret everything you say as screeds against 'woke' ceases to be a "politically neutral, pro-free speech" stance.

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pesacharia 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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protimewaster 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There are many studies that point toward the opposite, so I strongly suspect you're wrong.

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archagon 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Absolutely not. Today's Twitter is an absurd MAGA echo chamber. Here's Nate Silver with the receipts: https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak...

Are you that user that replaces all your comments with periods once enough people flag you?

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elmean 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

elon burner found

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Ms-J 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People have absolute freedom of expression.

"If you went to a restaurant and it had Confederate flags and pro-slavery memorabilia on the walls, would you think: “Well, that’s just their political view, I don’t have to share it to eat here?”

Yes? If you go to the southern part of the United States, there are many restaurants with Confederate memorabilia and Confederate flags on the back of truck windows.

Some trucks even have hairy testicles hanging off the hitch haha!

	▲	davidw 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If people get gender-affirming care for their trucks, that's their own business, but no, no I will not eat in a place with a Confederate flag. I find the idea of venerating an ideology that held that it was ok to hold human beings in bondage from the moment of their birth to their death to be abhorrent.
	▲	watwut an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> People have absolute freedom of expression. And that icludes not using x. And it includes criticising, mocking or talking about what x owner does.