X/twitter is a media company. choosing which media products to purchase based on political values is how it has always worked.

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xigoi 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Choosing media producers based on their politics is how it always worked. Social networks are not producers of their content.

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sgnelson 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've got a book for you to read...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message

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InitialLastName an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If I have trillions of monkeys on typewriters generating every possible combination of characters, and then from what they "produce" I carefully select what I want to show everyone who comes to my website, how responsible am I for what my visitors see?

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notatoad an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

they pay people to create content for their platform, and use their editorial control to determine what gets surfaced for you to see.

how is that not "producing content"?

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

And yet people struggle to get Elon Musk out of their feeds on Twitter.

	▲	sixothree 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		And yet we pretend he's the only person x pays to post content.

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some_furry 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No, but they decide the moderation policy that incentivizes the content produced (by nature of selecting which users feel comfortable using their product and which do not).

For example, I do not feel comfortable using the same platform as people that post child sexual abuse material. X's Grok is infamous for generating such content on demand. I opt to use platforms that do not have this as a first-class feature. X has selected against my participation and for the participations of people who hold a contrary opinion to me. Even if Grok stops producing CSAM, that selection bias will persist.