Well Carlson is promulgating a conspiracy theory that's now the official ideology of far-right terrorists.its not twitter but i watched about an hour of ben shapiro and then tucker carlson last night. my gut reaction was one that probably a million people have had with things they don't like over the centuries: isn't this stuff going to be banned at some point? it feels so ostentatiously, blatantly negative to me. an incitement to hate.
well yeah. exactly. for a while i've been wondering for a while if the limits of 'free speech' are going to close in a bit in the coming years (I mean decades). i think RT is off air now for example. there are a lot of incentives for states to do things like this and there's an authoritarian trend in anglo culture I think. certainly the idea that you can say more or less anything you want with no consequences, outside of a fairly limited set of things considered hate speech, looks more and more like an quirk of the 90s and 00s than, as it used to seem, an irreversible long-term direction of travelWell Carlson is promulgating a conspiracy theory that's now the official ideology of far-right terrorists.
Sorry, you can't say thatwell yeah. exactly. for a while i've been wondering for a while if the limits of 'free speech' are going to close in a bit in the coming years (I mean decades). i think RT is off air now for example. there are a lot of incentives for states to do things like this and there's an authoritarian trend in anglo culture I think. certainly the idea that you can say more or less anything you want with no consequences, outside of a fairly limited set of things considered hate speech, looks more and more like an quirk of the 90s and 00s than, as it used to seem, an irreversible long-term direction of travel
Haha, you sure destroyed that libtard with your laser-guided satire, bro! The very highest of fives!Sorry, you can't say that
Well, yeah, that's how partially motivated most censorship isHaha, you sure destroyed that libtard with your laser-guided satire, bro! The very highest of fives!
What censorship? Carlson comes out with this toxic garbage on a news network watched by millions.Well, yeah, that's how partially motivated most censorship is
That's a reasonable point, but I think it's a bit mean to pick on @luka like that.What is gonna be added to that by BrexitTillIDie2356633 asking his 17 followers? When his poll shows 99 percent still in favour of Brexit is he gonna quote that survey in future or what? I always feel my eyes automatically sliding away from these things, it just feels like attention seeki from idiots.
Accompanied by the cutesy little bobbin emoji., a thread:
heard this on a podcast thought it was a good summary
"Twitter looks like short strings of text, but in fact it is mostly relational information - who follows who, who interacts with who. It is a vibe engineering machine, where small communities send vibes to particular signifiers. Vibe warfare. The aim is to give as much negative association as possible to the things you don't like."
Thats exactly how I engage with it. Just to survey my local cultural-industrial landscape (IE DAOs)What I still find difficult when trying to get into it is that it’s not actually a place to talk to people. It’s a place to signal and make statements