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T.'s avatar

Unfortunately, the woman being censored with the tape over her mouth is bringing back memories of twitter before its new wave of freedom of speech iteration, it is "suppsedly" under now.

Unfortunately, what goes around, sometimes comes back, more invigorated than previously experienced.

Word now is Elon is censoring anything he disagrees with on his platform, and if this turns out to be true, not only will he be "unfollowed", but we potentially lose another 1st ammendment, virtual town square.

Since I am personally not on X, it will not directly affect me negatively.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

yup, me too. Only have enuf time for SS as it is!

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Barbara Lee's avatar

I read a lot of X. As usual, people WANT to hate Elon. He is trying not to censor but to encourage thoughtful debate. Example: I write a paragraph explaining some idea I have that contradicts the original narrative. A post pops up calling me a F*clung Karen. That comment is a regretted moment because it does nothing (except attempt to insult). I mute those but the algorithm is now deboosting them so I can see legitimately reasonable posts first. As a result several people replied to my post with some fairly thoughtful criticism. There is NO perfect AI algorithm (despite what everyone hopes). There will always be rough bumps in the road. Elons attempt to make for fewer unregretted minutes reading through hundreds of comments (many of which are inscrutable at best) is a lovely effort. I hope it works.

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