RRB @rrb@social.cleverlibre.org

@n8fr8

Interesting. Lead me to look for the region where Creek Indians lived (maternal great-grandmother). I may well be living in that territory:

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~prsjr/na/maps/1820_e_tribes.jpg

Thanks,

Nathan

@lauren Why didn't he just buy Truth Social to begin with?

@AutismFather https://github.com/barneygale/quarry

@GardenOfEden@mstdn.social Free sppeech, except if he feels personally insulted.

@nicholedavis Not from New England

@JosephMenn Since he is lookig for an AI to do this, the question is the training data. How long until Twitter moderation becomes Tay:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/microsoft-terminates-its-tay-ai-chatbot-after-she-turns-into-a-nazi/

@obi

There is the polarization, but a lot of that is having only 2 parties. Two parties is a product of the "first past the post" electoral system. And, both sides wanting to whip up their sides. I do not really like either side.

But, the leftist rhetoric is too whiny, boring and detached to trigger violence. It is just totally boring and ineffective. There is also the reflexive immediate offense to any statement no matter how well intended. Where the right side is getting pretty close to directly telling people to go out and kill people.

This BBC documentary has some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ3WuRDYO2A

@obi

I am fine with conflict and arguments. I actually have trouble getting people to disagree with me enough. I get more annoyed by people agreeing with me too much.

Name calling, etc. annoys me.

I am finding the fediverse more pleasant and people more informed/open than the bird site.

Maybe the lack of algorithmic incitement to hate has something to do with it.

@obi OK. But, lots of right wing violence happening lately. Worries me. Hope this starts to calm down. Some of this rhetoric does not help.

@obi Not directly resulted. But, I think the year long anti-trans campaign by Republicans definitely added to it. Part of it is triggering people on the edge.

@obi Would agree with 90% of what you are saying and I would want to let everyone run their mouth.

Am getting annoyed about the right wing feeling aggrieved and somehow thinking that they have no right to speech, just because some people call out racism.

Also, some of the current rhetoric is fueling violence against Jews, protesters, women. Shutting them up won't help, but people should pay more attention.

The new ACLU is silly.

@obi

My own view would be aligned with the old ACLU protecting the rights of Nazi's to march.

But, I do see connections between the Rep. campaigns demonizing gays and trans with the latest mass shootings.

The way the rhetoric is going now is seeming more like anti-semitism in Germany in the 1930s.

I do not see this as a free speech issue. And the right wing adoption of "free speech" seems hypocritical to me.

I do not think Musk is going to draw more advertisers by promoting these voices.

@obi Marjorie Taylor Greene saying that Dem. politicians should "get a bullet to the head." Seems clear. Peterson's wanting "enforced monogamy" for all women seems a tad anti-women. Ye has issues.

@obi

Musk does not seem very forgiving of speech that counters him.

Frankly, he seems to be more of a bully.

@obi

I don't here outrage about left wing voices not being present on Fox News. The debate seems to be what Germans would call "blind in the right eye." But as far as ther

Taylor Greene:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-democrats-violence/index.html

Not to mention Jewish space lasers

Jordan Peterson:

"Violent attacks are what happens when men do not have partners, Mr. Peterson says, and society needs to work to make sure those men are married.

“He was angry at God because women were rejecting him,” Mr. Peterson says of the Toronto killer. “The cure for that is enforced monogamy. That’s actually why monogamy emerges.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life.html

Forcing women into marriage sounds pretty sick to me.

Ye:

Death Con 3 for Jews?

@obi Seems leaning a bit in one direction. I do not see Ye, Jordan Peterson, or Taylor Greene as people involved in discussions. They seem mainly involved in inciting violence and various forms of racism/misogyny.

From Wash Post:

"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) urged followers of her official congressional account to follow the revived, “unfiltered” personal account on the platform, the Hill’s Rebecca Klar reports. Twitter in January suspended the account for violating its policy on covid-19 misinformation in January.

Taylor Greene is the latest high-profile, previously suspended account to be allowed back on the platform in the wake of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. Ye, the rapper previously known as Kanye West, tweeted on the platform on Sunday, CNBC reported. Twitter had restricted his account after posting antisemitic tweets. Musk on Friday announced he was restoring accounts belonging to Canadian professor Jordan Peterson and the satirical Babylon Bee, which had been suspended for misgendering an actor and a Biden administration official."

So, Elon's "free speech" agenda is ...?