As someone else on Twitter noted, apparently the only way to get these people to care about COVID deaths is to express them in terms on lost Twitter followers.
I wanted to be born again but Mum said NO!
Parler might have survived if they’d rebranded as OnlyKlans.
This Mozilla article is something that sorely needed to be written. It solidifies my (and likely many others’) disparate thoughts that are hard to put to paper or word doc about what has to be done.
I’d also greatly appreciate it if these platforms took this as a real wake-up call to start using the tweets and postings of the people that’ve been banned and the platforms that’ve had their hosting removed as a body of evidence/collection of reference material to engage in moderation and deplatforming before the worst and nastiest comes to pass. From Charlottesville to the Christchurch shooting and now to this attempted putsch, sites and hosting providers acting after these events have happened with the planning out there right in the open, it irritates me.
I know that moderators, admins, and so forth can’t be everywhere all at once. But at the same time, you can easily pick out the biggest instigators, provocateurs, and scumbags. Platforms can see the ones with the biggest follower counts (and look at the stuff of those followers), engagement metrics, group membership, and so forth, and hosting providers can see traffic flow and then look at the content of what people are posting on whatever they’re hosting. They need to treat these fascists like the terrorists they really are and ban them and deplatform them like they do with the likes of ISIS. Build moderation teams to look at the biggest instigators, what they’re doing and saying, who’s following them and what those people are saying and so forth. Report things to the FBI or the FBI equivalent in other countries if possible, depending on who is where and what’s hosted in what country.
Hell, a lot of that work could just be folded into the moderation groups that already monitor terrorist content, just with more added staff to tackle the fascist terrorist side of things and people who are knowledgeable of terminology and memes (memes can be used as dog whistles and to escape scrutiny, see the OK Hand) that these people use. But the important part is to stop fascists before they’re able to commit atrocities, be they mass shootings or hate rallies disguised as “protests” that get people killed.
Deny them platforms, keep them moving from site to site so they can’t set up shop, keep them guessing. It’s a game of whack-a-mole, yes, but it’s the type of whack-a-mole that we already do for other terrorists. We just need it done proactively rather than as response to a tragedy, as it so often is.
Besides the hilarious “HELP ME ELON YOU’RE MY ONLY HOPE!” part, I love all of these folks telling on themselves because they’re losing thousands and thousands of “followers” who are being banned for being either a) bots, or b) QAnon chodes, either of which are in violation of Twitter’s TOS.
And only one of these ways is true.
In a presentation document obtained and reviewed by The Daily Beast, the network pitched its ad space to potential sponsors by laying out internal data suggesting the negative coverage of Fox’s inflammatory, right-wing commentary does not actually harm its advertisers.
Let’s keep making that not true: trust me, the advertisers will not be fooled.
I’m sorry…
Never heard of her.
I don’t know what he did to earn it, but apparently he’s the richest man in the world now.
Oh, sorry. You said her. Every time I hear her name I’m reminded that she was an actress in something I’ve seen, and can never quite remember…looking it up, I guess she played the science officer in Star Trek II, and also the mother in Look Who’s Talking, which I was subjected to on a bus once.
Knowing that, you are no doubt very concerned that she might be losing followers merely because she posted in support of an insurrection.
“Here they were, a coalition of the willing: deadbeat dads, YouPorn enthusiasts, slow students, and MMA fans. They had heard the rebel yell, packed up their Confederate flags and Trump banners, and GPS-ed their way to Washington. After a few wrong turns, they had pulled into the swamp with bellies full of beer and Sausage McMuffins, maybe a little high on Adderall, ready to get it done. Like Rush Limbaugh before them, they were in search of their own Presidential Medals of Freedom, and like Donald Trump himself, they were ready to relieve themselves on the withering soul of the nation and the marble floors of the Capitol building. Out of darkness we were born and into darkness we were returning.”
Sounds like a James McMurtry song.
Add some buffalo and amphetamines…
A has-been desperately vying for attention; hence my joke about never having heard of her.
(I did watch Cheers growing up.)
I was a little put off at first at making a big joke out of it, but began to detect the rising rage as it went on.
What about Onlyfans? Surely they’ll let him keep his Onlyfans page.
He’s on OnlyFash.
Okay, that one really matters. I didn’t even consider that. And are the credit card companies, after going after Pornhub, going to ignore this?
