I just deactivated my Twitter account with the news of the sale to Elon Musk. This is what happened to me shortly before: I didn't have a ton of followers, maybe around 450 or so. I mainly used the account to amplify progressive talking points by retweeting. Occasionally, I would make favorable comments on Biden's posts or Pelosi's or the like. Inevitably, when I did the latter, a troll would insult me. I expected it and ignored them, until the day one charming guy flamed me in an over-the-top screed (for telling Biden I appreciated his efforts) and ended by calling me a c**t. I decided to report him to Twitter just to spare anyone else his bile, who did in fact find him in violation of the TOS for Hateful Conduct. Two days later, someone hacked into my FB account, disabled the recovery phone number feature, and had my zombie account violate FB's TOS, which then shut down the account permanently.
The next time I posted on Twitter (and mind you, I was small potatoes, maybe even teeny potatoes), a swarm of Russian trolls piled on with a vengeance. The hacking of my FB account might have been coincidence, and I don't know how they would have known which account to go after, but it was a very strange coincidence. In any case, I'm off both platforms now. I doubt I will try to open a new account with FB, given what they've done to undermine democracy, and I was thinking about getting off anyway.
The right wing COULD NOT get their own Twitter into anything resembling success, so they finally got the notoriously thin-skinned and vituperative Elon Musk to buy it. I read one time that someone who had ordered a Tesla said something unflattering about Musk on social media and Musk canceled his order. Personally. How he finds the time to scan the Internet for anything unflattering blows me away. Then again, he probably has his people doing it for him.
I agree with you that Twitter under Musk has every possibility for turning into a nightmare. It was already unfriendly and dicey for women, POC, and LGBTQ. But given how much of mainstream media is owned by conservative corporate interests, it was nice to have something like Twitter to serve as something of a balancing influence. The fascists are leaving no stone unturned, it would seem, in their efforts to turn American society into a dystopia.
Elon's dystopian libertarian fantasy dalliance with free speech in the world of stupid is Ayn Rand's dream come true. The Idiocracy will not be stopped.
I just deactivated my Twitter account with the news of the sale to Elon Musk. This is what happened to me shortly before: I didn't have a ton of followers, maybe around 450 or so. I mainly used the account to amplify progressive talking points by retweeting. Occasionally, I would make favorable comments on Biden's posts or Pelosi's or the like. Inevitably, when I did the latter, a troll would insult me. I expected it and ignored them, until the day one charming guy flamed me in an over-the-top screed (for telling Biden I appreciated his efforts) and ended by calling me a c**t. I decided to report him to Twitter just to spare anyone else his bile, who did in fact find him in violation of the TOS for Hateful Conduct. Two days later, someone hacked into my FB account, disabled the recovery phone number feature, and had my zombie account violate FB's TOS, which then shut down the account permanently.
The next time I posted on Twitter (and mind you, I was small potatoes, maybe even teeny potatoes), a swarm of Russian trolls piled on with a vengeance. The hacking of my FB account might have been coincidence, and I don't know how they would have known which account to go after, but it was a very strange coincidence. In any case, I'm off both platforms now. I doubt I will try to open a new account with FB, given what they've done to undermine democracy, and I was thinking about getting off anyway.
The right wing COULD NOT get their own Twitter into anything resembling success, so they finally got the notoriously thin-skinned and vituperative Elon Musk to buy it. I read one time that someone who had ordered a Tesla said something unflattering about Musk on social media and Musk canceled his order. Personally. How he finds the time to scan the Internet for anything unflattering blows me away. Then again, he probably has his people doing it for him.
I agree with you that Twitter under Musk has every possibility for turning into a nightmare. It was already unfriendly and dicey for women, POC, and LGBTQ. But given how much of mainstream media is owned by conservative corporate interests, it was nice to have something like Twitter to serve as something of a balancing influence. The fascists are leaving no stone unturned, it would seem, in their efforts to turn American society into a dystopia.
Elon's dystopian libertarian fantasy dalliance with free speech in the world of stupid is Ayn Rand's dream come true. The Idiocracy will not be stopped.