Threads backtracks flagging right-wing users for spreading disinformation

Beats the hell out of the Republicans deciding it. The Pandemic outed them.

No one needs to give big tech permission to do anything. When it serves their interests they just shove it down peoples throats no questions asked.

The only reason we're having this discussion is because right wing lies generate revenue for them so they let it happen.

The only reason there even exists an argument that curbing the spread of dangerous lies is somehow an infringement upon people's "freedom of speech" is because its a convenient scapegoat for platforms to justify not doing something about it and for the bad actors to keep on doing it and face no repercussion.

IMO, when it comes down to it, Facebook is a company, and they can censor their web site however they want to.

It is not the tech companies deciding that is the problem, it is the people giving them the authority to decide for them.

Edit: // Official American

I was anti-defederate until now. I've always thought "fuck them," but this is what I needed to say we should cut them out of the fediverse. Boot lickers.

Yeah, I largely agree. I know there are people that are concerned about Mastadon's growth, but honestly the biggest thing preventing Mastadon from growing is that normies find federation to be confusing and stupid and small Mastadon instances have bad discoverability.

No, they just make bad political decisions.

The prerequisite to identify yourself as a right-winger is to have a severe deficit in basic problem solving skills and the ability to logically deconstruct misinformation. While they're not all inherently bad people, they are absolutely being manipulated by some of the worst people this world has to offer and I say that without a grain of hyperbolism. The sheer amount of self-contradictions and hypocrisy that comes from right wing outlets makes my head spin but is often completely overlooked or willfully ignored by those who are made to support those positions out of fear or anger.

Conservatives are widely victims of the upper class mass-generating misinformation to keep people distracted on culture wars so they don't notice the desperate need for a class war. Socialism is compared to Communism, Communism is compared to the USSR, somehow reviving The Red Scare and in the next breath will praise Putin for the unprovoked slaughter of Ukrainians because 'that's what a strong leader does'. All of which is done to distract from policies that would make the rich less rich by making some of the worst possible takes. The mere fact gas stoves was actually turned into a culture war speaks volumes about how little these idiots need to generate outrage.

I pity them more than anything but I'm not immune to getting irrationally angry at the terminally stupid.

That depends on your definition of "right winger." Your average Republican is likely a fine person, but your average fascist isn't. If you:

• support Jan 6 rioters
• believe in QAnon
• believe in phrenology
• think we should have less immigration

You're probably not a good person. But if you merely believe in smaller government and think the GOP will give that to you, then you're probably fine. I don't have a problem with people who support the GOP (I do have a problem with the GOP itself), but I do have a problem with the right wing of the GOP and especially the few who the GOP consider "too radical" for the party.

The same is true for the left end of the spectrum as well. Basically, once you go too far down one end of the spectrum, there's a good chance you're self-selecting as a bad person.

If you want to use the might of government to right some "social wrong," we're probably not going to agree. Government should merely exist to maintain order and protect the vulnerable, it shouldn't be used to regiment society in any real way.

I'm not really heartbroken for Threads, just identifying market trends. Right-wingers aren't bad people inherently, but right-wing policies and political organizations are absolutely far worse than their centrist and left-wing equivalents.

Yes, the group that's actively destroying civil rights are the good guys!!

Yes they are

Personal morality alignment aside, the fact is those who support right wing policies and candidates, and those who identiy as 'right wingers' either explicitly or implicitly support right wing policies. These have time and time again been shown in practice to widen the inequality gap, suppress wages and purchasing power for non-capital owners, disproportionately reward corporate greed, roll back regulations put in place to preserve general health and welfare, decrease healthcare access and standards (same with education), disenfranchise minorities...etc.

I'm sure you love to live in your own bubble. Go outside and experience the real world for once. If you are so blind that you can't see you're being manipulated then there's nothing I can do about that.