Post AUM01ouFNbZyFBIGSu by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
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(DIR) Post #AULfNQHTWDyvCecNlo by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T17:18:02Z
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**** Elon's Soviet style post-event alteration of Twitter policy to attack NPR ****Let's be clear what just happened. Elon Musk apparently was unhappy about at least one NPR story. So he arbitrarily slapped NPR with the "state affiliated media" label usually reserved for propaganda outlets under government editorial control like Russia's RT and the Chinese Communist Party newspaper. NPR only gets a tiny percentage of its funding from the government, which conservatives have long been trying to zero out completely. Voice of America, BBC, and "Stars and Stripes" are not so designated, despite being under government editorial control.Worse, Elon *retroactively* moved after the fact to specifically remove NPR from the section of Twitter policy that explained that outlets like BBC and NPR were not considered to be government-affiliated media.He continues to respond to official queries with a poop emoji.No media organization or advertiser is safe dealing with him. Nor is the U.S. government. End these relationships as quickly as practicable, before you regret being in bed with his twisted sensibilities.
(DIR) Post #AULfUhBj3YMJfQOevI by funmerlin@mastodon.social
2023-04-05T17:19:17Z
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@lauren the time to leave Twitter is already overdue.
(DIR) Post #AULfq7Kr2KjeqIshWa by marie_k@mstdn.social
2023-04-05T17:23:11Z
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@lauren Not just boneheaded, this move is evil.
(DIR) Post #AULg0oc8yvVZxv4N1M by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T17:25:11Z
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@funmerlin No. It is crucial to stay, to monitor, and to help people who are being attacked there, especially since there are no practical alternatives at this time for most people over there (Mastodon doesn't qualify.)
(DIR) Post #AULgYmKDzyWUiCsnTc by jlroberson@mastodon.social
2023-04-05T17:31:15Z
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@lauren The amazing thing about #ElonMusk's power over free speech: if you leave his club and go talk in a different one, he cannot stop you.Musk only has power over free speech insofar as people GRANT it to him, and his is not the only platform. Really, it's trash now. If everyone credible leaves him, he just eats 44 billion dollars he paid for a blog with the biggest comments section, him and his Nazis alone
(DIR) Post #AULgdNWTdmfLEjo6ds by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T17:32:08Z
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@jlroberson Most users there can't leave. There is nowhere with similar reach or as easy to use where they can go. Mastodon isn't it, obviously.
(DIR) Post #AULgifHF3fN3kTCZQu by jlroberson@mastodon.social
2023-04-05T17:33:03Z
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@lauren I disagree, obviously.
(DIR) Post #AULgrsAEVw2iK5JXHc by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T17:34:44Z
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@jlroberson I've basically stopped recommending new people sign up here. I'm tired of hearing back about onboarding problems (even from highly technical people) and the HATE spewed on people here who don't fit "the preferred profile". Not to mention the technical problems that there's no interest in actually fixing. Mastodon is a toy. A *fun* toy to be sure. But just a toy.
(DIR) Post #AULhChPnfoaJ4DWhHc by funmerlin@mastodon.social
2023-04-05T17:38:28Z
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@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.or sure, and I agree. But if I ran a business, I'd have to think twice about tying my success to theirs.
(DIR) Post #AULhGq43SQtZ3CKSZM by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2023-04-05T17:39:04Z
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@lauren Please keep referring to Musk actions as Soviet style. In fact call all "anti commie" billionaires Stalinists. Because they need the mockery and we need to utterly rubbish the false dichotomy Call a spade a spade. Totalitarian despots. Plutocratic rule has but one shape.
(DIR) Post #AULhIgzm9AnrVEDAMi by vk2bea@mastodon.radio
2023-04-05T17:39:22Z
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@lauren I would dispute that the UK Government exercises editorial control of the BBC. Its work is governed by the royal charter and complaints are are dealt with by Ofcom, just as complaints about U.S. broadcasters are made to the FCC.
(DIR) Post #AULhW2DWYYBp5M0K6y by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T17:42:00Z
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@vk2bea From what I've seen, government control over funding of the BBC has *dramatic* effects on programming. Unlike NPR which has a tiny bit of government funding, what percentage of the BBC's funding is from the government? Uh, yeah. Money talks.
(DIR) Post #AULhXhChebjYUdPcdE by jlroberson@mastodon.social
2023-04-05T17:42:17Z
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@lauren Maybe it's because I signed up a few years ago(and then didn't use it till last Oct) but I never saw any of these issues with servers. I only had to sign in. But I don't doubt others have.It doesn't change that Musk only has power over speech that others grant him, and that if credible people leave the platform its worth is nil.
(DIR) Post #AULhsdSWlvdmxanaVM by vk2bea@mastodon.radio
2023-04-05T17:46:02Z
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@lauren Funding comes from licence fees for domestic BBC services. The licence fee is set by the Government though.(World Service used to be paid for by a Foreign Office fund, so that is certainly more direct).Funding is one thing but that is NOT editorial control.
(DIR) Post #AULiKXl7YgRvOEnrfc by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T17:51:07Z
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@vk2bea I disagree. Funding is control.
(DIR) Post #AULjPGDUJAgANvsv6e by DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange
2023-04-05T18:03:08Z
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@lauren Can I ask what the onboarding problems actually are? I feel like a Google search for "[marginalized community] safe Mastodon" has decent enough results from places like Reddit that would point people in the right direction. Besides some sort of 'front door' to the service, asking users to do that seems like a solve to the biggest onboarding issue I can imagine.Personally, I followed like-minded people out, so it was 'easy' for me to just... see where they were going, then go check that place out and read the community standards.
(DIR) Post #AULkGCSX0aos50AHD6 by markwyner@mas.to
2023-04-05T18:12:40Z
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@lauren @funmerlin the platform belongs to him. It’s his living room. If you use it, you support it. There’s no democracy or helping people there. It’s a corporate dictatorship. You can’t protest against the owner of a privately-owned platform. He can and literally does what he wants.I don’t criticize people for staying. Or for those who don’t like Mastodon. But I think it’s misguided to think people have power to counter what someone does with their own product when they don’t care about you.
(DIR) Post #AULkgrC2BQo5wW9wUS by evopma@ecoevo.social
2023-04-05T18:17:29Z
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@lauren although the BBC is under excessive pressure from the UK government at present it is not completely under government editorial control (phew)
(DIR) Post #AULl0PcWPM8yDdsD2m by fionor@mas.to
2023-04-05T18:21:03Z
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@lauren at this point people and organisations still present on Twitter could only blame themselves.They had enough time to move.
(DIR) Post #AULleEGa2ad4aZb37w by Yomoma@mastodon.social
2023-04-05T18:28:16Z
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@lauren Spoken like a true loser.
(DIR) Post #AULmEFwHIdnECXHNdg by voron@mstdn.party
2023-04-05T18:34:47Z
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@lauren there is a reason the U.S. taxed the hell out of the rich in multiple ways made stock buy backs illegal and had multiple other guardrails against the massive accumulation of private wealth after the great economic crash all undone starting during the Reagan administration..When individuals become as wealthy as states democracies die
(DIR) Post #AULmc4cr0ura40YDvE by serklarvel@mastodon.social
2023-04-05T18:39:07Z
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@lauren @jlroberson every week, #mastodon gets 300 thousand users and they are at least smart enough to understand what an instance is. It's a good and sizeable community. Texas Observer was saved by Mastodon users, for example.
(DIR) Post #AULnstkymG8HEOwDZY by Renegade_GDI@mastodon.world
2023-04-05T18:53:18Z
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@lauren well at least that never violated 1A, and any private company could go spread disinfo and that's what we see right now!
(DIR) Post #AULpRystnvqtDxw240 by MrShoggoth@toot.community
2023-04-05T19:10:51Z
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@lauren @jlroberson - I’ve had none of those problems. I’ve been here for 4 months or so and I enjoy it quite a bit. If yer on the bird platform you’re paying Elmo with yer eyeballs. That’s fine - it’s yer life - but pretending yer doing it out of some kind of altruism is nonsense.
(DIR) Post #AULpW2cdqia7yWGbi4 by shnorman@mindly.social
2023-04-05T19:11:37Z
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@lauren @sgtgary Twitter should be shuttered.
(DIR) Post #AULqHAfrjJMUYgFRPU by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T19:20:07Z
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@markwyner @funmerlin Because of his vast entanglements with U.S. government contracts and their ethics clauses, his behavior is not entirely without recourse.
(DIR) Post #AULqZJocTvos7bzokC by MrShoggoth@toot.community
2023-04-05T19:15:46Z
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@DarcMoughty @lauren - I’d guess it’s having to pick a server with zero information on which to choose and figuring out the difference between Home and the Fediverse streams. Also, some apps are just inferior. It wasn’t that difficult to overcome, but I had the added encouragement of hating Musk’s guts.
(DIR) Post #AULqZKNMOlbnrMFYtU by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T19:23:23Z
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@MrShoggoth @DarcMoughty Most people don't have time to screw around with that stuff. Seriously, it's a tautology supreme to call Mastodon onboarding anything other than a hot mess.
(DIR) Post #AULqkJHCpGK9dTblLc by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-04-05T19:25:23Z
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@lauren yes, while the widespread misapprehension of the difference between 'public' and 'state' media (which is actually a difference) becomes harder to resolve. but is fodder for low-information contrarians who want their prejudices confirmed.
(DIR) Post #AULrCPfYeQrxZSOo9g by MrShoggoth@toot.community
2023-04-05T19:30:14Z
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@lauren @DarcMoughty - Shrug. If you have time to sit on Twitter for 6 hours a day, you’ve got time for it. You may not want to expend the time, of course.
(DIR) Post #AULtFnjXpwuayx0Vt2 by panamared27401@mstdn.social
2023-04-05T19:53:25Z
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@lauren @markwyner @funmerlin Oh, you think someone's actually gonna hold him accountable. That's sweet.
(DIR) Post #AULtJ9qU583KQhqza4 by humansriseup@ioc.exchange
2023-04-05T19:54:08Z
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@lauren USA politicians and media need to abandon Twitter. Not the voice of We, The People. Elon brings apartheid from his birthplace to Twitter. Bans all opposition. Who would stick around? Clueless and kneebenders.
(DIR) Post #AULtTQKFfDlQRCfkHI by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T19:55:59Z
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@humansriseup There is nowhere else to go currently with anything like similar reach and ease of use. Organizations that need to reach large viewerships are stuck for now, and assuming they are clueless or kneebenders is unfair at best.
(DIR) Post #AULtaM83fJVbRuH4yG by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T19:57:16Z
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@panamared27401 @markwyner @funmerlin It's doable. In fact, there are already efforts to avoid key lock-in contracts in certain sectors related to his firms.
(DIR) Post #AULtjCAU4L3rA7ckpk by markwyner@mas.to
2023-04-05T19:58:49Z
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@lauren @funmerlin as a preface, I should have been clear that I’m not intending to attack you with this. Just making sure it’s clear that I’m not picking a fight. But I’m yet to see anyone present any evidence that he can be held accountable in any way.Labeling media as an enemy of the state is a core element of fascism and dictatorships. And with their new algorithms that define tweet authors as republicans/democrats exacerbates this.So how can/is he held accountable? What is the recourse?
(DIR) Post #AULtmxl3aTlDd1Wkgi by panamared27401@mstdn.social
2023-04-05T19:59:29Z
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@lauren @markwyner @funmerlin I'll believe he'll suffer consequences for this when I see him suffer consequences for this. If there's anything the past eight years have taught us, it's that what's supposed to happen very often does not happen when the people involved are rich white fascists.
(DIR) Post #AULtw6TcXZiNH8jKjI by humansriseup@ioc.exchange
2023-04-05T20:01:10Z
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@lauren Reading fascist ideology or sexists photos? Is okay? Twitter is garbage. Purposely turn into Trumpland. Enjoy.
(DIR) Post #AULujyileN2jhVb5cG by Rafa60@mastodon.world
2023-04-05T20:10:08Z
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@lauren l am no longer a Twitter user since Elon's takeover
(DIR) Post #AULv3n70WQ5ZUINmt6 by kegill@mastodon.social
2023-04-05T20:13:45Z
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I’m guessing it was the decision not to stream Trump’s speech live.
(DIR) Post #AULvu8EJFf3I2dkwHw by Diamondjoy@mastodon.world
2023-04-05T20:23:07Z
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@lauren People in journalism and running media are not stupid, so it's by design. Nothing is verifiable there anymore. It's a choice to stay and bow to Heil Elmo for whatever reason. No getting around it.It. Is. A. Choice.
(DIR) Post #AULxsbsaFBtZKLzojg by YogaLamb@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-04-05T20:45:17Z
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@lauren Here’s a screenshot. While I am loathe to post anything twitter, in this case it seems important. #twitter #NPR #propaganda
(DIR) Post #AULyh2qwEPaVSmH9o8 by templarknight@ieji.de
2023-04-05T20:54:20Z
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@lauren #NYTimes, #NPR...all these news organizations and their journalists should just move to #mastodon
(DIR) Post #AULyniHT7HCtgerg00 by S3R0@mastodon.social
2023-04-05T20:55:39Z
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@lauren it's insane that we live in a world where an individual can have enough wealth to shape media and protect fascists while suppressing journalists. We've lived in that world for a long time, of course, it's just never been as out in the open as it is now with Elon and his apartheid, emerald mine cash. Obviously he only used that to pull himself up by his gilded bootstraps, a real rags to riches kind of guy.
(DIR) Post #AUM01ouFNbZyFBIGSu by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T21:09:20Z
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@templarknight For a microscopic reach compared with Twitter, and not even being able to be sure that every reply to every post is even received? Not gonna happen. Oh yeah, some will come here, but they'll stay on Twitter too, because that's where most readers are. And will be. Until there's a viable and simple to use alternative.
(DIR) Post #AUM03dHVZUjall2QGu by jagatshah@mastodon.world
2023-04-05T21:08:37Z
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@markwyner @lauren @funmerlin Well said. Twitter is a private company implementing one man's (arbitrary) rules. It is *NOT* a public town square that promotes civil discourse and exchange of ideas. If it were, I would agree with Laura's reasoning for the need to stay and protect the principle of free speech.In my opinion, to stay on that platform or further engage with Twitter only benefits Musk and furthers mainstreaming his imposed view points. Nothing else.
(DIR) Post #AUM03drfP3eqZtxIdE by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T21:09:51Z
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@jagatshah @markwyner @funmerlin Who is Laura? You referring to this guy?
(DIR) Post #AUM0IR7J5629NxKEoy by jagatshah@mastodon.world
2023-04-05T21:12:24Z
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@lauren @markwyner @funmerlin apologies. I meant you 😊Typo. I've corrected now
(DIR) Post #AUM0UGSwVVsNpK5MoK by OGjester@stranger.social
2023-04-05T21:14:32Z
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@lauren WHY IS ANYONE STILL PRETENDING TWITTER IS A SERIOUS THING???
(DIR) Post #AUM0Zb1PVZWl1mkYLo by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T21:15:33Z
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@OGjester Because it has many, many millions of users who depend on it and have not found a suitable alternative with similar reach and ease of use.
(DIR) Post #AUM0mkb3DjIMUKh1YO by OGjester@stranger.social
2023-04-05T21:17:53Z
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@lauren watching people cling to such an obvious joke of a website is just sad at this point.
(DIR) Post #AUM2mHKCFhenbyiD7Q by AvonVilla@aus.social
2023-04-05T21:40:02Z
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@lauren Are there really all that many people who "need" twitter and can find no alternative? Whatever the numbers, it might be better for everyone to leave to help create viable alternatives. Even if you "need" twitter, there comes a time when staying there does more harm than good.
(DIR) Post #AUM3jMl7gugbYETw8m by Anderholm@mastodon.nz
2023-04-05T21:50:56Z
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@lauren @funmerlin Hmm. Nope. All you’re doing is helping him keep the damn thing viable.
(DIR) Post #AUM4DeAXWfIWEboEqm by TomMarcinko@wandering.shop
2023-04-05T21:56:20Z
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@lauren NPR is just too damned polite to say fascist.
(DIR) Post #AUM4GPGpNIvstd4AtM by Colby@mastodon.world
2023-04-05T21:56:53Z
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@lauren @jlroberson I’ve seen you do this in multiple threads - ie move from elon bashing to mastodon bashing. It’s tiresome. I’ll block myself now, lol
(DIR) Post #AUM4e1TBW6hU1u6iPI by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T22:00:43Z
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@Colby @jlroberson Excellent.
(DIR) Post #AUM4refT5fbtMhLxMu by PadreWil@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-04-05T22:03:37Z
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@lauren No SANE reasonably intelligent, good Amer. OR organization should be on twitter ….. it’s twisted, ReTrumplican, Anti Amer. garbage !! 🖕🏻Musk 🖕🏻twitter
(DIR) Post #AUM5FD8h5oUiw8Fuca by IAmDannyBoling@mstdn.social
2023-04-05T22:07:51Z
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@lauren It's terrifying and dangerous for any government entity to use twitter now. There are all sorts of ways he — personally — could affect their ability to communicate to their citizens, as well as break citizens' faith and trust of their leadership.
(DIR) Post #AUM6LS9iH6IPCWGy7U by redhero@famichiki.jp
2023-04-05T22:20:10Z
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@lauren almost like he correctly assessed that the US media is spineless and will put up with anything because their rich owners don’t care and lack principles
(DIR) Post #AUM70aJ6s8ygM6HTnM by havvyhh2@mas.to
2023-04-05T22:27:34Z
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@lauren @funmerlin Ok, but that seems a self-fulfilling caution. I have thought for a while, though not sure it is feasible, that news sites, reporters, etc should do in reverse what I see many do in linking their twitter posts into Mastodon. Keep their twitter accts which only reposts from Mastodon...but make the real juice & comments & discussion happen in Mastodon. Can't think staying on a scuttled ship makes any sense....imho.
(DIR) Post #AUM8cEpJHjauh0rQhs by keithmcgrath@mastodon.social
2023-04-05T22:45:43Z
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@lauren is he doing it for a bet?
(DIR) Post #AUM8wkLVo3YiEwharI by Setok@attractive.space
2023-04-05T22:49:19Z
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@lauren it’s not necessarily fully correct to state that the #BBC is under government editorial control. The government gives it the right to charge TV license fees, but it does not have a day to day editorial role. This relationship has been strained on multiple occasions.
(DIR) Post #AUM9S53ypX21TERWmu by vruz@mastodon.social
2023-04-05T22:55:02Z
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@lauren Of course Nazis still hate having lost WII against the Soviet Union.
(DIR) Post #AUM9Tnaalk6Lr4W4Ku by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-05T22:55:07Z
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@Setok I'm thinking in terms of the effects of effectively the entire BBC budget being from the government. There's no way that doesn't impact content.
(DIR) Post #AUM9xIC240DRAY5mU4 by Setok@attractive.space
2023-04-05T23:00:38Z
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@lauren actually it comes from TV license fees. Not tax budget. This was done intentionally with the BBC precisely to remove government oversight on content. They wanted to avoid the vulgarity of commercial channels, but also avoid being a state propaganda machine. I’m not saying a government can’t influence the BBC, but the impact is much more indirect than places that have direct government run state broadcasters.
(DIR) Post #AUMDR9Kxr0IyFkCNvs by MALyons@mstdn.party
2023-04-05T23:39:35Z
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@lauren @jlroberson I think there are Mastodon, Spoutible, Post and Tribel that I know about. Probably others. Maybe if everyone left Twitter/Meta for something else, there would be more incentive for these smaller platforms to work together and provide a way to maintain that larger “audience”/provide protections/recreate the virtual community of the big sites.
(DIR) Post #AUMGPRiQqsCqXJ3Sq0 by IAmDannyBoling@mstdn.social
2023-04-06T00:12:56Z
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@lauren @templarknight Smart companies will start posting to *both* twitter and Masto, and promote the latter over the former. Over time (a short time, I hope), as people migrate (and they will migrate, I think), enough eyeballs will be on Masto toots that twitter is irrelevant.
(DIR) Post #AUMHqzry4ojeEeDTVo by punko@kolektiva.social
2023-04-06T00:29:09Z
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@lauren @funmerlin enable much?
(DIR) Post #AUMKyFPD0nE2JEuhCi by Mary625@newsie.social
2023-04-06T01:03:57Z
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@lauren @funmerlin Baloney. Sorry but that's just, well, baloney. They don't have to go elsewhere to leave and yes, this is an alternative.Twitter is now just a fascist place, run by the biggest narcissist alive. Yes, bigger than the other one
(DIR) Post #AUMPu0o9qK6FeFNnU0 by ShrikeTron@techie.community
2023-04-06T01:59:03Z
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@lauren Elmo is 4.5%? funded by the Saudis. So…
(DIR) Post #AUMPweNDi5zwwC2bGS by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T01:59:55Z
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@ShrikeTron I had the same thought earlier today.
(DIR) Post #AUMPyQbXsEoioTaarg by HiwayRobyn@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T02:00:03Z
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@lauren @funmerlin it's an open sewer there, you can't protect anyone. Some people like it or make money and refuse to leave. Forget them.
(DIR) Post #AUMQ38N75em3iH5BuS by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T02:01:00Z
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@HiwayRobyn @funmerlin I care enough about ordinary, busy, often (but not always) nontechnical people to refuse your point of view.
(DIR) Post #AUMQUjU1DdwadATMie by ygalanter@hachyderm.io
2023-04-06T02:05:54Z
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@laurenThe White House said they weren't going to pay Musk for the verified checkmark.Can't wait for Musk to label their account "state affiliated".
(DIR) Post #AUMQWRiYF4YI6w5T5U by HiwayRobyn@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T02:06:14Z
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@lauren @funmerlin Well, I sure don't see these mythical people any more. I went back and every single account that I followed that wasn't a huge political one is gone. The rest seem to enjoy sparring with the Russians and bots that make up that platform now. I don't think that kind needs your "protection"
(DIR) Post #AUMQbjmoUSqxb8bVGi by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T02:07:16Z
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@HiwayRobyn @funmerlin A lot of individuals have left or dialed back. But a lot of very good organizations (and firms) are royally stuck, as are their members and customers who depend on them.
(DIR) Post #AUMQotqwNH0WaEoJzU by HiwayRobyn@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T02:09:34Z
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@lauren so what are you going to do, support all of them? What are you, Super Twitter Woman? It sounds like you have a savior complex about people that you think are helpless, and what is left there are not helpless, they like it. Its kind of freaky.
(DIR) Post #AUMQt2zKLrQA4fi9FA by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T02:10:24Z
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@HiwayRobyn Well, first off, if you bothered to check my profile before mouthing off, you'd see I'm a guy, not a woman. But obviously that's beyond you.
(DIR) Post #AUMR2kPgGebZMRfBGC by enmodo@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T02:10:59Z
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@ygalanter @lauren there's simply no need for them to be on any social media IMO. Post stuff on their own RSS feed and let we the people post links to it. Heck they could even create their own dot gov Activity Pub instance... How about that?
(DIR) Post #AUMR2kskWZrCobGOZM by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T02:12:09Z
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@enmodo @ygalanter As much as I depend on RSS (and in fact, about 90% of my online news, if not more, reaches me that way via Inoreader) 99% of the Internet doesn't even know that it exists. And in fact, it probably would be dead now, if WP didn't generate an RSS feed by default automatically!
(DIR) Post #AUMRBPZ99AFjJJDp4K by HiwayRobyn@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T02:13:23Z
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@lauren sorry, you know you have one of those names that both women and men have, like myself. Don't take it too personal. I made my account yesterday so I am A) very sure that there's very few people there that don't want to be. And B) Just learning how to use Mastodon
(DIR) Post #AUMRD3sqjQcUdxDzwO by solownh@mstdn.party
2023-04-06T02:13:26Z
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@lauren That's ironic coming from the owner of the world's largest (russian) state affiliated social media platform
(DIR) Post #AUMREhKJZLbNGNqrGy by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T02:13:56Z
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@solownh True enough.
(DIR) Post #AUMRNGOF5XFqKKlzcG by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T02:15:52Z
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@HiwayRobyn Understood. That is indeed one of the other names that fall into that grouping, along with a bunch of others that have waxed and waned in various ways over the years and decades.
(DIR) Post #AUMRRJu9xivQO0dWiG by HiwayRobyn@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T02:16:35Z
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@lauren what is your bike, a shovelhead?
(DIR) Post #AUMRWCFBs9Bu4gnaQC by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T02:17:29Z
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@HiwayRobyn The reality is that I get people all the time asking for help getting off Twitter and (until fairly recently) I routinely suggested Mastodon, but too many kept coming back having problems with onboarding or with being unwelcome once they got onboard. But hope springs eternal.
(DIR) Post #AUMRbPwyLB8K20lc0W by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T02:18:25Z
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@HiwayRobyn Yeah. AMF, unfortunately. But better than nothing.
(DIR) Post #AUMRdqJrGuZEOQd0VM by commonsensepaine@mas.to
2023-04-06T02:18:55Z
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@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.orgovernment needs to act, and so does the EU. A Fairness Doctrine reboot?
(DIR) Post #AUMRlJZ6vysH7oKE3k by HiwayRobyn@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T02:20:13Z
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@lauren I couldn't find one single one of the people that I followed! I would say the whole hashtag of cyanotype disappeared. I also enjoy mushroom picking and that hashtag has been changed to psilocybin sellers.
(DIR) Post #AUMRv8X2oK4vnl2ftA by HiwayRobyn@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T02:21:59Z
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@lauren I had a shovelhead! I recall that it was a 73, but that was a long time ago! Jeez the autocorrect here is horrific.
(DIR) Post #AUMRwlMZvGieWXvF68 by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T02:22:19Z
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@HiwayRobyn Could be worse. Could be cryptocurrency.
(DIR) Post #AUMSGNao0icqanvm64 by HiwayRobyn@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T02:25:48Z
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@lauren well, that seems to be on everyone's thread, that's for sure. The bots are worse now! I am lucky here as an older lady explained Mast. a little. I'm 60, she's 65 😆 I had signed up a couple of years ago and it was dead.
(DIR) Post #AUMSOS2lLW50iIrA5g by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T02:27:17Z
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@HiwayRobyn Yeah, Elon buying Twitter gave #Mastodon a big boost, but the overall trajectory now is more difficult to analyze.
(DIR) Post #AUMSyBNEnjZXRETI1Y by HiwayRobyn@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T02:33:40Z
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@lauren I left, felt better, the constant arguing with maga made me sick. Then because of Trump, I went back to swim in maga tears. But after awhile, there were just 2 accounts that I used to follow. I wonder if maga will leave if it becomes another Truth Social or Parler?
(DIR) Post #AUMjgs0bFHXnfzDHqS by KarenStrickholm@mastodon.online
2023-04-06T05:41:03Z
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@lauren #NPR should sue Musk for defamation!
(DIR) Post #AUMk3zgerbeO9Oubqq by AFutureGhost@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T05:45:15Z
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@lauren He runs Twitter as his personal information fiefdom. That he replaced the bird with a dog is emblematic.
(DIR) Post #AUMo3xvnn6j4WQEmu0 by prettyhuman@piipitin.fi
2023-04-06T06:29:57Z
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@lauren @funmerlin And yet here we are on Mastodon, a practical alternative, talking about this. 😏 curious.
(DIR) Post #AUMsmVdsDRfPdHLa8u by victoriadecapua@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T07:22:57Z
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@lauren there is no point to Elon Musk. His horny little followers love to yell about how anyone who criticizes him is envious, but he hates himself and is so driven by his inadequacy that instead spending 44bn on enjoying the rest of his life however he wants, he spent it so that he can dick around with the news labels and respond to questions with poop emojis. Being Elon Musk cancels out having his wealth.
(DIR) Post #AUMymff5Ywo2QtNMVk by ggmartin@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T08:29:59Z
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@lauren I hate it as much as anyone, but he owns Twitter and is therefore free to do as he pleases.The only thing the rest of us can really do is to not use it, and, as Randall Munroe says, show him the door...https://xkcd.com/1357/
(DIR) Post #AUMzQjMtCYCJVlxu0e by SimonB@mastodon.ie
2023-04-06T08:37:26Z
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@lauren @funmerlin the people you're 'monitoring' and who are being attacked are free to leave. There's plenty of practical alternatives. If you choose to stay because of the exposure then you know that you've made a deal with the devil.
(DIR) Post #AUNQVTyCZnkNxtuMN6 by DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange
2023-04-06T13:40:37Z
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@lauren I'm just confused by how it's considered a problem and not just an intrinsic way of the thing working that facilitates its openness.Like, I had to choose an email provider, and it lets me interact with people on others. That makes sense to me. I had to choose that carefully, why is choosing a social media home base such a stretch. I think a lot of this shows that the concept of a social network as a thing from a single provider is so entrenched that people find federation jarring?
(DIR) Post #AUNSpyT75pA0FrGXEe by retrohondajunki@mstdn.social
2023-04-06T14:06:51Z
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@lauren i'd compare it to that of keying a car or stabbing a tire. 🫤 #NPR
(DIR) Post #AUNWk8kGN5w0CqlEQq by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2023-04-06T14:50:35Z
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@lauren While words and phrase change connotation all the time, words and phrases also have context. I had never even heard it used in any other way that its original meaning.Surely that phrase aimed at MUSK being referred to as STALIN is clear in context. Given his own racism, it might even be funny. Constantly allowing the far right to expropriate words for their use, hands power over to them. The gay community had/has a better idea, take the word back and even fling it in their face.
(DIR) Post #AUNXU9Cuz9Sqxc6O3M by mybarkingdogs@ohai.social
2023-04-06T09:13:15Z
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @lauren I would mostly agree, and even boosted you for a second, but please, the expression "call a s___ a s___" is racist and please edit/change that.
(DIR) Post #AUNXU9vaJ5C3C903fs by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T14:59:00Z
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@mybarkingdogs @GhostOnTheHalfShell Calling a spade a spade has no racial etymology of any kind and never has. That's not to say that there isn't ignorance of this fact by people who don't know much about word histories.
(DIR) Post #AUNXvysiyAs12nvdCq by katzenclavier@mastodon.ie
2023-04-06T09:33:06Z
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@lauren @GhostOnTheHalfShell @mybarkingdogs I tend to avoid the phrase because of the confusion, but the other common emphasized variation is “call a spade a bloody fucking shovel”, and it’s absolutely absolutely referring to a common garden tool not a person. The only connection of the phrase to the slur is a different —actually racist — phrase comparing people to the color of the shovel-shaped playing card motif♠️.
(DIR) Post #AUNXvzSAqNE6okVwSe by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2023-04-06T14:58:59Z
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@katzenclavier @lauren @mybarkingdogs By this logic everyone would stop using a standard card deck, just in case it communicate the wrong thing.
(DIR) Post #AUNXvzwJ2LKUKCc0Qa by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T15:04:01Z
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @katzenclavier @mybarkingdogs Don't get pulled into this. Anyone can take 5 seconds and learn that the phrase is not racist with a simple search. There is no requirement to go along with misinterpretations of language.
(DIR) Post #AUNZDglr8xpI2civce by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2023-04-06T15:14:20Z
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@lauren @mybarkingdogs To be fair I had never hear spade associated with POC. The fact that MUSK is a racist (etc) pig makes application of the phrase to him even more satisfying. The far right is constantly expropriating left wing words (see woke, libertarian etc). Chronically deferring to their corruptions must stop.
(DIR) Post #AUNZH6WxpFsenpO1qK by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2023-04-06T15:16:50Z
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@lauren @katzenclavier @mybarkingdogs Already done. :)I am less interested in this specific instance and more interested in ending the reflex of “the left” to retiring words because racist shit heels make an association. It’s giving them power over language I would no ever concede to them.
(DIR) Post #AUNZZjeh6FLRMGt0kK by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T15:22:28Z
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @katzenclavier @mybarkingdogs And don't get me started on issues of "misappropriation" of classic works of art (and I don't mean in the physical sense).
(DIR) Post #AUNbVDHnhojhiV9KYC by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2023-04-06T15:43:49Z
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@lauren @katzenclavier @mybarkingdogs Indeed. Imma go stare at David for a while.
(DIR) Post #AUNcSBn4uS5QADtvsm by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-04-06T15:54:38Z
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @katzenclavier @mybarkingdogs Don't overdo it.
(DIR) Post #AUNhCOm3MwkXZKiBGq by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2023-04-06T16:47:43Z
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@lauren @katzenclavier @mybarkingdogs hmm? (still staring at David)... 😂
(DIR) Post #AUNwsqnp34cFyNEvei by enmodo@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T19:43:36Z
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@lauren @ygalanter I know, it's freekin sad isn't it? I wonder if you could seamlessly marry ActivityPub with RSS so Mastodon could let you follow any RSS feed as if the publisher was a Mastodon user?