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<\/p>\nI was on Twitter for a number of years. I kept the twitter account long after I blew away the Facebook account.<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t remember when I finally got tired of increasing censorship on Twitter, but at some point (Perhaps in 2019 or 2020?) I closed my account and walked away from social media altogether.<\/p>\n
At first I really missed the burning bag of shit delivered to my phone all the time, but after 4 weeks or so I didn\u2019t miss it anymore.<\/p>\n
Thinking about it now, I didn\u2019t miss the worry. Every time I thought about responding to a post I worried that I would be put in Twitter Jail or banned outright.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Those of you who\u2019ve read a number of posts in this blog and who are also on Twitter or Facebook can probably see why that would be. I may be wrong in what I post but it\u2019s wrong in innocence, not out of malice. Twitter wasn\u2019t making that subtle distinction so eventually I simply stopped tweeting at all.<\/p>\n
There was no speaking out against things that The Majority<\/strong>\u00a0agreed with, (Even if it was incorrect on its face). Mis-information seemed to become subjective. When people asked about\u00a0why<\/em> something was deemed mis-information often they were ignored.\u00a0<\/p>\n Some people like Jordan Peterson had their accounts suspended for speaking a simple truth regarding Ellen\/Elliot Page. He was told that if he recanted his statement and apologized for speaking the truth, he would be permitted to return to the platform. Peterson categorically refused. He pick this hill to die on, He publicly said, \u201cI would rather die than apologize for speaking truth.”<\/p>\n While I don\u2019t always agree with Peterson, I respected his stance on this issue. Truth is truth!<\/p>\n Since Elon Musk has assumed control of Twitter, there have been changes. Most publicly, there have been Hollywood Types \u00a0bailing on the platform. On balance, the actual number of users of Twitter has increased.<\/p>\n Twitter\u2019s moderation seems to be changing a bit. People are saying things that less than a year ago would have gotten them banned. (I\u2019ve been skimming the Twitter website without an account,) some of what I\u2019ve been reading is much like the dumpster fire that Twitter had become prior to Musk\u2019s takeover. Liberals are still able to say horrific things and suffer no penalties. Conservatives are still being fact checked but they\u2019re not being banned as they were.<\/p>\n For me the question is, “has Twitter changed enough?”<\/p>\n I don\u2019t think the changes are sufficient for me to create a new account.\u00a0<\/p>\n Frankly, I don\u2019t really want to allow every village idiot from the entire world to spill their bullshit across my phone screen.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was on Twitter for a number of years. I kept the twitter account long after I blew away the Facebook account. I don\u2019t remember when I finally got tired of increasing censorship on Twitter, but at some point (Perhaps in 2019 or 2020?) I closed my account and walked away from social media altogether. … <\/p>\n