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Social media platforms are a cesspool because people hide behind a computer and are not in front of your face. If most of these people were in front of you, they wouldn’t say half of what they say on social media.

With that being said, I believe in free speech, whether I like what someone is saying or not, and we should not be policing it unless there is a valid threat made against someone or a group of people.

Once upon a time there used to be things that if you didn’t like you didn’t read it, you didn’t look at it, You didn’t listen to it, but now people are screaming because you don’t agree with them as if everyone should agree.

I do believe family members disagree, but they still love each other and they can still have conversations with each other. I honestly don’t understand the concept of everyone having to agree with what someone else says.

Maybe our media and our government should stop being so divisive and maybe some of this would cool down a little bit because a lot of this comes from both of those places.

With all of that being said, I for one stay off most of social media because of some of the vile things said or the it’s all about me mentality and that is for all of the platforms not just on X formerly Twitter.

Lastly, who are the powers that be that get to decide what misinformation or hate speech is? This is now deemed as “I don’t agree with you”, so you’re spreading misinformation or hate speech. Is Our lying government and media or some other biased person to decide this?

People should honestly understand that our government and media are not looking out for them nor are they being honest and unbiased! Just remember what these people did during Covid and how they silenced anyone questioning the narrative!

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Was on Twitter from 2008 until 2023. Was really great for a while there. But now it is best summed up by this graphic:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/06/edith-pritchett-cartoon-twitter-x/

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I love that graphic. I think they drastically underrepresented the amount of bots though.

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Definitely underrepresented the sexbots. Last I checked that was like 90% of my following.

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At least with the sexbots, I know what they're up to, trying to sell me something like everything else on the internet now. It's the ones with no links, nothing in their bio, and no tweets. I think it's just Twitter trying to boost its user count or some sorta data scraping deal, but Idk. I like to pretend it's the feds, threatened by my biting social commentary. 😂🤣😂🤣

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FBI: This Ezekiel guy has a lot to say. Dangerous things, the lot of em.

CIA: Yes, throw a sex-bot at the issue. Level-3, huge bust, aggressive monitoring.

FBI: Sir, we've already got 20 of our best, most sexed up, AI-augmented bots deployed to his account.

White House: Are they properly anonymized, with unbreakable obfuscation?

FBI, CIA, together: Yessir!! GenAI-created names and images with the usual 4-digit numeric ending for government record-keeping purposes.

Elon: Oh hey guys, checking in. Thanks for all the additional use traffic, X continues to break records!!

White House: Well done boys, get yourselves a coffee.

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This is great. In my day job I run a marketing communications firm that specializes in public policy and public interest legal work.

Sometimes it’s hard when the people who are “successful “on Twitter are screaming and yelling when an organization or an individual person is quietly doing excellent work and not acting like a crazy person.

I appreciated this piece because it kind of affirmed what I felt in my gut is that it’s OK to not be “good “it’s social media. Whether it’s for our personal lives or for our work, we can quietly build meaningful relationships in real life and cultivate a small audience on social media.

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The only time I've ever seen people in real life behave like they do on Twitter is when I sit in solidarity with my Jewish neighbors at the Austin City Council meetings. These lunatics are extremely hostile and spew obscenities at both council members and at me and my Jewish neighbors. Gosh, I wonder why the Palestinians aren't "free" yet. As if they actually cared.

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Guess you haven't met trans activists in real life. You think the lunatics you saw at the Austin City Council meetings are bad, wait till you see what happens when women (the biological kind) try to meet or say they don't want males around.

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I agree. Twitter is a cesspool but there’s lots of good people on there. You are on the most unbiased people on there!

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This article does a wonderful job of encapsulating why Zaid has always been of my favorite twitter follows. Folks come side ways at him with all kinds of crazy crap, and I don't think I've ever seen him resort to name calling, insults, or ad hoc/ad homenim attacks. That's no small feat.

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I've been on Twitter since 2010 and I disagree.

Calling what happens on 'X' "hate" reminds me of an earlier time on social media when perpetual 14-year-olds responded to any degree or kind of disagreement with "Haters gonna hate".

It was juvenile then and it's juvenile now. Not to mention hate-filled.

There are literally thousands upon thousands of people on Twitter who when confronted with the realities of the Israeli genocide in Gaza respond with "But what about October 7?" These people are racist monsters who devalue the lives of Palestinians because they are neither Jewish nor white.

Where is the hate in calling for Yaweh to dump a steaming load of feces on the heads of these brutes?

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Your well reasoned response has convinced me that Zaid is a homosexual cat eater.

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Here is a sad ol’ Troll w/ handle created today with sad attempt to increase racial tension. America’s story from the very start and until now is one of demographic turnover. It’s literally our strength. I’m proud to call Zaid Jilani a fellow American.

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I second what Matt L wrote.

I personally struggle with any concept of free speech that allows creepy clowns like the above to spew their hateful nonsense. Not because it is hateful, but because it is utterly without value and tends to suppress other voices.

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Fuck off, weirdo.

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