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aleister_greynight [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 6:09:38 PM  
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It's always projection with Republicans.
 
gunga galunga [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 6:21:56 PM  
IOKIYAR
 
cameroncrazy1984 [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 6:58:11 PM  
The GOP house just can't stop being the GOP even though they have the spotlight now.
 
Irving Maimway [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 7:32:05 PM  
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OptionC [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 7:36:17 PM  
Dems: "Hey Twitter, maybe you should take down disinformation, threats and harassment"

GOP: "Hey Twitter, this tweet hurt my fee-fees, please take it down"
 
Benevolent Misanthrope [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 7:59:36 PM  

cameroncrazy1984: The GOP house just can't stop being the GOP even though they have the spotlight now.

Especially

because they have the spotlight now.  They got elected because they act this way.  The GOP voters  generally love this shiat.  The business-side GOP voters who don't love it don't give a shiat as long as the Party promises not to eat their face, to hurt "the right people" and their businesses have less regulation.
 
Naido [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 8:04:16 PM  
Were the requests honored?  Seems like the important part would be which requests, and made by whom, were honored.  Anyone can *make* a request.
 
Bootleg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 8:16:31 PM  
What conservatives think is happening:
FBI: This conservative is too popular, ban his account
Social Media: Yes, of course. Hail Athe!
FBI: Hail Athe!
What's actually happening:
Social Media: Here's another few accounts sharing CSAM
FBI: Ugh. Alright. Oh, here's a notification about hackers acting up, so you're aware.
Social Media: We'll keep an eye out.
FBI: Great.
or
FBI: Here's a subpoena for information on this one account making threats we think are legit.
Social Media: Looks right. Here's the data you requested.
FBI: Thanks.

/From an earlier, redlit thread.
 
Bith Set Me Up
2023-02-08 8:40:28 PM  
The troubles we're seeing with social media are a symptom to a bigger problem.

As Common Cause notes in its position paper, 'In 2002, more than half of TV stations in the nation's top 50 markets completely ignored state and congressional elections in their highest rated local news programs in the weeks leading up to those elections, with large station owners offering the least election coverage of all.' McChesney takes it further, saying, 'What little coverage there is, is mostly gossip, spin, and speculation, or basically what's spoon-fed to them by party elites and insiders and big shots accepting all their biases as the appropriate way to view the world. It's impossible to exaggerate just how nutritionless this so-called journalism is.' In other words, viewers of most stations get lots of Donald Trump news, but almost nothing about city council elections or even state representatives.

Additionally, Common Cause's Todd O'Boyle told The A.V. Club that 'election season is a gravy train for broadcasters,' as well, meaning that most local stations 'book record revenues for political ads.' According to O'Boyle, 'in many communities, voters are seeing more election content in the form of advertising than they are in the form of news reporting,' saying there have even been instances of local newscasts cutting their broadcasts short in order to air more political ads. With politics becoming increasingly polarized over the past 20-odd years, absence of objective local news doesn't help ease that struggle, nor does it make most people think that there's anything to be done anywhere close to home.

While some people-especially younger people-might say, 'who cares? I get my news from social media anyway,' O'Boyle points out that, 'the majority of news coverage, and particularly local news coverage, still comes from local newsrooms.' In other words, just because you saw some article about a police scandal on social media doesn't mean it wasn't uncovered by some intrepid reporter first. Additionally, says O'Boyle, 'a healthy news ecosystem' is essential if you want 'to cut through some of the viral nonsense that's getting passed around' these days."

https://www.avclub.com/the-telecommunications-act-of-1996-gave-us-shiatty-cell-1798250823
 
rzrwiresunrise
2023-02-08 8:40:50 PM  
Reminder: "shadowbanning" is what you call it when you think a tweet you posted shoulda gone viral because it's so awesome, but it doesn't, & you get really really mad that nobody likes your tweet as much as you did.
 
Kit Fister [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 8:41:21 PM  
oh, look, it's a day ending in y, and an hour and minute within 24 hour and 60 minute ranges, respectively. Yawn. Another day in the American Political Circus.
 
mongbiohazard [BareFark]
2023-02-08 8:41:30 PM  
Every.
Farking.
Time.
 
Kit Fister [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 8:41:55 PM  

rzrwiresunrise: Reminder: "shadowbanning" is what you call it when you think a tweet you posted shoulda gone viral because it's so awesome, but it doesn't, & you get really really mad that nobody likes your tweet as much as you did.


so, like, the posts of every poltab farker that gets a million funnies, triggering the posters to rage out?
 
Mad_Radhu
2023-02-08 8:42:18 PM  
Meanwhile Twitter apparently started failing bigly today.

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GoldSpider
2023-02-08 8:43:05 PM  

Naido: Were the requests honored?  Seems like the important part would be which requests, and made by whom, were honored.  Anyone can *make* a request.


I'm sure this is proof of something BIG coming, probably Friday.
 
thealgorerhythm
2023-02-08 8:44:48 PM  

Mad_Radhu: Meanwhile Twitter apparently started failing bigly today.

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It would be cool if Biden issues an executive order moving all government social media to a federal Mastodon server. EU countries and Canada have started already.
 
replacementcool
2023-02-08 8:44:52 PM  

Naido: Were the requests honored?  Seems like the important part would be which requests, and made by whom, were honored.  Anyone can *make* a request.


why would republicans, who love absolute free speech, make any requests at all?
 
Bootleg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 8:46:26 PM  

Mad_Radhu: Meanwhile Twitter apparently started failing bigly today.

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Oh, I like the WADNR account.
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Shaggy_C
2023-02-08 8:47:43 PM  

OptionC: Dems: "Hey Twitter, maybe you should take down disinformation, threats and harassment"

GOP: "Hey Twitter, this tweet hurt my fee-fees, please take it down"


Have to love that our tax dollars are going towards staffers to report tweets to moderators in the hopes that they'll get taken down. I imagine these same staffers are regularly guilty of trolling themselves and get paid for that, too.

And here we were judging Russian troll farms. *sigh*
 
Stands With A Tiny Fist [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 8:48:04 PM  

Kit Fister: rzrwiresunrise: Reminder: "shadowbanning" is what you call it when you think a tweet you posted shoulda gone viral because it's so awesome, but it doesn't, & you get really really mad that nobody likes your tweet as much as you did.

so, like, the posts of every poltab farker that gets a million funnies, triggering the posters to rage out?


Or like the two poltab farkers who are on just about everybody's ignore list, so all they can still do to be annoying is team up to funny sensible posts exactly twice, like some wisps of a ghost nobody pays any attention to.
 
Marshmallow Jones
2023-02-08 8:48:42 PM  
Dickhead Don whining about a celebrity calling him names is a separate subject from Twitter algorithms promoting certain language and tamping down other language.
 
Kumana Wanalaia
2023-02-08 8:48:54 PM  

Kit Fister: rzrwiresunrise: Reminder: "shadowbanning" is what you call it when you think a tweet you posted shoulda gone viral because it's so awesome, but it doesn't, & you get really really mad that nobody likes your tweet as much as you did.

so, like, the posts of every poltab farker that gets a million funnies, triggering the posters to rage out?


The secret I have found is to include something funny in each post.

That way if you get 100 funnies, you can tell yourself 100 people LOL'd.
 
replacementcool
2023-02-08 8:49:17 PM  

Bootleg: Mad_Radhu: Meanwhile Twitter apparently started failing bigly today.

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Oh, I like the WADNR account.
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US Consumer Product Safety Commission is my favourite government twitter account.

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rjakobi
2023-02-08 8:50:52 PM  

Kumana Wanalaia: The secret I have found is to include something funny in each post.

That way if you get 100 funnies, you can tell yourself 100 people LOL'd.


Yeah, but what if you were trying to be serious?
 
Bennie Crabtree
2023-02-08 8:51:19 PM  
If I was in politics or a corporation of any sort whatsoever, I would flag my competition's posts, all of them, every single farking last one, to be taken down or get a warning. I would do it for multiple reasons. I'd hire a staffer just for that purpose. Why? There is literally no downside and only potential gains. I don't even know why these systems aren't already gamed so hard that social media apps simply shut down because they cannot sort the partisan farkery from actual complaints with legit purpose but only middle-school typing skills.
 
mistahtom
2023-02-08 8:51:42 PM  
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jake_lex
2023-02-08 8:52:57 PM  
I expected that hearing to be a clown show today, but it was even worse than I imagined.  They pretty much proved the absolute opposite of what they were trying to prove there.

/and Trump is indeed a pussy ass biatch
 
mistahtom
2023-02-08 8:54:08 PM  

rzrwiresunrise: Reminder: "shadowbanning" is what you call it when you think a tweet you posted shoulda gone viral because it's so awesome, but it doesn't, & you get really really mad that nobody likes your tweet as much as you did.


The Twitter algorithm only lets whitelisted marketing partner accounts have their tweets go viral.
 
scanman61
2023-02-08 9:00:13 PM  

Kit Fister: rzrwiresunrise: Reminder: "shadowbanning" is what you call it when you think a tweet you posted shoulda gone viral because it's so awesome, but it doesn't, & you get really really mad that nobody likes your tweet as much as you did.

so, like, the posts of every poltab farker that gets a million funnies, triggering the posters to rage out?


I thought they were here for the hunting?
 
Shaggy_C
2023-02-08 9:03:33 PM  
Bith Set Me Up:

Yes, and? I would argue this is a natural outcome in a system where the parties have both agreed the only offices that matter are federal offices. The solution to every little problem in the country is a federal law as far as the democrats are concerned, and the republicans counter with ooga-booga we need to stop the scary federal government from having more power. Add in that making a news story about a federal candidate that you can run nationwide is far cheaper than 100s of stories about local candidates and that's where we get where we are today.
 
PlaidJaguar
2023-02-08 9:05:19 PM  

Bootleg: What conservatives think is happening:
FBI: This conservative is too popular, ban his account
Social Media: Yes, of course. Hail Athe!
FBI: Hail Athe!
What's actually happening:
Social Media: Here's another few accounts sharing CSAM
FBI: Ugh. Alright. Oh, here's a notification about hackers acting up, so you're aware.
Social Media: We'll keep an eye out.
FBI: Great.
or
FBI: Here's a subpoena for information on this one account making threats we think are legit.
Social Media: Looks right. Here's the data you requested.
FBI: Thanks.

/From an earlier, redlit thread.


Athe as in The Great Atheismo, the true deity of the Atheists?
 
FiloBato
2023-02-08 9:06:03 PM  
 The dying cries of the (r)epublican party are loud,obnoxious and absurd; However it is also music to my ears.
 
gameshowhost [OhFark]
2023-02-08 9:09:30 PM  
"Alex Stamos, Facebook's former chief of security"

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Kit Fister [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 9:10:38 PM  

scanman61: Kit Fister: rzrwiresunrise: Reminder: "shadowbanning" is what you call it when you think a tweet you posted shoulda gone viral because it's so awesome, but it doesn't, & you get really really mad that nobody likes your tweet as much as you did.

so, like, the posts of every poltab farker that gets a million funnies, triggering the posters to rage out?

I thought they were here for the hunting?


Hey, they have a weird fetish, but I don't judge or kinkshame. If outraging on the internet does it for 'em, kudos to them.
 
CCNP
2023-02-08 9:11:12 PM  
See, the MAGAts knew the Hunter Biden Laptop story was Russian disinformation, and they were the ones demanding it be censored!

Twitter has been a pawn of the GOP all along!
 
Mad_Radhu
2023-02-08 9:11:14 PM  

mistahtom: [Fark user image image 425x302]


Waiting for the worms.

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Bootleg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 9:11:38 PM  

PlaidJaguar: Bootleg: What conservatives think is happening:
FBI: This conservative is too popular, ban his account
Social Media: Yes, of course. Hail Athe!
FBI: Hail Athe!
What's actually happening:
Social Media: Here's another few accounts sharing CSAM
FBI: Ugh. Alright. Oh, here's a notification about hackers acting up, so you're aware.
Social Media: We'll keep an eye out.
FBI: Great.
or
FBI: Here's a subpoena for information on this one account making threats we think are legit.
Social Media: Looks right. Here's the data you requested.
FBI: Thanks.

/From an earlier, redlit thread.

Athe as in The Great Atheismo, the true deity of the Atheists?


No, Athe:
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/Somehow predates Atheismo as far as I can tell.
 
AcneVulgaris
2023-02-08 9:13:15 PM  

OptionC: Dems: "Hey Twitter, maybe you should take down disinformation, threats and harassment"

GOP: "Hey Twitter, this tweet hurt my fee-fees, please take it down"


Crybaby Conservatism
 
kling_klang_bed
2023-02-08 9:18:17 PM  

Stands With A Tiny Fist: Kit Fister: rzrwiresunrise: Reminder: "shadowbanning" is what you call it when you think a tweet you posted shoulda gone viral because it's so awesome, but it doesn't, & you get really really mad that nobody likes your tweet as much as you did.

so, like, the posts of every poltab farker that gets a million funnies, triggering the posters to rage out?

Or like the two poltab farkers who are on just about everybody's ignore list, so all they can still do to be annoying is team up to funny sensible posts exactly twice, like some wisps of a ghost nobody pays any attention to.


Especially when someone's talking about something tragic, and those same favorited!ers funnying a post about someone finding out they have terminal cancer, lost their child or whatnot.
 
Naido [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 9:19:18 PM  

gameshowhost: "Alex Stamos, Facebook's former chief of security"

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Has Salman Rushdie taken on an alias??
 
ZMugg [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 9:20:37 PM  

gameshowhost: "Alex Stamos, Facebook's former chief of security"

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John Stamos divorces wife Rebecca, who goes back to only having one unpronounceable last name.
 
Epicedion
2023-02-08 9:22:23 PM  
We can't survive as a society with these motherfarkers farking up everything.
 
MontanaDave
2023-02-08 9:22:44 PM  

rjakobi: Kumana Wanalaia: The secret I have found is to include something funny in each post.

That way if you get 100 funnies, you can tell yourself 100 people LOL'd.

Yeah, but what if you were trying to be serious?


That seems like a silly thing to do
 
George Santos' taint
2023-02-08 9:26:21 PM  
Nothing to say but "LOL".
 
kling_klang_bed
2023-02-08 9:29:52 PM  

kling_klang_bed: Stands With A Tiny Fist: Kit Fister: rzrwiresunrise: Reminder: "shadowbanning" is what you call it when you think a tweet you posted shoulda gone viral because it's so awesome, but it doesn't, & you get really really mad that nobody likes your tweet as much as you did.

so, like, the posts of every poltab farker that gets a million funnies, triggering the posters to rage out?

Or like the two poltab farkers who are on just about everybody's ignore list, so all they can still do to be annoying is team up to funny sensible posts exactly twice, like some wisps of a ghost nobody pays any attention to.

Especially when someone's talking about something tragic, and those same favorited!ers funnying a post about someone finding out they have terminal cancer, lost their child or whatnot.


Wait, whaaaaaa........... when did they start censoring the word "pl-0-nker"?!?!
 
Oysterman
2023-02-08 9:34:06 PM  
But former Trump administration officials and Twitter employees tell Rolling Stone that the White House's Teigen tweet demand was hardly an isolated incident: The Trump administration and its allied Republicans in Congress routinely asked Twitter to take down posts they objected to - the exact behavior that they're claiming makes President Biden, the Democrats, and Twitter complicit in an anti-free speech conspiracy to muzzle conservatives online.

CANCEL CULTURE!
 
Kumana Wanalaia
2023-02-08 9:42:44 PM  

rjakobi: Kumana Wanalaia: The secret I have found is to include something funny in each post.

That way if you get 100 funnies, you can tell yourself 100 people LOL'd.

Yeah, but what if you were trying to be serious?


Wanna know how i got these scars?
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-08 9:51:53 PM  
Well if the goal of this whole thing was to make "The Twitter Files" seem like an even bigger partisan-driven nothingburger, then mission accomplished.
 
cefm
2023-02-08 9:58:28 PM  
Chrissy Teigen called him a pussy-ass biatch. And they wanted it taken down!  Hahahahahahahaha!
 
DoctorCal [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 10:04:02 PM  

kling_klang_bed: kling_klang_bed: Stands With A Tiny Fist: Kit Fister: rzrwiresunrise: Reminder: "shadowbanning" is what you call it when you think a tweet you posted shoulda gone viral because it's so awesome, but it doesn't, & you get really really mad that nobody likes your tweet as much as you did.

so, like, the posts of every poltab farker that gets a million funnies, triggering the posters to rage out?

Or like the two poltab farkers who are on just about everybody's ignore list, so all they can still do to be annoying is team up to funny sensible posts exactly twice, like some wisps of a ghost nobody pays any attention to.

Especially when someone's talking about something tragic, and those same favorited!ers funnying a post about someone finding out they have terminal cancer, lost their child or whatnot.

Wait, whaaaaaa........... when did they start censoring the word "pl-0-nker"?!?!


Seems like most of the filters are butthurt fueled.
 
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