Twitter has been a shit show in the same way Reddit often is. There's a lot of dark places. The difference is there was once equilibrium. The good outweighed the bad and held it at bay. It was always there but now it feels emboldened.

Racism is more in the open, anti-Semitism has become common, and it's a trend in LGBT accounts to have trolls post pictures of woodchippers and imply they need to be purged. There's just tons of people who think Kanye was in the right, and now literal Nazis like Fuentes are back? Yeah. That all vastly escalated after Elon "Assassination Coordinates" Musk said he was freeing speech for all of humanity.

Shit happened before, sure, but now reports against it are largely ignored. You just see it waaay more now.

It's very much a Musk problem in that the quantity has substantially increased.

I believe Musk gutting or eliminating the departments that had been responsible for trying to curtail hate and misinformation makes the current state of Twitter a Musk problem.

Twitter was pretty nice once they asserted themselves and kicked people like Donald Trump off. Still the platform was worse off for it, the community had experienced that poison. Now with Musk, there's no brakes. It's all right wing, kill this, racist that, threaten this, its much worse. Believe it or not, there were some guide rails in the past. For example, they weren't breaking the law in germany and now they are.

Oh bull fucking shit.

Musk broke, fired, or deliberately removed every mechanism to try to curtail that shit and openly and personally invited every worst actor back on.

So fuck off with that "it's not a musk in charge problem".

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