One rule for them and one rule for us.
I was watching a Lotus Eaters podcast and Sargon likened Twitter to the evil empire of Mordor. I do think he has a point. I’ve always eschewed it as being something of a cesspit of inanity and wokery. However, when it has rules regarding speech, yet allows death threats, we begin to see what lies beneath.
JK Rowling’s death threat from an Iran-supporting Islamic extremist did not violate Twitter’s rules after the vile troll warned ‘you are next’ in response to her support of stabbed author Salman Rushdie.
The British author received a harrowing threat from Meer Asif Aziz, based in Karachi, who described himself on Twitter as a ‘student, social activist, political activist and research activist’, who made tasteless ‘jokes’ about how to destroy Israel and branded it a Putin-savaged Ukraine – as well as Pakistan’s chief geopolitical rival India – ‘terrorist states’.
When you are one of Twitter’s favoured groups, anything goes, no matter how vile and no matter how criminal – because death threats are criminal and are not covered by free speech principles. However, Rowling is white and a woman, so not one of the favoured groups, and pointing out that men cannot become women is hate speech. Threatening her with death, apparently, is not.
Twitter, proving beyond all doubt (if there ever was any) that it is entirely evil.
Never used it, not once. Utter nonsense and a time-stealer.
I don’t do any social media (or the more vituperative political blogs) as they are just echo chambers, amplifying discord and anger.
There are enough alarming people in the world without encouraging them.
I was booted off Twitter for retweeting Emerald’s take on Chauvin v Floyd. Doesn’t take much.
From what you people whom I respect are saying, I am not missing much.
Much thanks for your own missives.
Why on earth are people such as JK Rowling, on twatter? It is an internet based insult and threat forum where, it seems, any moron with the IQ of a cornflake, can spout whatever bile they want, with little, apparent, censorship.
JK Rowling, and others of her ilk, are said to have thousands of followers. The answer is simple. Leave twatter and open up a blogspot with the right to delete or block hate speech.
If I were on twatter, and I’m not, I wonder if I described Aziz as a homosexual, drug and alcohol dependant, incestous paedophile, and I was going to send this accusation to every mosque in Karachi, would I be cancelled or blocked? For information, I believe he is and, when he dies, every virgin in his paradise will look like his grandmother.