The Haqqani Network, a faction of the Afghan Taliban, expressed support for Twitter, praising its freedom of speech and more tolerant content moderation policy compared to Meta.
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I really can't make a better joke than reality
The presence of Taliban on twitter was a long standing source of accusations of double standards by pre-musk twitter criticisms. As such, I don't expect many of the pro content-moderation folk to point at them right now because they know that would make them look hypocritical for turning a blind eye to it years prior.
As an outise observer, it does feel like the moderation decisions ib most platforms are heavely biased to the political optics of their company's country and region of origin. (usually silicon valley)
Angry american incels mocking fat people online? That is violence! Everybody hates incels. Specially if they are upper middle class white boys in confortable suburban lifestyles. No-brainer.
Radical Muslim Terrorist group deffending tribal wars? Uhhh, gosh darn it... Will it look xenophobic if we do anything to them? I don't want our platform to look like a bush-era musim hating redneck... They are brown people afterall... I dont wanna be seen as to be "punching down"
Of course, its the moderator's San Fran friends that would see that as punching down. I bet the guy who actually lives in the middle east being controlled with iron fists by such a terrorist group does not see the group that CONTROLS THEIR CITY as an "opressed minority".
But the 30-something moderator would need to have a world-view informed by more than tired hollywoodian tropes, art-house film-school shorts and Harry Potter to imagine thar point of view.
Musk claim to make twitter less biased was an utter failure, but to pretend now that it never had biases in the first place is wishful ignorance. As I said, federated platforms is the way. If Zucker stand by his promise to federatw threads, he'll be a hero. But if the rappid adoption manages to retain active usage, I don't see him as bellow as breaking that promise. Him chosing to say that itself is already a step in the right direction. It shows the importance of de-centralization, and interoperability has become a mainstream concern.
