That’s one of the most remarkable things I’ve noticed in joining the fediverse (mastodon years ago and lemmy the past couple years).
When people are in charge of their own social media platforms, there’s not less censorship. It just serves a different purpose.
In many ways, speech is more restricted on large federated platforms, but it is for the purpose of protecting people. You can’t just go around being a racist troll or sex pest. It turns out that people actually like limiting speech when people are not the product. The issue in this article would never happen where people have complete freedom and control of their media.
Yet somehow I think if the subject of the deepfakes were Elon, then the response would be different. 🤔
the CCP is one of the vilest ruling parties and in charge of one of the worst governments in the world. She isn’t the only activist who has had this harassment. Obviously massive disgrace from Twitter, but as much as them taking action would help, the issue will not be solved as long as the Communist Party persists.
Weird take, I am not ready to just say “oh it’s fine when X does this because the CCP started it.”
I didn’t say it’s fine when Twitter does this. I specifically said it isn’t remotely okay. My point is only that this is not the only case of the CCP doing this, and that Twitter is not the only avenue it uses to do so.
I think the fact that this is a statement that needed saying is evidenced by how many people (presumably from .ml or of similar inclinations) are downvoting this, lol.
