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Your Twitter/X account is a microphone connected to a mixer controlled by a fascist. You can speak all you want. The fascist controls your volume and can mute you whenever he wants. And you might not even know you’ve been muted because you can still hear yourself in your headphones.
It’s not called resistance when your volume knob is in someone else’s hand.
@aral True, but whether that's sufficient reason to completely abandon football twitter (for example) to the fascists is still perhaps moot.
@rooftopaxx @aral Are you arguing with fascists over there? If yes, how can you be sure you are heard? If you are not, what is your argument?
@flip0xfff @aral As just one example, which side would you have preferred the Ultras White Knights to have been on during the Arab Spring? Another, which side might you take on the whole Spanish Football Federation debacle? (Participating in the discourse doesn't mean engaging directly with actual fascists in the misguided hope of influencing them)
@rooftopaxx @flip0xfff Oh don’t worry, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia now owns the second largest share of Twitter/X after Elon Musk so we know exactly where the Arab Spring folks would end up today if they were to use Twitter/X.
And that’s the problem. We have folks who don’t understand the dangers telling people it’s safe to use.
And in case you think I’m exaggerating the danger, Saudi just sentenced a man to death for his posts:
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1196776390/saudi-arabia-man-death-sentence-tweets
@aral @flip0xfff What on earth would give you the impression we weren't aware of that already? The point is whether the territory should be completely abandoned for a culturally insignificant safer space.
@aral @flip0xfff to which we answered "True,but…"