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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (1491013)10/5/2024 8:58:49 PM
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Your post is naive.

X is very much a filter, an algorithmically controlled filter. And this filter is something that Musk is known to shape to force his own opinions on others. Even to promote other government's views - he actually re-posts a lot of material generated by Russian influence operations on a regular basis, for example. He forces the developers to weight his posts more heavily.

True, one can themselves override the built in Musk worshiping machine controls and influence peddling (like by blocking Musk) and shape the filter to match one's own proclivities and interests, for example through following users and liking posts. And Twitter got it's popularity, and X remains popular in this space because this ability to shape the filter and get the very latest news developments is quite good. But it is no less susceptible to US government control than corporate control and foreign influence.

Government very much has an important role in preventing crime, abuse and foreign influence.

Do you think you have some basic right to post the blueprints for a nuclear weapon? To publish US national security secrets? To post pornography and pedophilia? Who regulates this?

Your argument is tragically flawed, simplistic and naive.
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