The moral case for stepping away from Elon Musk's X

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Dave Lee / Bloomberg Opinion

A man was murdered in my neighborhood on Monday. Ryan Carson was waiting at a bus stop with his girlfriend just before 4 a.m. when a man stabbed him repeatedly him in the chest. The couple had been at a wedding.

A video of the attack, obtained initially by the New York Post, was soon seized upon by one of X’s newest “stars,” one of those users who has thrived under the new Elon Musk regime at the former Twitter. His feed (which I will not publicize) is a stream of incendiary incidents from around the world, posted several times a day to an audience that is approaching a million followers.

I don’t follow this account, but X’s algorithm makes absolutely sure that I see what it has to say. A senseless murder is apparently a content opportunity not to be missed. The user’s post on Tuesday contained all the ingredients for success: It was timely. It was shocking. It was an innocent 32-year-old man dying on the streets of New York City. It was a chance, duly taken, to write an inflammatory comment on Carson’s work in public policy, as though it had somehow led to this moment, as though he had it coming.

As I rode the subway home to Bedford-Stuyvesant, I watched as the video clocked 1 million views, then 2 million. Up up up. Disgusting replies flooded in by the thousands: That’s what you get for supporting woke policies; should have carried a gun; looks planned. By the time I got home, I had deleted the app from my phone.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-the-moral-case-for-stepping-away-from-elon-musks-x/

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Anything that muskrat touches, stay away. I don't trust him one bit.

He's almost just as bad as tRUMP in seeking, craving, etc. attention of any kind.

[Blue Owl]

2. Just say NO to that fuck and his fucked up piece of shit app

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Andy Ngo is the bastard that he is describing in this article

Ngo is a heartless dead eyed shark that feeds on the misery and misfortune of others. He takes particular glee in directing stochastic terrorism against anyone he senses will engage his audience of dimwits, misfits and maniacs and it's all done as a profit making enterprise.
He is represented by Harmeet Dhillon, a well funded well known operative in the GOP. He has lost every case.

[usonian]

4. COFFEEGEEK IS LEAVING TWITTER / X (repost)

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=18336381

short of it:
https://www.coffeegeek.com/news/coffeegeek-is-leaving-twitter-x/

Elon Musk has given us many reasons to walk away from Twitter, but the real reason we are no longer going to promote that platform or participate on it is because it has become too too toxic and dangerous on too many levels. The platform no longer presents companies like ours a venue to engage in friendly and respectful interactions. The amount of vitriol, bigotry, racism, anti-LGBTQ, anti immigrant, anti Jewish commentary, and all the conspiracy theories, many of which are amplified by the current owner, has increased beyond what we feel comfortable with.

[IbogaProject]

5. And one of our community knew the victim and praised his work

So typical wright-wing propaganda always searching for false targets to prop up their weak arguments.