A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for his tweets, and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.
Mastodon has no profit motive, Mastodon has no shareholders. Why people choose a platform that needs to make money and make their shareholders happy to focus their obsession with a grotesque misunderstanding of “freedom of speech” around is, to put it best, beyond me.
@sven@ErikUden I'm as technically declined as they come. On top of that I hate computers, software, and the people who make both. (Nothing personal: I just want you all to die in a fire until you get replaced by people who understand what a good UX is.)
And I did not find Mastodon any harder to use than Twitter or Facebook (and indeed in the aspect of staying where I want it instead of changing shit out from under me it's far superior to both!).
@ErikUden This sounds a lot like victim blaming. A person is going to get killed and you're basically saying: "Well, they should have used Mastodon." Really!?
@levampyre That's not my point at all - I'm talking about the weird freeze peach libertarians who think Twitter is the epitome of freedom when as per examples like this one can obviously see how that's not the case.
Never would I blame someone for getting killed when all they did was opening an account on a social network. The same could've happened on Mastodon if the admins had given into the pressure, my point is only that it's more likely on for-profit social networks as shareholders can have ulterior motives like this.
I'm trying to tell a cautionary tale, not claim the victim is at fault.
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