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      hey there, this–and your subsequent posts downthread–are really not an acceptable way to start engaging in political discussion on our community. they run afoul of the be(e) nice ethos in a lot of ways and they do not leave any room for serious discussion. we’ll be removing them as such.

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        If this is the case, then you have to make clear what is acceptable, trust me im tame compared to my other conservatives on social media alternatives, i just would appreciate a clear set of rules, do you have a link or screenshot of said rules?

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          There aren’t clear rules by design

          https://beehaw.org/post/107014

          The issue as I see it with modern social media is the way in which rules are enforced. There are many good reasons to itemize specific behavior which is not allowed, but the downside is that extremely specific rules are easy to maneuver around. We’ve all experienced someone who’s a real jerk on the internet but manages to never get banned because they never explicitly violate any rules. I’m not sexist, they’ll claim, but happen to post a lot of articles calling into question modern feminism or criticize the wage gap.

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      Those damned capitalist corporations, always working for leftist causes!

      Comrade Business dude is really giving poor Elon a spanking.

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        I would say that companies like Black rock, headed by Larry Fink they push E.S.G. or basically Chinese social credit score type things for lack of better words and essentially they are trying to reshape society. They encourage certain things like say, for example, the celebration of pride month, which I actually don’t have a problem with But that’s not really the subject of this conversation. I would say that Black rock and or companies like it that divvy out loans to companies give companies this social credit score like China does to its citizens and if you go against the grain with companies like Black rock, then you don’t get the loan. I feel like Twitter has gone against the grain in a sense, and is now paying the price for better or worse

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          USA has been using credit scores since the 50s. It’s a banking thing. Chinese Social Credit does not work like you think it works.

          Blackrock doesn’t give a damn about pride, it’s just good for business to do not look like a bigot right now. Liberals simply have more money, liberal cities are bigger and better markets. Liberals right now are pro gay rights. IF liberals get transphobic you will see a tarnsphobic Blackrock. They have no moral agenda. They only want to own everything and collect rent. Blackrock makes investments in private equity, stock market and real state. It’s not a loaner. Your bank is who will deny you a loan because “computer says no”.

          Twitter is just bad business dude. It’s badly managed. If advertising in Twitter meant more money every corporation would be purchasing adds, but even before Elon backstabed the workers, destroyed the contracts and infrastructure and loaded the company with billions in debt Twitter was shrinking. The presence in the zeitgeist is totally artificial, because celebrities, politicians and journalists are obsessed with it. But Pinterest has more users than Twitter.