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If countries want to ban TikTok, they should make privacy laws and then ban it legitimately on account of violating privacy regulations (along with many other sketchy companies’ social platforms as well – yay!) instead of trying to ban it because it’s Chinese.

Make privacy laws and then ban Meta and Twitter and everyone else who violates them.

—@topher

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Twitter quietly edited its hateful conduct policy to drop transgender protections by Ashley Belanger
Musk says his own tweets might be labeled under new hateful conduct policy.

The guy who, a week and a half ago, was blocking links from Substack and who suspended journalists in December for talking about his jet’s location would really like us to know that “free speech is paramount” and so that’s why there are no longer protections for trans people as part of Twitter’s policies.

If you believe Elon still cares anything about free speech you deserve to be lied to and taken advantage of, at the very least.

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my previous policy had been “no alt text, no boost”

but now, and i can’t believe i have to say this, my policy is “no useful alt text, no boost”

alt text is there to improve accessibility for sight-impaired users. just throwing some bullshit in the alt text field so you can say you did, w/o actually putting in a description that will be of use to anyone, is deeply cynical and i’m not going to reward it

it’s not hard, you fuckers

—@nerdybutcute