That’s one of the most remarkable things I’ve noticed in joining the fediverse (mastodon years ago and lemmy the past couple years).
When people are in charge of their own social media platforms, there’s not less censorship. It just serves a different purpose.
In many ways, speech is more restricted on large federated platforms, but it is for the purpose of protecting people. You can’t just go around being a racist troll or sex pest. It turns out that people actually like limiting speech when people are not the product. The issue in this article would never happen where people have complete freedom and control of their media.
Yet somehow I think if the subject of the deepfakes were Elon, then the response would be different. 🤔
Someone might test that and find out.
Alright, you all heard TwitterX
If it’s okay to make abusive deepfakes of public activists, then go for the jugular and start making abusive deepfakes of Elon. See how long that rule sticks around for when its their owner getting hurt.
Or, hear me out. You go for a bigger baby… just target the shit out of Trump and Vance.
Elon will just do what he needs to do to silence the posts and posters. But if the platform is making deepfakes of Trump… that’ll cause more tension between them. Have deepfakes of Trump bragging about getting away with the Epstein files, scamming over his mindless followers, etc. (Lets be honest, they’d be fake videos of things that actually happened.) Just flood it. And make all of them click bait as hell.
If you observed anything the right wingers did in the last few years, you’d know they already are doing that themselves. Vance literally wore his South Park baby face photoshop for Halloween. They are perfectly ok with everything you listed, in fact they believe it’s a huge own that it bothers you and they get away with it. Trump said he could shoot anyone in the middle of the street and not lose any votes the first time around, this time he could literally nuke the US and still keep his voters.
So… Defamation is officially okay over at twitter. On the record.
Just clarifying here.
Defamation of those “others” is officially okay. FTFY
Well they didn’t make porn of her giving food to Palestinian children so it’s legal in the ZK.
Oh, I do hope that there won’t be an influx of Elon Musk deepfakes on Xitter any time soon, because that would be terrible.
the CCP is one of the vilest ruling parties and in charge of one of the worst governments in the world. She isn’t the only activist who has had this harassment. Obviously massive disgrace from Twitter, but as much as them taking action would help, the issue will not be solved as long as the Communist Party persists.
Adding onto this. Just a few highlights from the article:
She said: “I posted a poster for the Tiananmen Square massacre commemoration in Sutton and right after that, that account made deepfake images about me. They’ve been tagging my username since they started it.
Ni said that one of the posts accusing her of animal abuse had correctly written that she had a cat. She said: “I feel like they’re doing some kind of profiling of me … Every time I go out, I feel like I might be followed or watched. And I actually think that might be the case.”
Considering that there are secret Chinese police stations in other countries that target people like her, she likely is correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_service_stations
I think the fact that this is a statement that needed saying is evidenced by how many people (presumably from .ml or of similar inclinations) are downvoting this, lol.
Weird take, I am not ready to just say “oh it’s fine when X does this because the CCP started it.”
I didn’t say it’s fine when Twitter does this. I specifically said it isn’t remotely okay. My point is only that this is not the only case of the CCP doing this, and that Twitter is not the only avenue it uses to do so.
