Do Other Authors Use Twitter?

[alohadave]

As one who would not send her daughter to work for him, you have no problem using his services.
What to be expected from an ex-con-whore.

Reported. Why you haven't been banned yet is a mystery to me.

TY. The more you report me the sooner my request to be removed from this shithole will be.

Just fucking leave.

 

[MelissaBaby]

They are following 11, with 2 people following them.

Yep, I read it backwards.

Sorry Phantom, but that means I get the honor of being your first first follower!

 

[Voboy]

TY. The more you report me the sooner my request to be removed from this shithole will be.

This would appear to contradict the sentiment below…

Not leaving my stories behind. I will never cast pearls before swine again.
I'd rather die than leave my art tied to this cursed nest of spawn.

…so which is it? Leaving or staying?

 

[SimonDoom]

TY. The more you report me the sooner my request to be removed from this shithole will be.
Just for the avoidance of doubt, according to her testimony, she is an ex-con and ex-whore.

If you call a black person the N-word, you can claim you are telling the truth. You are still a vile, racist A-hole. It's the manifest intent and circumstances behind the statement that matter.

 

[Voboy]

The moment the member is removed, his stories are removed with him. You fucking uni-lobe.

Indeed.

Which is exactly what I asked you. You asked to be removed? Yet you don’t want your ”art” to go with you?

I’m asking how you intend to square that circle. And I’m doing it without an ad-hominem, unlike some.

 

[Priscilla_June]

Welll… heh this thread is getting a but interesting from where I envisioned it. Thanks to everyone who answered my questions regarding lit on Twitter, you’ve given me a fair bit to chew on!

 

[ChloeTzang]

Not sure if its true, because I never had one, but I've heard Facebook is really tough on erotica?
Is that a real thing?

Oh yeah, Facebook is. I got Facebook gulaged for 30 days for a book cover that was perfectly acceptable to Amazon and gulaged a couple more times for erotica related posts - nothing that explicit, but jeeze. Now I'll link to my MeWe account for anything I think Facebook won't handle. Between erotica and politics, I think I spent about a third of 2022 in the gulag

 

[ChloeTzang]

I'm more pro-free speech than most of the contributors to this forum, but I absolutely draw the line at vile ad hominem attacks. I've reported you.

I refuse to dignify that post you reported with a response, but also reported it and put the poster on ignore. Offensive peasant.

 

[Voboy]

I refuse to dignify that post you reported with a response, but also reported it and put the poster on ignore. Offensive peasant.

Too bad.

You‘re missing prime content.

 

[Bramblethorn]

No, I don't believe it was ever a leftist stronghold either, but Twitter's conduct regarding some issues, and Facebook's as well, raises a very important issue: what is the responsibility of corporate media platforms in the face of what some call "misinformation"? Do we trust them as gatekeepers of what is accurate and what is not?

I don't think this is a partisan political position: I don't. I think, in most platforms, public and private, the "right" response to bad or false speech is good or truthful speech. Let people say what they want to say, and let people choose to believe what they believe. I have very, very little confidence in the judgment of speech gatekeepers, once we make "speech gatekeeper" a thing. It doesn't matter what their politics are. I think there's ample reason and evidence to be extremely skeptical that anyone is qualified for that job, whether it's in the government, in media, in academic institutions, or anywhere.

There certainly is a dilemma there - it comes down to "this is imperfect, but does it do more harm than good?" questions which are hard to answer definitively.

Twitter's moderation has always been problematic - AFAICT they simply didn't put enough resources into content moderation to have a human make a considered decision about every issue that came up, so it often seemed to come down to how many people reported a post than to whether it actually violated their stated policies. Given how many of the people from those teams got fired when Space Karen took the reins, I doubt that aspect of things has improved since. (Pro tip: anybody who says this can be addressed by "AI" can be safely ignored.)

But not all of these decisions are in the company's hands. Some of it's just legal compliance. Countries like Germany have legal restrictions related to Nazism, and if Twitter wants to do business in Germany it has to hide certain content from German viewers regardless of whether it agrees with those restrictions. And a lot of the recent "Twitter Files" ruckus was people screaming political censorship about Twitter enforcing a policy against revenge porn, something that's illegal in most US states even when the subject is the son of a prominent politician.

 

[ElectricBlue]

TY. The more you report me the sooner my request to be removed from this shithole will be.
Just for the avoidance of doubt, according to her testimony, she is an ex-con and ex-whore.

Why haven't you submitted a "Delete all my Stories" request to the site (like anyone else does, who wants their account closed); then just shut the fuck up in the meantime?

Being an asshole doesn't get you special privileges.

And just for the avoidance of doubt, long term AH members know Melissa's background, know also that she's done her time, and that is all we need to know.

 

[Duleigh]

Why haven't you submitted a "Delete all my Stories" request to the site (like anyone else does, who wants their account closed); then just shut the fuck up in the meantime?

Being an asshole doesn't get you special privileges.

And just for the avoidance of doubt, long term AH members know Melissa's background, know also that she's done her time, and that is all we need to know.

Let's not be beating up on the troll too bad, I've read his " art" which he misspelled. That is unusual, he normally gets the four-letter words correct. With his scores the management will be relieved to be deleting them, it'll bring the entire lit average up a point or two. He'll be gone soon, and he won't have to come here hiding behind his girlfriend's picture as an avatar anymore.

 

[jsmiam]

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And just for the avoidance of doubt, long term AH members know Melissa's background, know also that she's done her time, and that is all we need to know.

+1

and, Melissa has credibility and respect amongst her peers. Unsolicited.

If we were to count positive perceptions of the other (not counting his own perceptions), i would not predict a good outcome.

PS: he often wipes out his older forum posts, a feature of the new forum software that previously wasn’t possible. Due to that I’ll at least quote the screen name for posterity.

… snip

 

[lovecraft68]

Between erotica and politics, I think I spent about a third of 2022 in the gulag

Hope Alina X doesn't read this, they'll have to call you a liar too.

 

[lovecraft68]

If you call a black person the N-word, you can claim you aret telling the truth. You are still a vile, racist A-hole. It's the manifest intent and circumstances behind the statement that matter.t MCU

I believe that falls-or should-under hate speech which is a violation....issue is the inconsistent designation of hate speech. My personal opinion is that it should still be allowed although it is hurtful to people, and my reasoning is let everyone see that person for who they are, and it reminds us that this crap is out there and those reminders are needed seeing media and politicians have beaten the word racist so badly into the ground they've turned people deaf to it, so real life examples are all that's left to keep people mindful of the reality of it behind the over the top woke BS

But as far as leftist twitter goes let's do this. On Twitter Jordan Peterson had his account banned for hate speech because he said there were only two biological genders.

Meanwhile Lititia Wright the young woman who plays Shuri in MCU tweeted she does not feel comfortable taking Covid Vax and its her body and her decision. She had to close her twitter account because of the thousands of hate filled name calling vile abuse she endured from those oh so tolerant liberals. Cunt the N-word, whore personal attacks and all because she made that decision.

So please, everyone tell me again how pre Musk twitter was just oh so fair. and how only leftists related groups are the poor 'victims'

The left is getting a dose of its own medicine and like the children they are, they don't like the taste.

I see this because I sit center in my beliefs, some right, some left, and based on where my personal feelings lie, not having to adhere to one mindless group like most everyone here does. Because I look at both sides equally I know they're both trash, they both spread hate and fear and want division which the herd has happily given them

In closing, if anyone here wants to see hate speech tolerated on both sides of the political fence? Just be a woman the internet, but of course, that's never an issue worth discussing

 

[lovecraft68]

TY. The more you report me the sooner my request to be removed from this shithole will be.
Just for the avoidance of doubt, according to her testimony, she is an ex-con and ex-whore.

I'll just say what everyone else is thinking
You're a piece of fucking shit. You're not trolling, you're beyond trash.
Unlike you, I won't delete this.
Signed a fellow ex-con who lost half their family to drugs and alcohol abuse.
Melissa is a survivor, you're nothing.

 

[lovecraft68]

Let's not be beating up on the troll too bad, I've read his " art" which he misspelled. That is unusual, he normally gets the four-letter words correct. With his scores the management will be relieved to be deleting them, it'll bring the entire lit average up a point or two. He'll be gone soon, and he won't have to come here hiding behind his girlfriend's picture as an avatar anymore.

He doesn't allow scoring, too vain to see the low scores.

 

[SimonDoom]

In closing, if you want to see hate speech tolerated on both sides of the political fence? Just be a woman the internet, but of course, that's never an issue worth discussing

Let's be clear about the forum we're talking about. I don't believe in hate speech laws, or anti-blasphemy laws, or pretty much any laws that regulate speech on the basis of content.

But Literotica isn't the government, and it isn't subject to the protections of the First Amendment. I still think, as a matter of policy, it should tolerate a wide range of points of views. But I also think it's appropriate for it to maintain a certain minimal level of civility. If you want to express a point of view that is obnoxious to others, that should be OK. But it shouldn't be OK to directly attack other members of the forum with personal insults. That behavior makes it toxic and less appealing. It's not an infringement of free speech for Literotica to insist upon certain minimal standards if you want to be invited into its house.

This has nothing at all to do with the issues you raise relating to Twitter and COVID and all that. I tend to believe the way you fight bad information is with good information rather than cancellation and censorship.

 

[SimonDoom]

They sit on an American server, so all regulation applies to them.

You don't understand how the Constitution works. The Constitution's Bill of Rights protects individuals against government regulation. It doesn't protect individuals from regulations by private companies. If your employer enacts regulations about what you can and cannot say in the workplace, that doesn't affect your Constitutional rights (assuming it is a private, not government, employer). The same is true of privately owned social media platforms, universities, private associations, etc.

 

[ElectricBlue]

PS: he often wipes out his older forum posts, a feature of the new forum software that previously wasn’t possible. Due to that I’ll at least quote the screen name for posterity.

Yes, I saw the post where he said he did that. What a guy, carrying on like scum then saying, "It can't have been me, because look, no traces."

 

[Duleigh]

He doesn't allow scoring, too vain to see the low scores.

There's a couple of stories with a score, and you're right. Even for Loving Wives it's low, his troll buddies probably look at his work and try to boost it up.

 

[SimonDoom]

There are threshold conditions for anyone who runs a website on an American server

Yes, but that has nothing to do with the Bill of Rights under the Constitution.

Congress has the power to regulate the Internet in various ways. Usually, that power is derived from the Interstate Commerce Clause (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3). The states also have powers, so long as they don't interfere with Congress's exercise of its exclusive commerce power.

The Bill of Rights, which comprises some of the amendments to the Constitution, limits the exercise of authority by Congress and the states in certain ways. The First Amendment limits government's ability to regulate individual speech. But it doesn't limit private actors, except in very limited cases. This principle is known as the "state action doctrine." See Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1, 13 (1948). A few limited exceptions have been found where an ostensibly private entity, like the owner of a shopping mall, has been acting effectively like a public entity. So far, the US Supreme Court has not recognized social media platforms like Facebook or Literotica as being public/quasi-governmental entities whose speech regulations are circumscribed by the First Amendment. It's possible that could change in the future, but I think it's unlikely with the current Court lineup.

 

[lovecraft68]

Let's get something straight here: I'm not going to punch someone who can't take it. You and she, unlike the other unfortunates here, are relatively intelligent and know how to punch back.
I haven't forgotten that it was her unfortunate comment that caused my thread to be locked unjustly.

Punching is something done in person, you're shooting out shitty things from the safety of the internet.
I stir the pot around here on certain topics, but there are places where most people know that you don't go and levels you don't sink to.
For someone who tries to claim they mock incels you enjoy attacking female posters here.
Karma's a bitch. can't wait until the day she introduces herself to you.

 

[Duleigh]

You don't understand how the Constitution works. The Constitution's Bill of Rights protects individuals against government regulation. It doesn't protect individuals from regulations by private companies. If your employer enacts regulations about what you can and cannot say in the workplace, that doesn't affect your Constitutional rights (assuming it is a private, not government, employer). The same is true of privately owned social media platforms, universities, private associations, etc.

Oh good lord. I have it blocked so I can't see what it said now but it's whining about it's constitutional rights? The constitution DOES NOT guarantee the freedom of speech, far from it, it says Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. That leaves the question of appropriate speech to the individual, the constitution does not say "You can say whatever you want without fear of getting your ignorant words stuffed back down your throat" It prevents congress from assuming the ability to control free speech, they cannot outlaw screaming "Fire" in a crowded theater, but the theater owner and the fire department can. Unlike this troll, the constitution is very smart.

And if he wants to hide behind the protections of the constitution, he/she/it must keep in mind who the constitution was written for:
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
which was the 18th century way of saying "It was made for responsible individuals." Spewing the discharge of fecal ignorance and venom this 'person' disgorged shows no attempt to be responsible mentally or emotionally. It is not protected speech, nor is it proof of an actual thought process existing between his chair and his keyboard.

 

[lovecraft68]

I rarely ever say this because like Simon I lean towards people being able to say whatever the hell they want. We should never try to control what people say, we control if we want to respond and then how we respond.

I've been on these boards about 11 years or so. I have never blocked anyone. There are people I simply no longer respond to, but I like to have the option open or see if they're yapping about me.

I think its time to simply stop replying to the cockroach in the room. Just like kids taking temper tantrums stop when no one is paying attention, he can be starved out of here because despite his claims he's not removing his stories and he's not leaving here.

So unless we want to let it come down him getting every thread locked and making the mod have to keep vacuuming up behind him-at least on the posts he doesn't delete because he's trying to avoid banning-time to stop playing the game, because he's not being funny, he's devolved into mean spiritedness.