Post #3968680
2026-07-20 20:16 UTC
@USelaine@mastodon.online "everything is political" may be true but it's a very poor excuse to perpetuate the social-media illusion that government officials intend to present themselves on the Internet as if they were just ordinary users. instead what ALWAYS happens is that these government (or corporate or other) officials start demanding privileged treatment, such as censorious moderation in order to protect those officials from criticism, and the end result is a medium corrupted into an arm of official propaganda for the powerful.
and remember you only brought up the Vatican as a specious example of an organization that should be exempt from community standards about content warnings. you deliberately invoked the example of a powerful government who implicitly ought to be allowed to play by their own rules.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-20 20:18
@USelaine@mastodon.online now Matt Blaze is a pipsqueak compared to the Vatican but he's doing the same thing: "I should be exempt from community standards, I'm too IMPORTANT." so yes, he should just piss off to BlueSky, where the owners are deliberately fostering just the sort of political corruption that comes about when powerful organizations fake being ordinary on social media.
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@USelaine@mastodon.online 2026-07-20 20:22
@mxchara@seattle.pink I used the Vatican as an obvious example of what some people would never want to see, no matter what they say, and others would want to see everything they say. The tools are in our hands to screen.