Crunchysteve<p>I was just discussing the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TwitterDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TwitterDown</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonMigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonMigration</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DDOS</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TwitterFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TwitterFail</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SelfDDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfDDOS</span></a> with a twitter refugee, IRL friend and it occurred to me, this is what humans have always done as other humans invade. Some leave to tell the truth to the world (like Einstein's migration to the USA in the 1930s), sometimes in full flight, as refugees. (Like Einstein in the 1930s.) OK, there aren't the threats of firing squads and "account death" isn't actual death, it's a silencing, but violence is traumatic, accumulative and harmful. Likewise microvilences accumulate, slowly, sure, but the harm still gets done.</p><p>Elon "Muck" is an aggressor, a tyrant, a fascist. Twitter has become a battleground between hollow opinion and reasoned dissent. It is a war zone. Bombs aren't falling. People aren't dying, but the behaviour of the platform's self-appointed supreme leader is weaponised gaslighting, weaponised abuse, in short a war _of_ torment. Singling out the different ("cis is term of abuse") and using their reasoned, evidenced position against them in abusive propagandist's twisted reversal of the attacked group's position. </p><p>Trans? "They're the problem!" ~ Elon Hitler<br>Evidence based and academic? "What do they know?!" ~ Elon Mussolini.</p><p>This fight for Twitter (I believe Twitter is lost, sorry) is the evolution of war. The "corporate aristocracy" have gone to war on the heart of democracy, public discussion, in much the way Trump went to war on legal procedure and common decency (as in manners, not morality, the latter itself, hijacked.)</p><p>I left Facebook because I was no longer willing to allow my reactions to feed Meta's product motive. I fled the evolution of slavery, a pseudo-consensual slavery of our psychology rather than bodies. I am a dissenter in exile. Writing what I can.</p><p>Those of you from twitter, really are refugees. Not fleeing a physical threat, not in fear of life, still with your rooves over your heads sure, but in fear of your voice being unilaterally silenced without trial or evidence, more easily than by spilling your blood.</p><p>This is what <a href="https://aus.social/tags/cyberwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberwar</span></a> looks like.</p>