Please ask Snopes to reevaluate its finding that Charlie Kirk was not endorsing the stoning of gays, which he called "God's perfect law."
    • Taldan@lemmy.world
      10·
      6 days ago

      I wouldn’t call it enshitification. It’s preemptive self-censorship to avoid the wrath of an authoritarian regime

      It’s important to differentiate from regular enshitification where a service is made worse in an effort to extract more value from users. In this case it is to the detriment of Snopes and its users

      Seems a safe bet the impetus for it was that they didn’t feel they could accurately report Kirk’s statements without reprisal from the government

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

    OK, let’s say he was joking and that quote is way out of context. So what?

    A) It’s so tasteless, you and I might get fired for saying it out loud or even on FaceBook.

    B) Worse, his audience is perfectly happy to internalize and repeat the quote.