The self-proclaimed progressive onclave social media platform designed to isolate the Good people from unclean thoughts and their Nazi neighbors is proving to be a magnificent social experiment testing the proposition that the Mutated Left of the 21st Century can’t tolerate dissent or any ideas that don’t make them feel warm and cuddly.
As first noted here by commenter Michael R., “Apparently, all the liberals who left X went to BlueSky and immediately started reporting everyone else for not being ‘woke’ enough for their tastes. Their ‘hate speech’ and ‘misinformation’ reports have gone from 350,000 in all to 2023 to over 40,000/day since the election. Of course, some moderation requests probably can’t even get in because they are busy.” Yes, the experiment is working out just fine. These people, as they and their Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates demonstrated, don’t get that freedom of speech thingy. The funny part is that it was in great part the bubble progressives live in that led their party to its2024 disaster, and their solution is …..to construct a stronger bubble.
About 115,000 X accounts were deleted the day after the November 5 election and Bluesky has seen a surge of at least four million new accounts. Bitter celebrities have signed up, and even the British far left, Trump-Deranged, pro-censorship British tabloid The Guardian has left “X” for the Only The Good and Virtuous May Apply bubble-site. In a statement accompanying its exit, the British paper cited “the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism.”
Useful definitions:
“Disturbing” means positions and opinions that do not embrace the agendas of the totalitarian Left or worse yet, make them more difficult to achieve.
“Promoted” means “Allowed to be written and discussed”
“Far-Right Conspiracy Theories” includes claiming that FEMA workers intentionally withheld aide from Trump supporters.
“Racism” means, among other things, criticizing Kamala Harris.
And, of course, the refugees from reality can’t take a joke…
So thanks, BlueSky! You provided a wonderful way for the intolerant, doctrinaire, anti-speech progressives who have divided the country and the culture while endangering civic discourse and democracy to show exactly who and what they are.
Now figure out a way to cure them.
Please.
[ Incidentally, am I the only one who finds the name “Bluesky” vaguely Russian?]
Ethics Alarms 
This is what came to my mind when I heard Bluesky.
Electric Light Orchestra – Mr. Blue Sky
https://youtu.be/aQUlA8Hcv4s?si=aNFZIoFWrzLDc1J5
You must be young. I thought of the old song Blue Skies:
Willie Nelson – Blue Skies (Official Audio)
You must be young. I thought of Judy Garland’s version from the 1946 MGM musical of the same name.
Nah, actually I was thinking about Bing and Danny Kaye singing it in White Christmas but I didn’t have time to find the YouTube.
And they don’t sing the whole song, either.
I was actually thinking about the U2 song “Bullet the Blue Sky.”
Wait, isn’t “blue sky” a pejorative term for worthless securities? As in, “All these guys are selling is blue sky”?
I want to stay on Twitter (I refuse to call it X when the original name was better) because I WANT to see all sides. (Obviously, since I read Ethics Alarms.) But if I find that the progressive side (or any side, for that matter, but odds are in favor of a progressive blackout) is being blocked or kept out of my feed, I’ll exclusively look at adorable animal videos and forsake trending items. (Besides, I have to stay on to support John Cusack.) But I won’t go to BlueSky (even though I actually DO like its name) because I have enough mental bandwidth for only so much online stuff.
Last month, I just subscribed to my first…well…I don’t know what it’s officially called, but it’s another person’s account – an ethics guy that also has an ethics website – on Twitter/X. I call it Twix for short.
Anyway, it took me this long to get to this point, so Bluesky is out of the question.
Twix. I love it. Stealing!
So, they’re doing “triage” to prioritize removal of the really bad stuff like kiddie porn – but also basically 100% of content from the Babylon Bee, a satire site. I’d love to see their internal guidance documents for this “triage”.
Looking at the post they censored, and the complaints about it, I’m reminded that most content labeled ‘transphobic’ should really be labeled ‘veritaphilic’. I know, that’s not an established word, but it sums up the actual issue in many cases. Frankly, the trans movement is dependent on twisted definitions, motte and baily arguments, and other forms of inconsistent logic.
I just created a Blue Sky account.
https://bsky.app/profile/mejercit.bsky.social
Oh good. You can be our scout. Keep us posted. (Are you following @ethicsalarmist on Twitter/X?
See this.
It seems like the Bluesky problem is even worse than it appears. Bluesky was apparently ‘invitation only’ until the election. Now that the new people have signed up, there are reports of A LOT of child porn. So, either the ‘invitation only’ people were pedophiles and pedophile-tolerant or the first thing the people leaving Twitter/X did once they joined Bluesky was to post all the child porn that Twitter/X stopped tolerating after Musk took over (he’s so intolerant). Either way, it isn’t a good look.
I never saw that stuff there, so that sort of stuff was likely taken down within minutes.
Follow the Twitter account @BlueskyLibs (Liberals of Bluesky) and thank me later.
But don’t ask me to pay for your keyboard or monitor! Fair warning!
One report on Blusski that a post “There are only two genders” lasted less than 30 seconds before being taken down.
Here is a link to a BlueSky search for “Two Genders“.
I see. An all moron platform. Cool.
Not since I joined.
I stand corrected!
I’d never heard of BlueSky before reading this a couple of days ago. I went to Bluesky and did the unthinkable, I opened an account and posted a couple of things to see what happens. I have no expectation of actually using BlueSky for much of anything at this point in time.
I left X as Curmie. I seldom if ever used that account to do anything but announce a new blog post, anyway. Why support yet another narcissistic mediocrity? I’m keeping my personal account; I haven’t tweeted anything in years, but I do occasionally use the platform to check in on arts agencies, theatre companies, museums in cities I might visit, etc.
And I opened a Bluesky account. Most of what I’ve posted there would align with the presumed politics of the site; we’ll see what happens when I say something that isn’t orthodox leftie.
Why did I just think of Paul Simon’s “Simple Desultory Philippic”? (I am indeed left-handed.)