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> It's currently a bunch of left wingers that don't care much for freedom of speech... There's this idea that I hear mostly from the "right" that "freedom of s
by chasing 10y ago
> It's currently a bunch of left wingers that don't care much for freedom of speech...
There's this idea that I hear mostly from the "right" that "freedom of speech" means "let people be assholes to one another with impunity."
We need to fight back when the government attempts to abridge free speech. That's what the ACLU is good at. But Twitter is a community -- a community under no legal obligation to include toxic users.
"Freedom of speech" gives people who don't fit in at Twitter the right to go build their own community that's as toxic as they want amongst themselves.
As a Twitter user, I don't want to have to worry about being attacked or experiencing floods of toxic responses to something I might say. Thankfully I don't. But I do see toxic content directed at people fairly regularly. Toxic content meaning: Stuff that attempts to make no point, just attempts to spread hate or fear.
- xiaoma 10y agoTwitter is anything but a community. It's a platform with a multitude of communities and individuals, many with conflicting goals.
- chasing 10y agoOf course. "Community" meaning something people opt in to use, is what I meant. But the company should have an over-arching set of community standard so people know what's expected of them when they participate.