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Absurd. It's a fantastic venue for substantive debate, technical political and mediatic. You're speaking confidently about something you're ignorant about.
by RodericDay 9y ago
Absurd. It's a fantastic venue for substantive debate, technical political and mediatic. You're speaking confidently about something you're ignorant about.
- stagbeetle 9y agoCan you supply examples? Twitter, by virtue of being Twitter, is not a good medium for substantive debate. The forum is the most populated one in the entire world. It is amazing for equalizing influence and allowing democratic propagation of information (which would otherwise be under the control of media firms), but this also means the bar for voicing one's opinion is in the Mariana's Trench. Anyone can butt in an derail the debate. Twitter moderation is also very clearly biased in one direction (if you were to simply compare how often each side's individual account's are banned) and thus not an open medium where those debating can speak freely without consequence. There's also the greater scheme of digital communications which are notorious for not being in anyway productive. Debate online just simply does not work with the way human communication biologically evolved.