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I think it is a mistake to think rules like Twitters and similar are based on research and observation. They are based on the zeitgeist and are always changed t

by cc81 9y ago

I think it is a mistake to think rules like Twitters and similar are based on research and observation. They are based on the zeitgeist and are always changed to make as many users as happy as possible to make the company look good. It would be enough with one guy saying a wants a white genocide and then killing a white person with the media picking up on the connection for twitter to enforce it heavily in the future. Even though nothing had really changed. Is it not an empirical fact that hate crimes against white have risen sharply in the US and that blacks are using violence at a much larger degree against whites than the opposite? So you could probably infer that divisive speech from the black communities has the same effect as divisive speech from white communities? It will increase violence. There are probably no studies but then again there is most likely no studies on the fact that white hate speech on twitter increase violence either, right?

pron 9y ago
> They are based on the zeitgeist and are always changed to make as many users as happy as possible to make the company look good. What you call the zeitgeist, I call the current political climate gained after decades of struggle. Of course any political decision represents some value in a certain historical context. But would you rather Twitter's values represented some foreign climate? > Is it not an empirical fact that hate crimes against white have risen sharply in the US and that blacks are using violence at a much larger degree against whites than the opposite? It is an empirical fact that women's complaints against male harassers and the ensuing consequences are rising, but women are still, factually, by far the more marginalized group. Blacks are still by far the marginalized group, and I am not aware of violence by blacks being met with any leniency whatsoever. In fact, it seems to me that it receives a harsher response from law enforcement. > there is most likely no studies on the fact that white hate speech on twitter increase violence either, right? Violence is not the only thing we care about. There are certainly many studies about racist speech increasing the marginalization of minorities.

by cc81 9y ago

pron 9y ago

> They are based on the zeitgeist and are always changed to make as many users as happy as possible to make the company look good. What you call the zeitgeist, I call the current political climate gained after decades of struggle. Of course any political decision represents some value in a certain historical context. But would you rather Twitter's values represented some foreign climate? > Is it not an empirical fact that hate crimes against white have risen sharply in the US and that blacks are using violence at a much larger degree against whites than the opposite? It is an empirical fact that women's complaints against male harassers and the ensuing consequences are rising, but women are still, factually, by far the more marginalized group. Blacks are still by far the marginalized group, and I am not aware of violence by blacks being met with any leniency whatsoever. In fact, it seems to me that it receives a harsher response from law enforcement. > there is most likely no studies on the fact that white hate speech on twitter increase violence either, right? Violence is not the only thing we care about. There are certainly many studies about racist speech increasing the marginalization of minorities.