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Comparing a centralized, unified group like a newspaper writing team with a diffuse, decentralized mob like Twitter makes me question your sincerity.
by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Comparing a centralized, unified group like a newspaper writing team with a diffuse, decentralized mob like Twitter makes me question your sincerity.
- mozumder 9y agoTwitter is a single corporation. It can choose to limit the scope of its published tweets if it wishes, via stronger editorial rules.
- SomeStupidPoint 9y agoIt could also choose to open a steel factory and produce I beams -- why are we not criticizing its low steel output? Twitter would immediately lose all utility to me if it transitioned out of the business of being a forum/socialization platform to a poorly sourced algorothmic newspaper. (They're flirting with it -- and frankly, it doesn't seem to be going well, because that's not what people want.) It seems outright disingenuous to suggest that Twitter and the NYT are in the same business, and seems to be based entirely around a false equivalence about "publish". There are multiple kinds of businesses that publish things, and the solution to problems in one domain aren't just to be a differemt type of business.