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This seems like a good way to make twitter even more toxic than it already is. If you're afraid of your tweets coming back to haunt you later on, maybe you sho

This seems like a good way to make twitter even more toxic than it already is. If you're afraid of your tweets coming back to haunt you later on, maybe you shouldn't be tweeting those things.

mobilefriendly 9y ago
You never know when politically correct culture, which grows more intolerant and authoritarian by the day, will shift against something you said once on Twitter.
perfectapologia 9y ago
is this consciously apologia for enslaving oneself to moral fashion, or do you hold this opinion unaware of the terrible consequences?
danielvf 9y ago
In the 1930’s, it became a crime (in a certain large country) to think that plants had genes that gave heritable traits. Thousands of scientists, biologists, agricultural researchers and others were imprisioned or executed for disagreeing or previously having held the wrong view. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism Sure, there a lot of evil and stupidity said on Twitter, and through human history. But not everyone who is punished for what they said was saying something wrong.
troutwine 9y ago
I dunno. I delete my tweets after a year. I do it not because I'm afraid of anything coming back to bite me but because I'm opposed to being perpetually archived. Some day I will die. I'd prefer not to leave any carelessly produced ghosts of myself behind, if I can help it.
27182818284 9y ago
I think it could make it less toxic by allowing the long tail of users to delete things that may have come off-the-cuff, in a heated moment, or are simply cringeworthy when you look back on them.
DoreenMichele 9y ago
Or maybe you just read. https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/how-trolls-locked-my-twitter-account-for-10-days-and-welp?utm_term=.dxX2QOO9Z#.pqBLdrrJN https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/how-trolls-locked-m...

This seems like a good way to make twitter even more toxic than it already is. If you're afraid of your tweets coming back to haunt you later on, maybe you shouldn't be tweeting those things.

mobilefriendly 9y ago

You never know when politically correct culture, which grows more intolerant and authoritarian by the day, will shift against something you said once on Twitter.

perfectapologia 9y ago

is this consciously apologia for enslaving oneself to moral fashion, or do you hold this opinion unaware of the terrible consequences?

danielvf 9y ago

In the 1930’s, it became a crime (in a certain large country) to think that plants had genes that gave heritable traits. Thousands of scientists, biologists, agricultural researchers and others were imprisioned or executed for disagreeing or previously having held the wrong view. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism Sure, there a lot of evil and stupidity said on Twitter, and through human history. But not everyone who is punished for what they said was saying something wrong.

troutwine 9y ago

I dunno. I delete my tweets after a year. I do it not because I'm afraid of anything coming back to bite me but because I'm opposed to being perpetually archived. Some day I will die. I'd prefer not to leave any carelessly produced ghosts of myself behind, if I can help it.

27182818284 9y ago

I think it could make it less toxic by allowing the long tail of users to delete things that may have come off-the-cuff, in a heated moment, or are simply cringeworthy when you look back on them.

DoreenMichele 9y ago

Or maybe you just read. https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/how-trolls-locked-my-twitter-account-for-10-days-and-welp?utm_term=.dxX2QOO9Z#.pqBLdrrJN https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/how-trolls-locked-m...