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"It provides no value except to the bad actor and other bad actors. If every time you were having a conversation at a bar someone butted in to talk to you about
by throwaway5752 8y ago
"It provides no value except to the bad actor and other bad actors. If every time you were having a conversation at a bar someone butted in to talk to you about chemtrails you would stop visiting that bar until the person was asked to leave"
Thank you for saying this. It can't be said enough that the Twitter platform is not a public accomodation, and that Twitter needs to make a choice between banning troll and/or abusive accounts and convincing more valuable people to stay on their platform. We seem to be having a collective problem telling the guy with the chemtrail stories that he's the a-hole even though he strongly believes otherwise.
I came across this: http://ritholtz.com/2018/07/self-inflicted-wounds-drag-facebook/ http://ritholtz.com/2018/07/self-inflicted-wounds-drag-faceb... and he also said it well:
"But the bottom line is this: once you welcome holocaust deniers onto to your property, because, Hey! Its just their opinion! you have crossed a certain line. Other people — moral, rational, intelligent human beings who prefer reality to the fake ideological insanity these folks live in — they begin to say good-bye, and in increasingly larger numbers. People like Alex Jones who say Sandy Hook never happened, the birthers 9/11 truthers — thats a dinner party I won’t be attending."
- repolfx 8y agoIn practice people don't leave, do they? Instead they pile on and try to harass chemtrails guy into leaving. Twitter is not a bar, so this is not a good analogy. Twitter has infinite space and is specifically intended for the exchange of opinions, not drinking.