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I wonder if there’s a case to be made that continuing to provide a platform to Alex Jones effectively creates a toxic working environment for Twitter employees.
by splitrocket 8y ago
I wonder if there’s a case to be made that continuing to provide a platform to Alex Jones effectively creates a toxic working environment for Twitter employees.
Could be a great deal of liability there.
- willio58 8y agoWhat about the other hundreds of thousands of outwardly racist twitter users? Just ban them all? They’ll just congregate in their own communities.
- splitrocket 8y agoWell, the key element, I’d imagine in such a suit would be knowledge of and active approval of such behavior. If the executives knowingly and willfully continue to allow white supremacists and people like Alex Jones, then enterprising Twitter employees who fit a certain profile might never need to work again.
- WiseWeasel 8y agoWhy is it a problem for Twitter if they push the hate elsewhere? Of course accounts publishing outwardly racist or otherwise bigoted content should be banned, just like they'd get insta-banned from HN. That's what makes this a nice place, unlike Twitter.
- alphabettsy 8y agoMaybe they should stop allowing anonymity then? Like communities who disallowed hooded marchers to discourage the Klan.