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I do not think that @jack will have an easy time of it in the months to come. Whatever he does will cause someone to enter into frothing ragegasms directed at h
by olefoo 8y ago
I do not think that @jack will have an easy time of it in the months to come. Whatever he does will cause someone to enter into frothing ragegasms directed at him and the company.
Yet, it's clear that twitter cannot maintain it's status as "the place where everybody wants to be because it's where everybody is." without taking steps to protect the quality of the experience and the integrity of it's audience.
The discomfort that Dorsey and Zuckerberg have with enforcing something like a reality principle on their platform may have been praiseworthy and of noble intent; but we're starting to understand that the second order effects of letting people undermine public perceptions of truth and validity have serious consequences that are damaging if not fatal to the society that hosts these platforms and the workers that build and operate them.
- djantje 8y agoIf that is true (undermining public perceptions of thruth and validity) Then I think there are two options available: - Censorship - Education What would you choose, and think works in the long run?
- O2F2 8y agoMy personal believe is that neither work out in a way we'd like it to. Censorship can, under the right circumstances, be effective but requires either a very delicate hand and be more or less invisible or oppressing the opposition until it exhausted itself one way or another. Sometimes it seems to work out only to end up reinforcing believes, leading to a deeper internalization and radicalization. Education requires focused, continued, honest effort. It requires rolling that damn boulder up the hill until the hill itself starts to erode under your feet. It's a excruciatingly slow process. And it's so easy to forget that it needs to be a dialog no matter how much you think you're right. I'm a strong advocate for the latter, but it's easy to see why so many gravitate to the former.
- lylecubed 8y agoHave you considered that you're on the wrong side of this one? Twitter has been mass banning right wing figures for over two years now, including Republican candidates for Congress. It hasn't made the platform any better. If anything, the platform continues to degrade with every politically-oriented mass banning.