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Note that they said nothing about being sorry for being a platform that facilitates hate, just that it showed up as a topic.
by MrZongle2 8y ago
Note that they said nothing about being sorry for being a platform that facilitates hate, just that it showed up as a topic.
- twblalock 8y agoAny platform that facilitates people saying what they want to say is going to facilitate hate speech, because some people are racists. The platforms can try to prevent that, and Twitter does try. But it is simply not possible to catch everything unless every single tweet is reviewed by a human censor. That won't scale, but even if it did, the censors would not always be trustworthy. Some people seem to be convinced that we can have large social platforms free of hate speech and fake news. It's not possible, because of the users.
- gowld 8y agoUsers have been begging Twitter to try to build abuse controls for years, to deaf hears.
- camdenlock 8y agoI don't understand this argument. Haven't they done just this over the past 4 years or so? Enhanced blocking and muting controls, etc. What more needs to be done? It's up to individuals to curate their own social environments.
- twblalock 8y agoIt’s pretty clear that some people on the left would complain about abuse on Twitter unless abuse tools were 100% effective, which is not achievable. And simply implementing such tools would draw the ire of people on the right, including the party that currently controls the presidency and the congress. Twitter is in a no-win situation here.
- icedchai 8y agoShould they apologize for human nature? People facilitate hate, no matter what the platform.