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Jack Dorsey (CEO) and Vijaya Gadde (global lead for legal, policy, and trust and safety) from Twitter recently was interviewed on Joe Rogan's podcast along with
by brodouevencode 8y ago
Jack Dorsey (CEO) and Vijaya Gadde (global lead for legal, policy, and trust and safety) from Twitter recently was interviewed on Joe Rogan's podcast along with Twitter critic and journalist Tim Pool.
Link to the stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ
I have some criticisms of Twitter that tightly align with what Dr. Doyle experienced, what was discussed on Rogan's podcast, and my own experiences:
* Twitter is not a free speech platform, regardless of what Mr. Dorsey and Ms. Gadde say. They have prior assumptions that guide their decision making especially when it comes to identifying what is called hate speech.
* Twitter is largely guided and controlled by progressive ideals. The people that make decisions there admittedly live in a bubble. Tim Pool does a very good job of pointing this out.
* Twitter is a giant echo chamber. The limited functionality of the platform make it that way.
* Twitter cannot be completely free speech because it allows it's algorithms to run wild. We've already seen where ML can be viewed as racist (https://towardsdatascience.com/the-new-hot-take-machine-learning-is-racist-1319943cf1fe https://towardsdatascience.com/the-new-hot-take-machine-lear..., https://medium.com/source-institute/how-to-stop-racist-ai-de401556dc8 https://medium.com/source-institute/how-to-stop-racist-ai-de...). Presumably Twitter's algorithms can be shaped in such a way to allow extreme progressive ideals to make decisions.
* Unlike Reddit, which has decentralized command over it's sub-reddits, Twitter has a centralized decision making body of which is too small to look closely at the nuance and detail of every report.
* The suggested jury review system only re-enforces the echo chamber problem Twitter already has. It's different than American/English common law juris prudence in that there are relatively no bounds, no tight controls on what can be said and discussed by a judge.
* For every account ban, Twitter should publish a chain of reasoning for the ban. Twitter only bans (at least, this is their claim) based on the content of public tweets and not DMs. Since the tweets are already public providing that chain should not be an issue.
In my mind Twitter is no less evil than Facebook.