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I am worried that ultimately this means that the twitter of the future will be something where people can't be deplatformed. It's been pretty effective in the p
by nathanvanfleet 7y ago
I am worried that ultimately this means that the twitter of the future will be something where people can't be deplatformed. It's been pretty effective in the past to deplatform some outrageous individuals who have stoked racial hatred and violence. They get deplatformed, and their audience disappears. There are a lot of places where hate speech is illegal. And I know that Twitter has had huge problems when called to censor things and making it completely decentralized would allow them not have to.
Also it's weird but Jack follows Cernovich.
- paggle 7y agoWell others of us are sick of deplatforming regardless of the speaker.
- dcolkitt 7y agoEven if you think the current usage of deplatforming has been positive, it poses a huge black swan risk. If our major communication platforms expose a centralized censorship mechanism, that becomes a deliciously tempting target to be leveraged by authoritarian regimes. Even if I trust the Twitter mod team, what's to stop tomorrow's jack-booted thugs from shooting the Twitter team and seizing control of the servers? I'd much rather we as a society move to decentralized censorship-resistant networks while we still have the freedom to openly build and advocate for them. I really doubt that banning Hitler's social media accounts in the 1920s would have done anything to stop the Nazi rise to power. Whereas in the 1930s, rest assured that centralized platforms would have made the Gestapo's life a hundred times easier.
- darkwizard42 7y agoThen people stop using Twitter... The solution to your problem is quite simple. The network will die off.