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I’m not tracking with you. Who’s compelling Twitter to impose restrictions on what they, Twitter, reckon is hate speech? And why isn’t this entity compelling 4c

I’m not tracking with you. Who’s compelling Twitter to impose restrictions on what they, Twitter, reckon is hate speech? And why isn’t this entity compelling 4chan to do the same?

bilbo0s 7y ago
At the hearings in DC the Senators made it clear that any election interference detected on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, (no one else was dragged into the hearings), would result in significant penalties. This is why there was all of a sudden an enormous push by these companies to start things like "labeling fake news", or "not promoting political content". They are going to be held accountable for it. Point being, they're going to be held accountable in any case. That's resulted in just an almost shotgun approach to political stuff to the point where they sometimes even shut down legit political candidate accounts. In addition, they're being radically transparent with the government agencies in the form of data feeds so they can never be said to have let election interference content through. (Because they gave that content to the government agents and the agents didn't evaluate it as election interference either.) So they are no longer masters in their own homes in any case. No idea why they don't compel 4chan to do the same? Politics maybe? That's just a guess. I'm thinking maybe the politicians have already run all the numbers and they know that the people who frequent 4chan are typically not the 65 year olds who swing elections. So who cares what the nugget heads do? Again though, that's just a guess. But who knows really?
- 0x445442 7y ago
  I see. Yeah, to be clear, I'm NOT for the government getting involved at all. My take on the DC hearings is it was just a smoke screen because they're scared to death of a trend materializing that non-career politicians can get elected and actually do the bidding of those that elected them. That and their afraid of losing control of the narrative. As for Twitter, I'm not sold on the damned if we do damned if we don't picture you're painting. I think Twitter has a definite agenda and they'd be policing speech and de-platforming those they don't agree with regardless of the politicians.

I’m not tracking with you. Who’s compelling Twitter to impose restrictions on what they, Twitter, reckon is hate speech? And why isn’t this entity compelling 4chan to do the same?

bilbo0s 7y ago

At the hearings in DC the Senators made it clear that any election interference detected on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, (no one else was dragged into the hearings), would result in significant penalties. This is why there was all of a sudden an enormous push by these companies to start things like "labeling fake news", or "not promoting political content". They are going to be held accountable for it. Point being, they're going to be held accountable in any case. That's resulted in just an almost shotgun approach to political stuff to the point where they sometimes even shut down legit political candidate accounts. In addition, they're being radically transparent with the government agencies in the form of data feeds so they can never be said to have let election interference content through. (Because they gave that content to the government agents and the agents didn't evaluate it as election interference either.) So they are no longer masters in their own homes in any case. No idea why they don't compel 4chan to do the same? Politics maybe? That's just a guess. I'm thinking maybe the politicians have already run all the numbers and they know that the people who frequent 4chan are typically not the 65 year olds who swing elections. So who cares what the nugget heads do? Again though, that's just a guess. But who knows really?

0x445442 7y ago
I see. Yeah, to be clear, I'm NOT for the government getting involved at all. My take on the DC hearings is it was just a smoke screen because they're scared to death of a trend materializing that non-career politicians can get elected and actually do the bidding of those that elected them. That and their afraid of losing control of the narrative. As for Twitter, I'm not sold on the damned if we do damned if we don't picture you're painting. I think Twitter has a definite agenda and they'd be policing speech and de-platforming those they don't agree with regardless of the politicians.