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Good for Twitter and good for Facebook for once not bowing down to conservative demands to allow them to spread untrue propaganda and conspiracies (https://www.

by rat87 6y ago

Good for Twitter and good for Facebook for once not bowing down to conservative demands to allow them to spread untrue propaganda and conspiracies (https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357663/facebook-removed-strikes-conservative-fact-checking-banned-breitbart https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357663/facebook-removed-...) I'm very surprised so many people have a problem with this. I'm even more surprised people are demanding that forums and social media be stripped of the ability to moderate porn, spam, and vile personal attacks (ie not be able to moderate anything not illegal). Oh plus conspiracies and racism. This would likely turn most forums including HN into trash

hartator 6y ago
Was the email not real?
_qulr 6y ago
> I'm even more surprised people are demanding that forums and social media be stripped of the ability to moderate porn, spam, and vile personal attacks (ie not be able to moderate anything not illegal). Oh plus conspiracies and racism. This would likely turn most forums including HN into trash Have you... seen Twitter? It's full of porn, spam, vile personal attacks, conspiracies, and racism. These things are mostly not moderated on Twitter. Maybe Twitter claims to moderate them, but the reality does not reflect that at all. The main reason we see controversy over social media censorship is that it's extremely selective, haphazard, inconsistent, and often misdirected. There's no apparent general principles behind the individual decisions, though principles are often trotted out ex post facto when required for PR.
- rat87 6y ago
  >Have you... seen Twitter? It's full of porn, spam, vile personal attacks, conspiracies, and racism. These things are mostly not moderated on Twitter. So good thing they're trying for a change? That doesn't mean I agree with their moderation as a whole but they seem to have tried to do the right thing here
kanwisher 6y ago
Welcome to 1984 where social media overlords get to decide what we are allowed to see and read. If it goes against their ideas they can ban it

by rat87 6y ago

hartator 6y ago

Was the email not real?

_qulr 6y ago

> I'm even more surprised people are demanding that forums and social media be stripped of the ability to moderate porn, spam, and vile personal attacks (ie not be able to moderate anything not illegal). Oh plus conspiracies and racism. This would likely turn most forums including HN into trash Have you... seen Twitter? It's full of porn, spam, vile personal attacks, conspiracies, and racism. These things are mostly not moderated on Twitter. Maybe Twitter claims to moderate them, but the reality does not reflect that at all. The main reason we see controversy over social media censorship is that it's extremely selective, haphazard, inconsistent, and often misdirected. There's no apparent general principles behind the individual decisions, though principles are often trotted out ex post facto when required for PR.

rat87 6y ago
>Have you... seen Twitter? It's full of porn, spam, vile personal attacks, conspiracies, and racism. These things are mostly not moderated on Twitter. So good thing they're trying for a change? That doesn't mean I agree with their moderation as a whole but they seem to have tried to do the right thing here

kanwisher 6y ago

Welcome to 1984 where social media overlords get to decide what we are allowed to see and read. If it goes against their ideas they can ban it