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So, Google does a lot of good, and a lot of harm, because it's a huge company with a lot of power. Twitter, his new employer, does essentially no good. It pro

So, Google does a lot of good, and a lot of harm, because it's a huge company with a lot of power. Twitter, his new employer, does essentially no good. It provides nothing that email didn't give us, except a lot more screaming and incentives towards polarizing behavior that makes us collectively stupider. That he thinks Twitter is ethically superior to Google is mind-boggling to me.

eljimmy 5y ago
I don't think it's fair to compare the users of Twitter's service with Google as a company. Those are two very different groups of people. One are users, one are employees. I feel it's also worth mentioning, focusing only on the small negative groups of Twitter's public users reminds me of this comic here: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-04-07 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-04-07
mandmandam 5y ago
Twitter has certainly done a loooot of harm, but to be fair it has done good as well. It wouldn't have grown like it did if people found no use for it.
- rossdavidh 5y ago
  Sometimes, people use something, even though it does them no good.
- tolbish 5y ago
  For a second it seemed like you were about to list the good Twitter has done.
- blackbrokkoli 5y ago
  Are you seriously implying that "people finding a use for it" is somehow proof for doing good? Like, that's such a giant leap I struggle to even call it leap. If someone would give the perpetually drugged up guys in front of my local McDonald's a bunch of Semtex-H, I am sure they would find it quite useful, but I also doubt that the world will become a better place.
  - mandmandam 5y ago
    If you care to do your own search for why people like Twitter, I'm sure you can find reasons. And, since apparently you need this spelled out, the reasons are quite dissimilar to the reasons "drugged up guys" would find explosives useful.
    - CRConrad 5y ago
      If all you're going to do is say "Google for it!", then you don't get to make the claim. Any claim.
- pc86 5y ago
  Using something is different than providing good, and using something is different than finding "a use" for it. You'd be hard pressed to name objectively positive things Twitter has done, which I imagine is why you didn't.
  - mandmandam 5y ago
    No, I don't because it's incredibly easy for people to type "benefits of Twitter" into the search engine of their choice. Astoundingly, you're not the first person to imply that there is literally no benefit to Twitter whatsoever, despite the awesome ease of finding the benefits by typing two or three words into DDG. That doesn't change the facts though.

eljimmy 5y ago

I don't think it's fair to compare the users of Twitter's service with Google as a company. Those are two very different groups of people. One are users, one are employees. I feel it's also worth mentioning, focusing only on the small negative groups of Twitter's public users reminds me of this comic here: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-04-07 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-04-07

mandmandam 5y ago

Twitter has certainly done a loooot of harm, but to be fair it has done good as well. It wouldn't have grown like it did if people found no use for it.

rossdavidh 5y ago
Sometimes, people use something, even though it does them no good.
tolbish 5y ago
For a second it seemed like you were about to list the good Twitter has done.
blackbrokkoli 5y ago
Are you seriously implying that "people finding a use for it" is somehow proof for doing good? Like, that's such a giant leap I struggle to even call it leap. If someone would give the perpetually drugged up guys in front of my local McDonald's a bunch of Semtex-H, I am sure they would find it quite useful, but I also doubt that the world will become a better place.
- mandmandam 5y ago
  If you care to do your own search for why people like Twitter, I'm sure you can find reasons. And, since apparently you need this spelled out, the reasons are quite dissimilar to the reasons "drugged up guys" would find explosives useful.
  - CRConrad 5y ago
    If all you're going to do is say "Google for it!", then you don't get to make the claim. Any claim.
pc86 5y ago
Using something is different than providing good, and using something is different than finding "a use" for it. You'd be hard pressed to name objectively positive things Twitter has done, which I imagine is why you didn't.
- mandmandam 5y ago
  No, I don't because it's incredibly easy for people to type "benefits of Twitter" into the search engine of their choice. Astoundingly, you're not the first person to imply that there is literally no benefit to Twitter whatsoever, despite the awesome ease of finding the benefits by typing two or three words into DDG. That doesn't change the facts though.