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Twitter is minimally regulated, is obviously & clearly an open place for conversation, in a way no other big social network is. Further, Twitter's own research
by rektide 5y ago
Twitter is minimally regulated, is obviously & clearly an open place for conversation, in a way no other big social network is.
Further, Twitter's own research shows they have more broadly amplified the right than the left. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28953427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28953427 I for one could not be less shocked.
There is no great vast system working against a view. It's just not so. Governing a platform is hard, keeping things on the rails is hard. Not every decision is easy & clean & obvious. Saying- this is not a democratic platform, this doesn't allow open conversation, is working against me- seems patently clearly obviously heinously untrue. 99.999999999999% of conversations go unmediated, unhindered. To try to grind an axe over this is, to portray Twitter as some horrible biased agent twisting things to it's desired world view, is to me, is to threaten obvious social order that exists, is to call fire where there is none. It creates a sense of agency & power & competency & deliberateness which in no way reflects anything resembling reality.