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(in response to the original tweet) People are governed by social rules in the "Town Square". If you say something people don't like, you will face consequences

(in response to the original tweet) People are governed by social rules in the "Town Square". If you say something people don't like, you will face consequences (whether that be legal, social or physical). The same is always true on twitter. It's just that you can reach millions of people rather than hundreds. I don't know if our social or legal systems have caught up with this international instant explosion yet. Until that happens, I'm all for moderation (even if it can ban the wrong parties sometimes). I see it as an overall net positive.

conradludgate 5y ago
People joke about 'safe spaces', but it's necessary. People live their lives online now. And we increasingly don't have control over what we see and read. The spaces absolutely need to be accommodating to the most people as a consequence of that
- scaramanga 5y ago
  But billionaires need the safe spaces. Before twitter the rich would stay behind their castle walls rather than spouting off in public, or they'd do well enough to bring an army with them when they want to go to the town square. Elon seems to be aghast at the idea that twitters Praetorian guard doesn't exist entirely for his benefit. Occupational hazard of being a titan among mortal men I guess.
mhitza 5y ago
> People are governed by social rules in the "Town Square". If you say something people don't like, you will face consequences People are less confrontational in real life, than the internet would make it appear. On the downside the internet also tends to remove nuance from content, thus it seems hard to assess if a comment belong to abrasive characters, people that badly express their controversial point of view, or trolls using sarcasm. At least that's my impression about Twitter uproars I see spill to other platforms ocassionaly. Disclosure: I have no idea what the original context is, which sparked of the Twitter clone comment by pg.

conradludgate 5y ago

People joke about 'safe spaces', but it's necessary. People live their lives online now. And we increasingly don't have control over what we see and read. The spaces absolutely need to be accommodating to the most people as a consequence of that

scaramanga 5y ago
But billionaires need the safe spaces. Before twitter the rich would stay behind their castle walls rather than spouting off in public, or they'd do well enough to bring an army with them when they want to go to the town square. Elon seems to be aghast at the idea that twitters Praetorian guard doesn't exist entirely for his benefit. Occupational hazard of being a titan among mortal men I guess.

mhitza 5y ago

> People are governed by social rules in the "Town Square". If you say something people don't like, you will face consequences People are less confrontational in real life, than the internet would make it appear. On the downside the internet also tends to remove nuance from content, thus it seems hard to assess if a comment belong to abrasive characters, people that badly express their controversial point of view, or trolls using sarcasm. At least that's my impression about Twitter uproars I see spill to other platforms ocassionaly. Disclosure: I have no idea what the original context is, which sparked of the Twitter clone comment by pg.