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If you view it as a pure engineering problem, sure, but the problem with managing social media companies hasn't been "we can't figure out how to store and displ
by ryanbrunner 4y ago
If you view it as a pure engineering problem, sure, but the problem with managing social media companies hasn't been "we can't figure out how to store and display 280 character messages at high scale" in a long, long time. How to properly moderate social media to control some of its worst tendencies has been a very visible and very difficult issue for pretty much every social media company for the past 10 years.
- tomrod 4y agoMusk brings a highly ideological approach to this already, giving it a de facto resolution.
- ryanbrunner 4y agoThere's a resolution, but any resolution will bring additional problems. If Musk's approach brings increased radicalization along with it, that's not a solved problem, even if you don't particularly care about radicalization (since the media definitely will and you're painting a bullseye on yourself).
- pyronik19 4y ago>How to properly moderate social media to control some of its worst tendencies has been a very visible and very difficult issue for pretty much every social media company for the past 10 years. Define "worst tendencies", because most people agree that "doxxing" and calls to violence are unacceptable but the left has just labeled all speech that they disagree with as "violence" or "misinformation" and just banned it all. I think musk has a good pulse on the dividing line that is most appropriate and that having the wrong opinion on the definition of a man, who won the last presidential election, and whether or not a vaccine is "safe or effective" have no business being censored by the cretins currently running twitter.
- bombcar 4y agoNobody really cares about doxing as long as it is down against people they don’t like.