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This may seem like a wild take, but perhaps it's worth entertaining that social media moderation as it exists today could be a significant impediment to the rea
by prvc 4y ago
This may seem like a wild take, but perhaps it's worth entertaining that social media moderation as it exists today could be a significant impediment to the realization of those goals.
- krona 4y agoMusk himself has said as much.
- oblio 4y agoWhat's his alternative, though? Just saying "no" is like saying nothing, it's worthless.
- oblio 4y agoWhat's the alternative though? 0 moderation is what we had with email, and that was called spam. The only "legitimate" alternative is the legal process and that's too slow. Personally, my lack of imagination makes me say we don't have an alternative right now.
- prvc 4y agoStatus quo moderation also ignores spam, and I'd expect that aspect to change in the direction of more moderation under Musk. "0 moderation" was never on the table.
- oblio 4y ago> "0 moderation" was never on the table. I don't know how to interpret this, in that case. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344
- boringg 4y agoHe's definitely going to minimal moderation. It lines with his stance and it lines with the business cost. The risk is people turn off the service because it becomes even worse than it's current state.
- foobarian 4y agoMake posters pay $10/year and/or require government ID. Good luck, Russian troll farms!
- kylecordes 4y agoThis version of Twitter would be much better. But it might also be much, much smaller.
- leadingthenet 4y agoGood.
- spupe 4y agoAre you saying that we cannot properly address climate change because of... checks notes Twitter's moderation policies?
- hans1729 4y agoAre you saying that restricting the flow of information does not ... checks comment restrict our flow of information?
- DoughnutHole 4y agoLet me know when you find evidence of some valuable piece of climate, energy, or astronautics research that was kept under wraps due to the Twitter police. Censorship is a very real threat to scientific research but it tends to manifest as the state restricting research or pulling funding from politically unfavourable topics like climate change, as is seen in many American state governments and on a federal level under the previous administration. Scientific publication isn't exactly known for going through the channels of mass social media.
- hans1729 4y agoI never mentioned censorship, which is a loaded and mostly useless (because agonizing and polarizing) term. I talked about flow of information. Science isn’t done on twitter, and twitter is not for scientists or those able and willing to read papers. Twitter is for the 90% who rely on groups, and the more tooling we implement that incentivizes those groups to devalue intellectual depth, the more we restrict the flow of actual information at scale. Policing who is able to distribute which data is, simply put, harmful to the organism.
- spupe 4y agoFiltering can improve the signal-to-noise ratio dramatically. We have always had some moderation/editing on books, newspapers, scientific papers and many other forums of meaningful exchange for centuries, and we progressed just fine. I
- smt88 4y agoPlease explain how social media moderation is keeping us using fossil fuels. I would argue the opposite: moderation reduces paid corporate shills (when done correctly).
- rklaehn 4y agoIndeed. The window of opinion that is allowed on twitter is anti space exploration and frankly anti-human. Elon needs a way to sway public opinion to allow mars settlement. Twitter might be that. Currently, SpaceX is blocked from doing the first starship orbital test. Not for technical reasons, but for frankly totally bullshit bureaucratic reasons. A free speech twitter might be the right way to fight back against this government overreach.