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"And there are certain issues where Twitter has stated that you simply aren't allowed to take an opposing view or you'll be kicked off their platform." such as?
by agentdrtran 4y ago
"And there are certain issues where Twitter has stated that you simply aren't allowed to take an opposing view or you'll be kicked off their platform." such as?
- philosopher1234 4y agoIt’ll be something about race
- cr__ 4y agoWhat do you mean?
- tdfx 4y agoThere was a time when you weren't allowed to say that the SARS-COV-2 might've leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan. That's the most prominent, indefensible example of moderation gone awry and proof that the censorship model can be successfully abused by bad actors to suppress potentially valid opposing views. Imagine how many other issues have been suppressed but haven't reached the level of visibility that issue did.
- wrycoder 4y agoYou still can’t, apparently.
- panarky 4y agoCitation needed.
- cr__ 4y agoYou were absolutely allowed to say that, you just weren’t allowed to assert that it was definitely leaked from the lab. You’ve fallen for the false grievances pushed by blatant con men like Alex Berenson.
- tdfx 4y agoI don't know who Alex Berenson is or what he's said about this topic but another example you could use is "limiting the dissemination" of the Hunter Biden laptop story, which also has now returned to the news as a viable story despite being buried during the election cycle. I don't really care about the details of these stories, it doesn't affect me if the virus came from a lab or how deep the corruption runs in the Biden family. But any rational person without a political agenda has to agree that the censorship system as it exists is ripe for abuse by bad actors. These two examples in particular completely changed my viewpoint on moderation and I no longer see Facebook or Twitter fighting "misinformation" as a good thing given how easily they can be manipulated into denying valid information. They simply cannot be trusted to identify what is or isn't misinformation.
- themitigating 4y agoIf you are trying to come off as center and non-political why do you assert there's corruption in the Biden family and the only question is how much?
- throwawayacc2 4y ago
- themitigating 4y agoNo one brought up the Clintons. Provide a source that proves your accusation about corruption with the Biden's
- throwawayacc2 4y ago
- themitigating 4y agoYou made the accusation about Biden. I'm asking for a source that proves that accusation.
- roguecoder 4y agoBaseless racist accusations that led to multiple real-world violent attacks aren't "opposing views": they are blood libel.
- tdfx 4y agoYou just put the problem into focus. Trump pushing the lab leak hypothesis and using the term "China virus" is indisputably a xenophobic dog whistle to a racist subset of his base. But that doesn't mean the lab leak hypothesis and any discussion of it is racist, and based on what's been uncovered since, it's certainly not a baseless accusation. Trump has used this tactic effectively many times in the past: he says something that makes sense ("we need border security") in such a racist and distasteful way that causes the opposition to kneejerk react against whatever policy he's proposing, forcing them to take a position that's at odds with common sense ("border walls are racist!"). It's possible he may have had some classified information about the lab leak being a feasible story, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it was just one of the thousands of things he blabbers uncontrollably about and this particular one luckily happened to have some truth to it.