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Then twitter is not a public square. It's disney world where you are allowed fun with parameters.

by ipaddr 5y ago

noTooMooch 5y ago
300 million monthly active users including noise on Twitter. Last I checked there are 7+ billion humans. It’s a town square in Elons hyperbolic narcissistic imagination. It’s where westerners shit post at each other, not a town square
nemothekid 5y ago
The argument is whether Twitter should be a public square. It's pretty ironic people are obsessed with the public square metaphor when American try their damned hardest to eliminate any public square via zoning. I doubt, and not really concerned that Twitter will become a den for Nazis. If you look at the actions of the Twitter moderation team, you will find that they don't do all that much and in fact Twitter is pretty much self moderated. You get cancelled by the mob, not Jack Dorsey. It's this fact that should be watched - will Elon enforce free speech by silencing the mob of dissenting opinion? This is how public squares actually operate. If I begin hollering at the top of my lungs in the middle of a public square either (1) everyone leaves or (2) I'm violently removed. I don't know what free speech haven people are looking for; even 4chan has rules.
Lutger 5y ago
Nazi's rallying to kill Jews, or Jihadi to behead infidels, is not something that is normally allowed on a public square either. Does that make the entire public space in Western countries a Disneyland in your opinion?
- ipaddr 5y ago
  Nazis rallying to kill Jews and Jews rallying to kill Nazis are allowed in different countries in different time periods and forbidden at different times or places. Disneyworld not Disneyland or euro Disney. Disneyworld has a corporate vision of family, happiness which is at odds with the way they are run internally.
femiagbabiaka 5y ago
Then there are no public squares on the internet. Even 4Chan has rules and moderation.
- krapp 5y ago
  Bingo. There never were "public squares" on the internet. Every site has always been someone's private fiefdom. Every social media platform has always been a business, and no matter how big it is, it doesn't automatically become public property. Also freedom of speech doesn't guarantee the right to a platform. All this used to be common knowledge until a few years ago.
- ipaddr 5y ago
  Public squares in real life have rules and moderation.

Then twitter is not a public square. It's disney world where you are allowed fun with parameters.

by ipaddr 5y ago

Then twitter is not a public square. It's disney world where you are allowed fun with parameters.

300 million monthly active users including noise on Twitter. Last I checked there are 7+ billion humans. It’s a town square in Elons hyperbolic narcissistic imagination. It’s where westerners shit post at each other, not a town square

nemothekid 5y ago

The argument is whether Twitter should be a public square. It's pretty ironic people are obsessed with the public square metaphor when American try their damned hardest to eliminate any public square via zoning. I doubt, and not really concerned that Twitter will become a den for Nazis. If you look at the actions of the Twitter moderation team, you will find that they don't do all that much and in fact Twitter is pretty much self moderated. You get cancelled by the mob, not Jack Dorsey. It's this fact that should be watched - will Elon enforce free speech by silencing the mob of dissenting opinion? This is how public squares actually operate. If I begin hollering at the top of my lungs in the middle of a public square either (1) everyone leaves or (2) I'm violently removed. I don't know what free speech haven people are looking for; even 4chan has rules.

Lutger 5y ago

Nazi's rallying to kill Jews, or Jihadi to behead infidels, is not something that is normally allowed on a public square either. Does that make the entire public space in Western countries a Disneyland in your opinion?

ipaddr 5y ago
Nazis rallying to kill Jews and Jews rallying to kill Nazis are allowed in different countries in different time periods and forbidden at different times or places. Disneyworld not Disneyland or euro Disney. Disneyworld has a corporate vision of family, happiness which is at odds with the way they are run internally.

femiagbabiaka 5y ago

Then there are no public squares on the internet. Even 4Chan has rules and moderation.

krapp 5y ago
Bingo. There never were "public squares" on the internet. Every site has always been someone's private fiefdom. Every social media platform has always been a business, and no matter how big it is, it doesn't automatically become public property. Also freedom of speech doesn't guarantee the right to a platform. All this used to be common knowledge until a few years ago.
ipaddr 5y ago
Public squares in real life have rules and moderation.