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> reports on “tweets,” It's no different than reporting on anything else that someone says in a public forum. Since there are real consequences for what you s

> reports on “tweets,” It's no different than reporting on anything else that someone says in a public forum. Since there are real consequences for what you say in a public forum, it is understandable that there is an appeals process.

wfhordie 5y ago
> It's no different than reporting on anything else that someone says in a public forum. Public forums, like in-person public forums, have much more context and many more barriers to being heard. In a supply-and-demand, signal-v.-noise sense, I find Twitter to be extremely low value, on the order of whatever the homeless fellow on my street shouts about (it’s usually extremely racist, homophobic, and disconnected from reality —- three traits his content shares with Twitter). > Since there are real consequences for what you say in a public forum, it is understandable that there is an appeals process. I don’t share the view that getting banned from Twitter is a ‘real consequence’ because I have never been on Twitter and yet, here I am, no worse for wear.
- matwood 5y ago
  > I find Twitter to be extremely low value, on the order of whatever the homeless fellow on my street shouts about A lot like the real world. If a homeless person is standing across the street from the Whitehouse shouting nonsense no one cares. If POTUS comes out and says we're going to war, it matters. That's why what people say on Twitter is reported on in the news.
- givemeethekeys 5y ago
  I wish getting banned from Twitter was the worst thing that could possibly happen to you for sharing an unpopular opinion.
robonerd 5y ago
Reporting on tweets is the modern version "man on the street" interviews from television news. That is to say, essentially worthless. They never tell you how many interviews they did or how many tweets they read before they found the one or two they chose to support their predetermined narrative.

wfhordie 5y ago

> It's no different than reporting on anything else that someone says in a public forum. Public forums, like in-person public forums, have much more context and many more barriers to being heard. In a supply-and-demand, signal-v.-noise sense, I find Twitter to be extremely low value, on the order of whatever the homeless fellow on my street shouts about (it’s usually extremely racist, homophobic, and disconnected from reality —- three traits his content shares with Twitter). > Since there are real consequences for what you say in a public forum, it is understandable that there is an appeals process. I don’t share the view that getting banned from Twitter is a ‘real consequence’ because I have never been on Twitter and yet, here I am, no worse for wear.

matwood 5y ago
> I find Twitter to be extremely low value, on the order of whatever the homeless fellow on my street shouts about A lot like the real world. If a homeless person is standing across the street from the Whitehouse shouting nonsense no one cares. If POTUS comes out and says we're going to war, it matters. That's why what people say on Twitter is reported on in the news.
givemeethekeys 5y ago
I wish getting banned from Twitter was the worst thing that could possibly happen to you for sharing an unpopular opinion.

robonerd 5y ago

Reporting on tweets is the modern version "man on the street" interviews from television news. That is to say, essentially worthless. They never tell you how many interviews they did or how many tweets they read before they found the one or two they chose to support their predetermined narrative.