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They said nothing about Twitter's behavior being strange. They said the strange part is people applauding Twitter's content moderation for certain topics, whil
by oarabbus_ 4y ago
They said nothing about Twitter's behavior being strange. They said the strange part is people applauding Twitter's content moderation for certain topics, while justifying their inaction on others.
- sangnoir 4y ago> They said the strange part is people applauding Twitter's content moderation for certain topics, while justifying their inaction on others. There's nothing strange about that either - Twitter only acts to moderate when it has context and/or gets bad press. It's no surprise that American hot-button issues are the most moderated[1] by Twitter, and less sor for heinous, explicit threats to life in a language spoken by < 1 million speakers halfway around the world, or election misinformation in Kenya. That sort of thing never gets on Twitter's radar, and shouldn't come as a surprise. 1. This is a result of resource constraints, and Twitter's own sense of self-preservation. There is only one jurisdiction that can dissolve Twitter, and is also likely its largest revenue source; naturally, that gets an outsized fraction of Twitter's limited engineer-hours and moderator-hours.
- oarabbus_ 4y agoNo, read their post again. They're referring to people's perception of Twitter enforcement being strange, not twitter's enforcement.