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Stock up on the popcorn because once he lets the nutters loose on twitter to say anything and everything they want without limit other than a direct personal

Stock up on the popcorn because once he lets the nutters loose on twitter to say anything and everything they want without limit other than a direct personal threat to someone or directly advocating terrorist actions, it's gonna be a real shit hole. That is if he wants to watch his $44 billion go up in smoke, no sane person will stay there amongst the nuts and Q's

nullc 4y ago
> other than a direct personal threat to someon twitter limiting direct personal threats would be a welcome change.
ajvs 4y ago
It's already a woke echo chamber. Anything he can do to change that will make it less of a shithole.
amadeuspagel 4y ago
I'm sure this kind of thing feels emotionally satisfying to say, but if you think about it for a moment, it doesn't make any sense. It's like saying that RSS is a shit hole, that no one will want to use a feed reader "amongst the nuts and Q's".
- MrDresden 4y ago
  One is an open protocol, the other a closed ecosystem. So that example doesn't really hold up.
  - amadeuspagel 4y ago
    This comment honestly reads like you reached for the first difference between twitter and RSS you could think of. "No comparison to be made." Really? A lot of people use twitter and RSS for the same purpose, but there's "no comparison to be made"?
    - propertymagnate 4y ago
      The value of your RSS feed comes from the websites you have the feeds from. The value of twitter comes from the tweets on twitter. The more terrible tweets and tweeters, either terrible in their quality or terrible in their offensiveness to the reader, the lower the value. The more terrible tweeters, the more they will inject themselves in to the dialogues that were previously considered non terrible by the reader. At a low enough value, when people are wading through the racist crackpot right wing sludge, they will stop using it.
      - exodust 4y ago
        You're forgetting the value of following people you like on Twitter. As such, you are browsing your own curated feed, without the need to see much sludge. BTW sludge and toxicity can be found in quantities across the political spectrum, in case you're implying otherwise.
        dmix 4y ago
        People want to control what other people are being exposed to. They don't care that it's entirely opt-in who you follow. They say the only want to ban Q, Alex Jones, and conspiracy types but then you look at sites like Reddit who have adopted this moderation heavy approach and it's slowly becoming one giant mono-culture where the set of bannable wrongthink only ever grows larger. It's highly selectively enforced and usually does little to stop people from actually having opinions they don't like. It's based on an ideology that treats people like sheep who can be fooled by selectively showing them information and guide them towards holding the same opinions as they do. And they want unaccountable tech companies to be the ones with this power.
        inawarminister 4y ago
        >It's based on an ideology that treats people like sheep who can be fooled by selectively showing them information and guide them towards holding the same opinions as they do. Well, marketing empirically proves this to be true...
- mort96 4y ago
  But with RSS, I only see stuff from the people I subscribe to. There can be a billion of nut jobs and one reasonable person in the whole world of RSS, but if I only subscribe to the reasonable person's feed, all the other stuff doesn't affect me at all. With Twitter, I see random stuff suggested by the algorithm and I see comments in tweets from the people I follow. I also see quote tweets and replies made by the people I follow.
memish 4y ago
Millions of nutters are already loose on there. This is about not wanting the "other nutters" on there along with "our nutters". Which will make things worse in some ways, so keeping it confined to one set of nutters is not without its merit.
- bergenty 4y ago
  The difference is violence advocating nutters. It’s a whole nother ball game.
  - CapricornNoble 4y ago
    Twitter is already home to violence-advocating nutters. If you don't realize this, you are deep in a (dis)information bubble.
aaaaaaaaaaab 4y ago
Original nutters? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzbdBk6XQ6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzbdBk6XQ6Y

nullc 4y ago

> other than a direct personal threat to someon twitter limiting direct personal threats would be a welcome change.

ajvs 4y ago

It's already a woke echo chamber. Anything he can do to change that will make it less of a shithole.

amadeuspagel 4y ago

I'm sure this kind of thing feels emotionally satisfying to say, but if you think about it for a moment, it doesn't make any sense. It's like saying that RSS is a shit hole, that no one will want to use a feed reader "amongst the nuts and Q's".

MrDresden 4y ago
One is an open protocol, the other a closed ecosystem. So that example doesn't really hold up.
- amadeuspagel 4y ago
  This comment honestly reads like you reached for the first difference between twitter and RSS you could think of. "No comparison to be made." Really? A lot of people use twitter and RSS for the same purpose, but there's "no comparison to be made"?
  - propertymagnate 4y ago
    The value of your RSS feed comes from the websites you have the feeds from. The value of twitter comes from the tweets on twitter. The more terrible tweets and tweeters, either terrible in their quality or terrible in their offensiveness to the reader, the lower the value. The more terrible tweeters, the more they will inject themselves in to the dialogues that were previously considered non terrible by the reader. At a low enough value, when people are wading through the racist crackpot right wing sludge, they will stop using it.
    - exodust 4y ago
      You're forgetting the value of following people you like on Twitter. As such, you are browsing your own curated feed, without the need to see much sludge. BTW sludge and toxicity can be found in quantities across the political spectrum, in case you're implying otherwise.
      - dmix 4y ago
        People want to control what other people are being exposed to. They don't care that it's entirely opt-in who you follow. They say the only want to ban Q, Alex Jones, and conspiracy types but then you look at sites like Reddit who have adopted this moderation heavy approach and it's slowly becoming one giant mono-culture where the set of bannable wrongthink only ever grows larger. It's highly selectively enforced and usually does little to stop people from actually having opinions they don't like. It's based on an ideology that treats people like sheep who can be fooled by selectively showing them information and guide them towards holding the same opinions as they do. And they want unaccountable tech companies to be the ones with this power.
        inawarminister 4y ago
        >It's based on an ideology that treats people like sheep who can be fooled by selectively showing them information and guide them towards holding the same opinions as they do. Well, marketing empirically proves this to be true...
mort96 4y ago
But with RSS, I only see stuff from the people I subscribe to. There can be a billion of nut jobs and one reasonable person in the whole world of RSS, but if I only subscribe to the reasonable person's feed, all the other stuff doesn't affect me at all. With Twitter, I see random stuff suggested by the algorithm and I see comments in tweets from the people I follow. I also see quote tweets and replies made by the people I follow.

memish 4y ago

Millions of nutters are already loose on there. This is about not wanting the "other nutters" on there along with "our nutters". Which will make things worse in some ways, so keeping it confined to one set of nutters is not without its merit.

bergenty 4y ago
The difference is violence advocating nutters. It’s a whole nother ball game.
- CapricornNoble 4y ago
  Twitter is already home to violence-advocating nutters. If you don't realize this, you are deep in a (dis)information bubble.

aaaaaaaaaaab 4y ago

Original nutters? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzbdBk6XQ6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzbdBk6XQ6Y