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My dude, Richard Spencer is still on Twitter and can post! Also, there's been a ton of Truly Harmful stuff the Blue Check brigade has posted over the years tha

My dude, Richard Spencer is still on Twitter and can post! Also, there's been a ton of Truly Harmful stuff the Blue Check brigade has posted over the years that I certainly wouldn't want to be responsible for hosting. I'd also be careful about banning whole countries at once, Iranians/Russians != the Iranian/Russian state, though apologia/misinformation around atrocities should still eat the banhammer. Personally, I've seen a lot better communities around smaller places like Discords/forums, so to make money I'd encourage people to group their follows into circles, like "Gamedev" or "Central/Eastern Europe foreign policy" or whatever else you're interested in, so you can be better insulated from the ragebait of the day unless you go looking for it.

logicalmonster 4y ago
> misinformation around atrocities should still eat the banhammer Maybe this is a good idea, assuming that there's ever some way to get objective information about the world, but this always feels like a hypocritical statement. When governments and mainstream corporations provide misinformation around atrocities that functions as war propaganda and leads to the deaths of hundreds of thousands or millions, nobody blinks an eye. When certain social media favored media entities outright deny massive atrocities, nobody bats an eye. It's only the politically unwanted and isolated groups that are ever rejected from social media over this.