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The new owners have quite loudly and explicitly promised that there will be less content moderation than their was before. And specifically less moderation of

The new owners have quite loudly and explicitly promised that there will be less content moderation than their was before. And specifically less moderation of conservatives. If Twitter, under the previous leadership was full of death threats to leftists, and the new leadership is promising less moderation actions taken against the sort of people who make those threats, it seems reasonable to assume that those threats will continue or get worse

flanked-evergl 4y ago
> The new owners have quite loudly and explicitly promised that there will be less content moderation than their was before. Less moderation to the point of not taking actions against content which is criminal, i.e. threatening violence? > new leadership is promising less moderation actions taken against the sort of people who make those threats I think there is some leap in logic here, which is that conservatives are more likely to be criminals, but if that holds then banning them from the platform for non criminal offences will reduce the amount of criminals on the platform, however you will also be banning people who are not criminals in the process, and this does not really seem like a terribly morally sound thing to be doing. How many steps from banning people from twitter for conservative views to reduce crime to jailing people who frequent bars because they are more likely to be criminals? If your only value is to reduce crime, then I'm not sure I see where the breaks are.
- UncleMeat 4y ago
  > Less moderation to the point of not taking actions against content which is criminal, i.e. threatening violence? Yes, obviously. Because Musk sure isn't pushing for more of this oversight.
- pjc50 4y ago
  > conservatives are more likely to be criminals The correlation runs the other way. Mass shooters and people who carry out acts of political violence in the US are overwhelmingly driven by conspiracy "logic" that has recently been embraced by the right; Qanon, pizza parlor conspiracies, racism, etc.
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flanked-evergl 4y ago

> The new owners have quite loudly and explicitly promised that there will be less content moderation than their was before. Less moderation to the point of not taking actions against content which is criminal, i.e. threatening violence? > new leadership is promising less moderation actions taken against the sort of people who make those threats I think there is some leap in logic here, which is that conservatives are more likely to be criminals, but if that holds then banning them from the platform for non criminal offences will reduce the amount of criminals on the platform, however you will also be banning people who are not criminals in the process, and this does not really seem like a terribly morally sound thing to be doing. How many steps from banning people from twitter for conservative views to reduce crime to jailing people who frequent bars because they are more likely to be criminals? If your only value is to reduce crime, then I'm not sure I see where the breaks are.

UncleMeat 4y ago
> Less moderation to the point of not taking actions against content which is criminal, i.e. threatening violence? Yes, obviously. Because Musk sure isn't pushing for more of this oversight.
pjc50 4y ago
> conservatives are more likely to be criminals The correlation runs the other way. Mass shooters and people who carry out acts of political violence in the US are overwhelmingly driven by conspiracy "logic" that has recently been embraced by the right; Qanon, pizza parlor conspiracies, racism, etc.
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