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>people will know about it (a lot of retweets) Yeah, unless those get suppressed too which is what currently happens on social media sites like Facebook, Reddi
by trompetenaccoun 4y ago
>people will know about it (a lot of retweets)
Yeah, unless those get suppressed too which is what currently happens on social media sites like Facebook, Reddit and (pre-Musk) Twitter.
There is no way authorities can gently steer public debates in the "right" direction. Any meddling is overstepping a line and problematic.
- phphphphp 4y agoAre you able to provide a citation for Twitter suppressing retweets?
- trompetenaccoun 4y agoIt's been referred to by them as "de-emphasizing" of content. It's fancy newspeak for this type of suppression of speech: https://www.vice.com/en/article/a35nbj/twitter-content-moderation https://www.vice.com/en/article/a35nbj/twitter-content-moder...
- not2b 4y agoAny meddling? Like when people of one ethnic group use social media to organize a massacre of another group (as has happened in a number of countries)? Social media have correctly tried to suppress that, and I worry about what happens when people who speak the language get fired because they aren't coders.
- not2b 4y agoWow. I suppose the downvoters have never heard of what happened to the Rohingya people in Myanmar.
- trompetenaccoun 4y agoYour own example is the best argument against such censorship. Myanmar is a heavily censored military dictatorship, the violence is against the Rohingya is state sanctioned. Journalists have been arrested for as much as reporting on it: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-journalists/reuters-reporters-arrested-under-myanmar-secrets-act-denied-bail-idUSKBN1FK3C2 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-journalists/reute...