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Elon went from free speech absolutist to "Twitter aims to serve center 80% of people, who wish to learn, laugh & engage in reasoned debate." Quite the u-turn. I
by buzzdenver 4y ago
Elon went from free speech absolutist to "Twitter aims to serve center 80% of people, who wish to learn, laugh & engage in reasoned debate." Quite the u-turn. I'm sure he put zero thought into that 80% figure, but even banning 2% instead of 20% is a shockingly huge number.
- new2this 4y agoI remember some stat that the loudest voices are the 8% on either end of the political spectrum. I couldn't find where I heard that, but Pew has some data that mirrors that. I think that 20% is coming from this: "The overall share of Americans who express consistently conservative or consistently liberal opinions has doubled over the past two decades from 10% to 21%"[1] [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/06/12/political-po...
- _greim_ 4y agoIt's unclear what "serving the center 80% means" but I doubt it means banning the remaining 20%.
- memish 4y agoPaul Graham says it's more like 90 or 95%. "You could probably expand that 80% to 90% or even 95%. The extremists seem like they're more numerous than they are, because they talk so much and so loudly, but they're really a tiny minority." https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1598720168737345539 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1598720168737345539