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> It also means that Twitter is not in the business of making judgements on what is socially acceptable to say On the surface this makes sense, except it's ign
by wizofaus 3y ago
> It also means that Twitter is not in the business of making judgements on what is socially acceptable to say
On the surface this makes sense, except it's ignoring the reality that online-based communications sidesteps all our built-in controls that exist around behaving/communicating in a "socially acceptable" manner. Nobody needs to police what we say to each other face-to-face because there will be repercussions if you make a habit of saying regularly hateful things (esp. in a manner that's broadcast/audible by a large audience), but the same isn't true by default on a platform like Twitter.
- Dig1t 3y agoI think cancel culture is exactly the example of what you're talking about though. There ARE consequences for people who say socially unacceptable things on social media, so much so that it has its own phrase in our lexicon now. How many times has some famous, or non-famous for that matter, person faced backlash because of something they said on social media? It's such a thing that there's an entire episode of Family Guy about it, where Brian gets cancelled and people stand outside his house telling him to kill himself for making a bad joke on Twitter.
- wizofaus 3y agoWhat percentage of content online is posted by famous people though? At any rate you'd hardly agree that such a reaction is a healthy way to enforce social norms.