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I’ve wondered if censoring the Nazis and antivaxx cranks might have been helping them. Twitter today is a showcase for how dumb they are, with all their posts f
by api 3y ago
I’ve wondered if censoring the Nazis and antivaxx cranks might have been helping them. Twitter today is a showcase for how dumb they are, with all their posts followed by pages of people laughing or debunking or gawking at them.
My personal favorite are the Roman statue avatar trad accounts posting photos of classical art and architecture with “why is this not done anymore?” followed by either debunking of the photo or 50 examples of similar work from today.
Fox never would have let Tucker interview Andrew Tate, but Twitter is happy to provide a place for him to do that to himself.
Give them more rope?
- slowhadoken 3y agoIsn't the Taliban on Twitter? It's an odd place. Then again I don't like the idea of censorship but I am an American. I prefer idiots to speak and be debunked. Silent errors are the real headache.
- miguelazo 3y agoThe functionality issues have had 95% of the impact-- almost no one actually cares about the changes in "content moderation."
- slowhadoken 3y agoFunctionality seems fine to me. It appears that they're making improvements and that's causing slight disruption that lasts for at most a day. And I care about content moderation, I don't know why you're using quotation marks. It was huge a issue when Jack Dorsey ran things. He and Vijaya Gadde got grilled on Joe Rogan's podcast and then in front of a US Senate hearing about it. It's all anyone is talking about lmfao
- miguelazo 3y agoI meant that functionality issues, which have been quite real (especially rate limiting and API access) have had more impact in terms of driving away users than an increase in content they perceive as offensive.
- slowhadoken 3y agoThey haven't effected me at all yet.
- miguelazo 3y agoTwitter had lots of casual users who wanted to view tweets without logging in or having an account. They were locked out, even if it was only briefly, driving them towards alternatives. Twitter had lots of power users who consumed its content on third party apps because they (understandably) hated the default interface. They're mostly gone.
- slowhadoken 3y agoCould be a good thing. Twitter was suppose to be riddled with bots and obsessive compulsive types. Keffals was revealed to be a meth addict and he was hyper active. Direct attacks, free riding and stalking are other huge issues for social media to tackle.