I have used it for more than a year, that's serious enough in my book to come to a reasonable verdict. I'm not going to engage more than I want with a website j

I have used it for more than a year, that's serious enough in my book to come to a reasonable verdict. I'm not going to engage more than I want with a website just to find its flaws when I think it already has plenty of them anyway. My initial statement wasn't intended as some sort of strong moral claim, it's just my personal opinion that Twitter / X brings a huge negative net effect on society. You disagree, fair enough, but all you have presented so far in this lengthy discussion was your personal experience to the contrary of mine. That's not a very convincing or strong argument that would make me reconsider my assessment. Two more points: First, you seem to make similar generalizations as you accuse me of making, based on your personal experiences with the platform. I see no problem with this, after all we can only judge these kind of platforms by testing and using them. It's futile to get into discussions about "how much bad content" there is, these are empirical issues and we seem to disagree about them. Elon Musk has been accused of blocking access of third-party researchers, if that's true than I'd say that's a bad sign. Second, that it's not the existence that matters is Twitter / X's rationale. This might be a reasonable take on moderation issues but it is absolutely not adequate for the legally relevant cases. Whether it's illegal hate speech, child pornography, copyright infringement, or other illegal content, the "it's hard to find and we're demoting this kind of content" defense does not hold and will lead to fines. The content needs to be removed from the servers, and it's also not a bad idea to permban users posting it repeatedly (rather than, as indeed just happened, allowing someone like that who was banned in the past back to Twitter and even paying him money). Anyway, nice discussion. Have a good weekend!