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"its data" - nothing on Twitter, except the pathetic memes from a billionaire wannabe edgelord should "belong" to Twitter. It's all user-generated content. I k

"its data" - nothing on Twitter, except the pathetic memes from a billionaire wannabe edgelord should "belong" to Twitter. It's all user-generated content. I know it'll never happen because we live in the reality where everything must be awful all the time, but I'll continue dreaming of a day where large internet platforms are regarded and regulated as public utilities.

safety1st 3y ago
I've come to feel that regulating a platform like Twitter as a public utility could be a well intentioned but unfathomably evil act. Tweeting is the ultimate example of an activity that's designed to be engaging but is otherwise awful. I think it may be the very nature of popularity-driven ultra-short-form content that it encourages online mobs, cancel culture, dunks and hot takes. If there's even a chance this is true then it would be criminal to calcify this medium in its currently known form as a permanent pillar of our public square - which regulating it as a public utility would do. We could be inflicting suffering on future generations that might have escaped it. No. It's better to hope that we discover better ways of communicating, and tweeting becomes irrelevant and dies.
- mschuster91 3y ago
  > I think it may be the very nature of popularity-driven ultra-short-form content that it encourages online mobs, cancel culture, dunks and hot takes. What "cancel culture"? Who got "cancelled" for real? Literally everyone of those whining about "cancel culture" who hasn't actually broken laws or is being suspected having done so (Tate) is still running around and making tons of money whining around to everyone.
  - LightHugger 3y ago
    Funnily enough people on the right are largely immune to cancel culture because they have their own support structures. Meanwhile innocent people on the left get their lives ruined by cancel culture twitter zombies that think harassing and stalking people makes them righteous. And just the usual, people who want to be assholes and just pick the 'socially acceptable' way to hurt other people. "The Left" is extremely cannibalistic among those who subscribe to a central "Left" dogma.

safety1st 3y ago

I've come to feel that regulating a platform like Twitter as a public utility could be a well intentioned but unfathomably evil act. Tweeting is the ultimate example of an activity that's designed to be engaging but is otherwise awful. I think it may be the very nature of popularity-driven ultra-short-form content that it encourages online mobs, cancel culture, dunks and hot takes. If there's even a chance this is true then it would be criminal to calcify this medium in its currently known form as a permanent pillar of our public square - which regulating it as a public utility would do. We could be inflicting suffering on future generations that might have escaped it. No. It's better to hope that we discover better ways of communicating, and tweeting becomes irrelevant and dies.

mschuster91 3y ago
> I think it may be the very nature of popularity-driven ultra-short-form content that it encourages online mobs, cancel culture, dunks and hot takes. What "cancel culture"? Who got "cancelled" for real? Literally everyone of those whining about "cancel culture" who hasn't actually broken laws or is being suspected having done so (Tate) is still running around and making tons of money whining around to everyone.
- LightHugger 3y ago
  Funnily enough people on the right are largely immune to cancel culture because they have their own support structures. Meanwhile innocent people on the left get their lives ruined by cancel culture twitter zombies that think harassing and stalking people makes them righteous. And just the usual, people who want to be assholes and just pick the 'socially acceptable' way to hurt other people. "The Left" is extremely cannibalistic among those who subscribe to a central "Left" dogma.