People with different views need to be listened to and debated with rather than silenced.
this newspaper article from a BBC journalist is quite thought provoking
http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/journalists-are-helping-to...
Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads
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Re: Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads
#72Although Twitter obviously has the right to do this, legally, I don't think it is good. Twitter is esentially a public infrastructure for real-time communication. We have public officials from countries all over the world that use Twitter to communicate to their citizens. For that (and similar) reasons, I would strongly prefer if Twitter didn't go around policing what types of political opions are okay and aren't. Ev…
They're not getting banned for opinions, they're getting banned for their actions on Twitter.
Re: Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads
#73I can only see this as furthering the echo chamber that caused many to be so blindsided by Trumps victory. I would like to see specifically why these people were suspended. If they're engaged in harassment obviously the suspension should hold up. If it really is just mass reporting for political speech (I've had friends msging 'targets' for reporting purely for them admitting to voting for Trump), I can only see it a…
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Re: Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads
#74People love having their speech limited, I'm sure this will work out great for twitter.
This isn't the limitation of free speech, this is a private company telling one of its users that they aren't welcome due to their behavior. It's like if you were at a store and started soapboxing about loudly right in front of the register, the manager of the store is 100% allowed to ask you to leave. Freedom of speech means your speech isn't illegal , not that you will suffer no consequences for it. ETA: some peopl…
Twitter is very much a public company beholden to its shareholders.
Re: Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads
#75People love having their speech limited, I'm sure this will work out great for twitter.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences, and Twitter is free to do as they like with their platform.
Honestly, if there wasn't censorship of alt-right views to begin with on Facebook and elsewhere, then perhaps more people would have been motivated to get out and vote for what they believe in, rather than thinking that they had already won.
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#76"Twitter finally bans accounts partaking in persistent abuse and harassment"
This isnt a freedom of speech / diversity of thought issue, these people are abusing others. Frankly I would prefer the police got involved and hate crimes and threats were taken seriously, but while late at least twitter are doing the right thing.
Re: Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads
#77Why does the alt-right have issues with them being banned from systems, but don't see issues with themselves banning others from systems. For example, Twitter bans them from using Twitter, but the /r/The_Donald echo chamber bans anyone with a counter view to their own. If you want freedom to speak on certain platforms, you need to provide the same rights to everyone.
Do you really expect logic from people who consider the right to have the following views equal?
"I believe people's sexual preferences are private and the state should not interfere in it."
"I believe homosexuality is a crime and all gay men should be killed".
Re: Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads
#78I can only see this as furthering the echo chamber that caused many to be so blindsided by Trumps victory. I would like to see specifically why these people were suspended. If they're engaged in harassment obviously the suspension should hold up. If it really is just mass reporting for political speech (I've had friends msging 'targets' for reporting purely for them admitting to voting for Trump), I can only see it a…
I was with you when you started to describe a soundproof echo chanber filled with progressives, which blinded them to public opinion. However you sort of pivoted at the end to an alt-right echo chamber. Perhaps it's a bicameral echo chamber. (insert Westworld comparisons here)
Re: Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads
#79I can only see this as furthering the echo chamber that caused many to be so blindsided by Trumps victory. I would like to see specifically why these people were suspended. If they're engaged in harassment obviously the suspension should hold up. If it really is just mass reporting for political speech (I've had friends msging 'targets' for reporting purely for them admitting to voting for Trump), I can only see it a…
Agree, very disturbing trend and it only increases the animosity between groups.
The trending method of improving diversity and inclusivity is through exclusivity. This will not work.
People and groups who don't talk to each other grow further apart and trust each other less.
Re: Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads
#80Painting insults and threats and bullying as legitimate criticism is the main rhetorical fallacy of the alt-right movement. They have a guarantee of free speech in this country but they do not have a guarantee of Twitter access.
Twitter allows threats and bullying when it comes from the left. They refused to ban the freaking jihadists. They have SJWs posting #killallmen, #KillAllWhiteMen #maletears in droves. Nothing ever happens to them.
This move is simply political censorship.