Given today’s culture I would think Twitter is doing you a favor. It’s better that you silently delete the post than have it be dug up by angry X and get you fired and ostracized.
Sure wish I could delete the stuff I said on Usenet back in the day.
Twitter locked my account for a nine year old tweet
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#102Unaccountable censorship of expression by our main communication providers is incompatible with Democracy. Communication is often a natural monopoly, and you can't just "start a competitor" to Twitter and have the market fix the problem (see gab.ai). If we're going to have censorship on the big platforms (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.) and backbone providers (ISPs, Cloudfront), us normal human beings need…
It's like how the New York Times has always published everything anyone sent them.
Oh wait.
(They aren't quite directly comparable, but they are for the point you are making, where one side of the equation is popular attention...)
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think what's keeping "ordinary men and women" from becoming politicians is the toxicity public figures are exposed to, considering a lot of "ordinary men and women" (but particularly women, gender-non-conforming men and PoC, especially if they're trans) get the same or worse on a daily basis on social media. If you look at the careers and upbringing of most high-ranking politicians, I doubt the most obvious d…
It’s wealth and maybe being from a race and sex that generally isn’t raked over the coals for simply being black or a women? White male politicians don’t get much flak for being white or male. Black women politician would get so much for both her race and gender. As a women I’d never want to be in the public eye for this reason.
>White male politicians don’t get much flak for being white or male.
Obviously you've never had an account on Twitter
Re: Twitter locked my account for a nine year old tweet
#104Their notification was fine. The tweet was vile and full of expletives. You'll have trouble finding any business or institution that tolerates speech like that. This isn't the censorship hill anyone should want to die on.
Re: Twitter locked my account for a nine year old tweet
#105Unaccountable censorship of expression by our main communication providers is incompatible with Democracy. Communication is often a natural monopoly, and you can't just "start a competitor" to Twitter and have the market fix the problem (see gab.ai). If we're going to have censorship on the big platforms (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.) and backbone providers (ISPs, Cloudfront), us normal human beings need…
If we look at some differences between Twitter (or insert your favorite social media platform here) and email: * Email providers have zero responsibility for filtering information * Email users form their own networks dynamically through actual relationships rather than some artificial structure of "followers"/"friends" * Email users never get banned from sending email (although maybe in some cases an individual serv…
The answer is much simpler than you are making this appear.
Sending an email is a private communication. Sending a tweet is a public communication.
Your email provider is not a publishing platform any more than the paper store or the USPS is a publishing platform.
Twitter is a publisher, although as an Internet publisher disseminating user generated content, they are protected by law from the typical liability that publishers sometimes face for the communications that they publish.
To say twitter is not for fit for its purpose is bizarre. Twitter is one of the most powerful publishing tools ever created.
Re: Twitter locked my account for a nine year old tweet
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is definitely an immature tweet, however I think 9 years can change a person a lot. Maybe twitter could have given him a warning about his tweet and ask if he would like to delete it before the instaban algorithm hit
They blocked the account but as you can see from the bottom of the screenshot in the article the account could be reinstated by deleting the tweet in question. If the author is honestly saying they no longer stand by what they posted 9 years ago they could easily just delete it and move on. That raises a bunch of different questions about what Twitter are doing to change history, and the way they represent their plat…
Exactly. This is all beyond ridiculous. The harm to the author is minimal. Just remove the tweet, tweet out a link to this very blog post, and be done with it. Twitter has no interest in thought control, nor capability to do it. They just don't like hosting garbage like the Palin tweet that will come back to embarrass them.
There is a very reasonable middle ground here. No one is demanding we all submit to corporate thought police. No one is being shunned from social media access without recourse. Just make a minimal effort to conform to routine societal decorum, and you can shit on Sarah Palin all you want.
Re: Twitter locked my account for a nine year old tweet
#107Unaccountable censorship of expression by our main communication providers is incompatible with Democracy. Communication is often a natural monopoly, and you can't just "start a competitor" to Twitter and have the market fix the problem (see gab.ai). If we're going to have censorship on the big platforms (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.) and backbone providers (ISPs, Cloudfront), us normal human beings need…
Linking to the people behind the design is a recipe for violence.
I already know people in security who get death threats. I can't even imagine what it'd be like for people in moderation.
Re: Twitter locked my account for a nine year old tweet
#108Unaccountable censorship of expression by our main communication providers is incompatible with Democracy. Communication is often a natural monopoly, and you can't just "start a competitor" to Twitter and have the market fix the problem (see gab.ai). If we're going to have censorship on the big platforms (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.) and backbone providers (ISPs, Cloudfront), us normal human beings need…
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which in part stems back to anonymity. Information becomes easier to filter and fact check when the purveyors and the sources are not anonymous. People also tend to act more civil when not anonymous. But, a lack of anonymity brings a whole host of other problems.
Anonymity is the keystone of free speech. There is no freedom of speech without the freedom to speak anonymously.
And if I run a 10,000 bot network - should my speech be free?
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#110This is what happens when we allow computers to decide what is fair, decent, and open to discussion, I think it is called ML Fairness, or something like that.