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Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders

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Re: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders

#21

Remove the ability to have followers from world leaders, remove the ability to be liked from world leaders' tweets. Keep the ability to retweet world leaders' tweets, but prevent retweets to be added more from the retweeters.

What would it mean to not allow followers on Twitter?

Maybe they mean you can follow but the followers count is not visible to the public or the account holder.

Re: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders

#22

Marketing tip: Always ask the public for input and consult with "experts" before doing what you intended to all along.

Agreed. This is so if they’re questioned by Congress at some point they can say “we regret our transgressions, and have reformed by asking the community what we should do better”

Almost like act first, ask permission later.

Re: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders

#24
World leaders can tweet, they shouldn't be able to untweet. It's public record. They shouldn't be able to block users - If the feedback is so bad, then twitter should be banning those users under regular T&C's The T&C's that apply to me should apply to them. If they cross they line they should be handled like I would etc.

Pretty simple IMO.

Re: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders

#25
post #18

While on first sight, I find it applaudable that Twitter cares and wants to learn, I think it's not in their responsibility anymore to moderate. They've proven to be incapable and overwhelmed about making legitimate decisions. They should get regulated and they should stop regulating.

Optimistically I’d agree, but given corporate politics my gut instinct leads to deep pessimism.

I think this is just a PR stunt, nothing will change that isn’t already planned before this public input session. Move along, status quo.

Re: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders

#26
World leaders should not "be subject to the same rules as others on Twitter", they should be held to a higher standard; if some random loser writes a Tweet justifying genocide, reasonable people can disagree on whether that loser should be banned. But when it's people who are backed by a military which can actually carry out a genocide (and, e.g. in the case of Netanyahu and his ministers, the Assad regime, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Burmese military junta, has already been carrying one out for years), they must be banned, full stop.

Re: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders

#27

I would suggest that besides concentrating on the world leader issue that Twitter consider some sort of expiration, short at that, for all tweets so as to put down this revenge/vengeance oriented the woke have created. people complain about fake news and rightly so but the cycle of hatred that results from these purity tests applied to anyone because of past tweets is worse

Ideally that would be quite a feature, but in practice nothing on the internet is assuredly temporary.

Logistically it’s infeasible. Someone will create a database of archived tweets, or screenshots will circle the web. Etc.

Re: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders

#28

Remove the ability to have followers from world leaders, remove the ability to be liked from world leaders' tweets. Keep the ability to retweet world leaders' tweets, but prevent retweets to be added more from the retweeters.

Are we asking Twitter to stop being Twitter?

Re: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders

#29
I think the nuance is interpreting "the rules" instead of just:

> "whether or not they believe world leaders should be subject to the same rules as others on Twitter".

E.g. Twitter in 2020 was rife with "inciting violence" but largely depending on your point of view/politics, and if it was "justified". Etc.

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