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Sunlight is the best disinfectant, lad.
definitely a statement that is false
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At least in the US, there's a lot of noxious speech that's legal. The US has very permissive free speech laws overall.
And conversely the US is one of the most restrictive nations on earth when it comes to speech that supposedly infringes Copyrights or can be interpreted as defamation/slander. The premise that US has anything resembling freedom of speech is completely untrue.
Libel/slander are famously hard to prove in the US. Sure you're not thinking of the UK?
Are peer nations substantially more liberal on copyright infringement than the US? I haven't really heard of that. Really, it seemed like other countries like Japan and Germany were stricter.
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#153"In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules."
Let’s see how popular that policy is once they make the site completely unavailable in Europe.
It’s not like twitter is rocket science. And Europe is alright at rocket science anyway.
It twitter abandons the European market, people will use something else.
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Please follow the HN guidelines: > Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
Neonazis on social media is an ACTUAL PROBLEM that is relevant in a lot of contexts today, for example one of Putin's absurd false justifications for his invasion is to 'clean nazis out'. Don't just see the word 'nazi' and flip out. Nazis are back and making real strides in many countries and spaces.
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#155With facebook dying, twitter getting bought out, reddit's eutrophication, and tiktok on the rise, it seems like things have unsettled quite a bit
The next couple years are going to be very interesting. Facebook will probably get bought out or something. For twitter, I can't really say. Reddit is probably going to become even more repulsive (and hopefully gets replaced). Hopefully tiktok goes away also :/
Also interesting to see the phrase "diversity of viewpoint" catching on so quickly
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Many of the “unbanned” accounts weren’t banned before and that didn’t change. They were in Twitter jail (or whatever the term is). The account is there but they couldn’t publish new tweets. That’s the change to watch for. He could unban Trump, say he kept his promise, but keep the account locked so that Trump couldn’t actually tweet. As a hypothetical example.
It's called a temporary suspension. Twitter asks you to acknowledge your tweet was bad by deleting it yourself. If you do, you get a time-out in the naughty corner for 12 hours, or a week, or whatever, and then you can tweet again. If you don't, you stay in the naughty corner. Whoever designed this process could stand to learn how to treat people like adults, in my opinion.
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant, lad.
That's the case if they aren't a group. Propaganda bots, state sponosored propoganda (look at the Chinese officals on covid.. you'll need to see the archives for that.. they'll directly claim that covid is the fault of the US Navy), professional troll army, state sponsored stalking groups, and extremist groups have been running rampant and in the open on twitter. (They have also been on Hacker News, Reddit, and Facebook)
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In the real world, sure. The Internet would have us believe that civil war is imminent. We need to stop letting the 1% of people who bother to post online drive our national dialog. We have put the crazies in charge of the asylum.
> The Internet would have us believe that civil war is imminent. The person who could arguably be considered the third most powerful politician in the US just had their own broken into and their spouse assaulted in a suspected act of domestic terrorism. I wouldn't say "imminent" but if you don't think the possibility is at least somewhere on the table I would consider that being naive.
I just read about this, its crazy. "diverse" viewpoints indeed
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#159Well you have to keep people in the uniparty otherwise they vote for extreme candidates. The problem if living conditions don't improve, things get extreme regardless.
typed while reclining on the best living conditions in the history of the planet
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#160If you are exposed to things on Twitter that are tweeted by people not personally known to you, IMHO you are using Twitter incorrectly. I have no idea why anyone gives a damn what the content moderation policies might be. Speaking for my own account I have never once seen anything said by Trump, Kanye, the pillow guy, any neo nazis, any anti-vaxxers, or anything like that. In what way are people using Twitter that ma…
Anyone in the world can reply to your tweets. You see replies. Harassment is a huge problem on Twitter.