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Post by sg47 »

pbreit wrote: post #314
partiallypro wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Babylon Bee being suspended was one of the dumber things the previous Twitter rules had done. It's a satire site, it's right leaning, nothing in the piece they said was hateful or even an unpopular view. Kanye's ban, he's just a mentally ill person. I don't think he meant "death con" he just didn't know that it's actually "def con." His remarks are still reprehensible. Twitter's whole moderation problem has been it i…

"I hope Trump is never allowed back," Why?

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Post by sixstringtheory »

fernandotakai wrote: post #338
intrasight wrote: post #289

Twitter is not a megaphone. So tired of news sites using that analogy. I can choose what I see on Twitter.

that's one of the things i never understood. twitter gives you SO MANY TOOLS to avoid seeing what you don't want to see. you can lock your account, lock replies, block accounts, mute accounts, filter keywords and that's not without mentioning the granularity of notifications. i, myself, almost never see what i consider hateful content.

Maybe I’m just not willing to put in as much effort as you, but despite everything I tried I could not stop unwanted content from meeting my eyes. Except for the step of not using it any longer, of course.

Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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Post by mikkergp »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #268
fasthands9 wrote: post #134

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I think one reasonable policy could be "form a council of diverse viewpoints and only ban someone if they all (or mostly all) agree the person should be kicked off" and another reasonable policy could be "form a council fo diverse viewpoints and ban someone if one (or a couple) think the person should be kicked off. I think its fair to say the committee will end up being a scapegoat - but to be charitable to the idea…

Twitter has become the de facto standard, so IMHO moderation should only ask one question: "is this tweet legal?" If the answer is 'yes' then it should be allowed. Of course, a corollary is that they should be able to filter content on a per country basis because, obviously, what's legal differs from country to country, but I think there is no escaping that for any platforms which claim to be global.

What about “this pattern of tweets is sufficiently correlated with declining user engagement”. Should Twitter make decisions based on the health of the business?

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Post by concinds »

throw_m239339 wrote: post #66
deanCommie wrote: post #18

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> The word "Diverse" has been successfully appropriated and destroyed by the right. If anything, it has been successfully appropriated and destroyed by intersectionalists on the left, where diverse means anything but diversity of opinions and where people's diversity is just evaluated by racial, religious, sexual and sexual orientation characteristics. The fact that the "head of diversity" of Apple, a black woman was…

The term was popularized by leftists, but coopted by corporations and oligarch-media who have emptied the word of its meaning, turning it into a buzzword that is said in every press release and at every opportunity.

The news of Ms Smith being fired pained me when it came out; the people behind that "outcry" should be ashamed. The mob won again.

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Post by virgildotcodes »

hitpointdrew wrote: post #318
philosopher1234 wrote: post #296

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Interesting. I imagine that means you're a real champion of improving opportunities for minorities, and spend a substantial amount of your time taking action to try and solve that problem, since adversity is adversity.

I'll happily oppose any racist law or coporate policy. Do you care to point me to any? And not just some "systemic racist" boogie man in the sky?

To echo the person you're responding to, what have you actually done to date to "improv[e] opportunities for minorities, and spend a substantial amount of your time taking action to try and solve that problem"?

Saying you will take hypothetical action is easy, but all that matters is what you've actually done and are doing.

If you haven't taken any substantial action to date then perhaps consider that may be a sign that you are not as motivated and understanding about the oppression of others as your initial comment may have indicated.

If on the other hand you have been involved in a significant amount of anti-racist activism that's genuinely awesome.

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Post by icare_1er »

rat87 wrote: post #293

Might theoretically work as long as you have no Trumpers/MAGA types on the council. If you put them on the council they'll try to ban their political opponents and allow every kooky antivax and racist far right tweet.

Might probably happen.

But what DID happen though, is the opposite team doing the same and banning anything or anyone right-wing.

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Post by throw_m239339 »

rossjudson wrote: post #224

Advertisers are going to be pretty concerned when their paid content is showing up in screenshots mixed in with "questionable" content. Advertising and freedom-for-jackasses doesn't mix well.

> Advertisers are going to be pretty concerned when their paid content is showing up in screenshots mixed in with "questionable" content.

Are you aware Twitter already allows all sort of depraved porn on their platform already? Did Advertisers leave the platform as a result of this already?

Maybe Twitter should get rid of the hardcore pornography first.

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Post by luxuryballs »

partiallypro wrote: post #280
jszymborski wrote: post #25

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A bunch of accounts like The Babylon Bee and Ye have been unbanned w/o input from any such committee of diverse viewpoints. I don't have much faith that Musk will not act unilaterally in service of his friends and allies.

Babylon Bee being suspended was one of the dumber things the previous Twitter rules had done. It's a satire site, it's right leaning, nothing in the piece they said was hateful or even an unpopular view. Kanye's ban, he's just a mentally ill person. I don't think he meant "death con" he just didn't know that it's actually "def con." His remarks are still reprehensible. Twitter's whole moderation problem has been it i…

I really don’t think Kanye is mentally ill or anti-Semitic, people are just claiming both or either of those as a way of “poisoning the well” about what he’s actually saying, check out this recent interview with ex-CNN Cuomo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQwaOfBb-s8
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