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Please write a book, or at the very least an article... posting on twitter is like writing something on a piece of paper, showing it to your best friend and worst enemy before throwing it in the trash
Every single social media platform that has ever existed makes the same fundamental mistake. They believe that they just have to remove or block the bad actors and bad content and that will make the platform good. The reality is everyone , myself included, can be and will be a bad actor. How do you build and run a "social media" product when the very act of letting anyone respond to anyone with anything is itself the…
Based on this premise we can conclude that the best way to improve Reddit and Twitter is to block everyone.
Reading these threads on twitter is like listening to a friend having a bad mdma trip replaying his whole emotional life to you in a semi incoherent diarrhea like stream of thoughts Please write a book, or at the very least an article... posting on twitter is like writing something on a piece of paper, showing it to your best friend and worst enemy before throwing it in the trash
This thread in particular is really bad.
But it literally could not have been posted in a worse medium for communicating this message. I felt like I had to pat my head and rub my tummy at the same time reading through all this, and to share it succinctly with colleagues resulted in me spending a good 15 minutes cutting and pasting the content.
I've never understood people posting entire blog type posts to.... Twitter.
Every single social media platform that has ever existed makes the same fundamental mistake. They believe that they just have to remove or block the bad actors and bad content and that will make the platform good. The reality is everyone , myself included, can be and will be a bad actor. How do you build and run a "social media" product when the very act of letting anyone respond to anyone with anything is itself the…
The reality is everyone, myself included, can be and will be a bad actor. Based on this premise we can conclude that the best way to improve Reddit and Twitter is to block everyone.
> Our current climate of political polarization makes it easy to think itʻs about the content of the speech, or hate speech, or misinformation, or censorship, or etc etc. Are we sure that it is not the other way around? Didn't social platforms created or increased polarization? I always see this comments from social platforms that take as fact that society is polarized and they work hard to fix it, when I believe tha…
Interesting, in my country spam is very much illegal and I would hazard a guess that it is also illegal in the US, similar to how littering, putting up posters on peoples buildings/cars/walls, graffiti (a form of spam), and so on is also illegal. If I received the amount of spam I get in email as phone calls I would go as far as calling it harassment, and of course robot phone calls are also illegal. Unsolicited email spam is also again the law.
And if spam is against the service agreement on twitter then that could be a computer crime. If the advertisement is fraudulent (as is most spam), it is fraud. Countries also have laws about advertisement, which most spam are unlikely to honor.
So I would make the claim that there is plenty of principled reasons for banning spam, all backed up by laws of the countries that the users and the operators live in.