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It's impossible to detect negative sentiment purely by text. It's an unsolvable problem.
It's more fundamental than that. Some forms of speech can indirectly or directly limit the speech of others. Free speech absolutism in an unachievable panacea; it is a logical fallacy.
Freedom of speech is freedom from censorship or moderation. Not freedom from discomfort
That is, what I find so awful about most social media (and places like YouTube) is how they focus on some of the most anger-inducing content for "engagement". That is, I think the problem is much more their algorithms than what people actually post.
That said, I think that, realistically, being at the bottom of the heap won't actually be much different from being banned - which I actually think is a good thing.
There's still a question of how "negative/hate" is defined and whether this will be transparent. I'm skeptical, but the general principle of discouraging and not profiting from negativity is, uh, positive.
We have laws that define this. What changed was that a small group of technocrats took it upon themselves that any questioning of their ideology was “hate speech.”
Further in the thread he names some banned accounts that will be reinstated. A couple weeks ago, Elon said that Twitter’s content policy (and account reinstatement) would be decided by a moderation council composed of people with diverse views. There have been no reports of this council being formed yet. Edit: why was this post flagged?
Kathie Griffin, Jorden Peterson & Babylon Bee have been reinstated.
Trump decision has not yet been made.
There's still a question of how "negative/hate" is defined and whether this will be transparent. I'm skeptical, but the general principle of discouraging and not profiting from negativity is, uh, positive.
Negativity is an extremely broad concept. There is no chance that “negative” tweets will be uniformly deboosted. Will Elon deboost tweets from Ukrainians condemning Russian war crimes? Will he deboost his own negative tweets toward US politicians? Will he deboost US politicians’ tweets criticizing the other party? Will he deboost tweets critical of his management of Twitter? Discouraging “negativity” necessarily mean…
Note that this is the dictionary definition of shadowbanning, which is the primary thing the free speech advocates on Twitter were hoping Elon would stop Twitter from doing.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's impossible to detect negative sentiment purely by text. It's an unsolvable problem.
It's more fundamental than that. Some forms of speech can indirectly or directly limit the speech of others. Free speech absolutism in an unachievable panacea; it is a logical fallacy.
Elon “free speech” Musk. >Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized. Guess this guy finally realized that a free for all model is not feasible.
It's impossible to detect negative sentiment purely by text. It's an unsolvable problem.
Brute force stats like Naive Bayes is still as good as it gets on platforms like Twitter where speech patterns are too short and irregular for traditional NLP to be very useful.