Live data from Hacker News

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

twitter.com

431–440 of 1001 posts

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

#431
post #405

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Judge panels (like SCOTUS), county boards, city councils, school boards, non-profit boards and councils, corporate boards.

I actually don't think this is the case. Almost all of these in the US are largely bipartisan, not nonpartisan. In some cases they also tend to self select for people that favor certain viewpoints. NIMBYism is prevalent in local government, for example. They're optimized to serve the interests of the two prevailing parties in the US, which aren't the only two legitimate viewpoints.

I’ve had better experiences and I also find that issues that aren’t neatly D or R weigh more heavily on them in smaller or more local jurisdictions. I think there is a good case to be made for a similar dynamic on a social media’s board, where the mechanics of good moderation and guidance, combined with cordial operating principles, should be too front-and-center to ignore.

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

#432
post #345

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. Twitter banned the Babylon Bee for targeting a random and rather anonymous bureaucrat that likely isn't among the 1000 most powerful people in government in the US for the sole purpose that she is trans. This target…

The piece satirized the confusion between sex and gender. It has only been very, very recently that we have gone from "gender is a social construct" to "sex is a social construct." It's still a highly debated topic and well within the public sphere of debate. Also, this person was a public official and was in the news from general news outlets (named Woman of the Year) which puts them well within the public realm of…

>It has only been very, very recently that we have gone from...

Would you have said the same thing about ridiculing someone for being openly gay in government 30 years ago, being Catholic in government 60 years ago, or being Black in government 80 years ago?

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

#433

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

I only follow about 25 people on Twitter, Elon Musk is not one of them. Yet the first tweet in my feed when I just opened up the homepage is Elon Musk said "let the good times roll" 8 hours ago.

Why haven't you muted Elon Musk yet? Do you want to see or not see Elon Musk's tweets? If you don't want to see Elon Musk's tweets, mute him right now. If you want to see Elon Musk's tweets, it's mighty strange to complain.

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

#434
post #7

This sort of justifies the viewpoint that despite all his bluster, Elon will probably run Twitter the way a "reasonable executive" would. Not just release the hounds. Keep the advertisers happy, but try to reduce the reliance on advertisers. Keep moderating content to reduce abuse, maybe eliminate the high profile banning but a person on the ground will have largely the same experience. (probably less action on more…

"Keep the advertisers happy, but try to reduce the reliance on advertisers." I actually think the opposite is going to happen. He's already said he wants Twitter to be the most prolific site for advertisers saying that he thinks advertising can "delight, entertain, and inform you." If he introduces a subscription model TikTok will pull ahead and take over the entire social media space.

Yeah, I'll be curious to see, now this is not first hand, but I was referencing this pitch deck to investors which seems like the most honest version of Elon? Since it's directly connected to the money, but who knows.

https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2022/musks-pi...

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

#435
post #416
post #345

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. Twitter banned the Babylon Bee for targeting a random and rather anonymous bureaucrat that likely isn't among the 1000 most powerful people in government in the US for the sole purpose that she is trans. This target…

This is the random and anonymous person, right? One of USA Today's 2022 Women of the Year? https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2022/03/13/rachel-...

That list looks pretty "random and anonymous" to me. How many people on that list do you think an average person would recognize? I can't imagine it is more than 2 out of the 11 award recipients and many won't know a single one?

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

#437

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'm not sure most people here have seen the corner of Twitter known as "black Twitter." This is the part of Twitter where people (most of them from racial minorities) discuss things like "the Jews are keeping minorities poor," and "abortion is racist eugenics." I don't know how they don't all get banned, but they somehow have a very vibrant community. The level of antisemitism that Kanye (no, I will not call him "Ye"…

Anti-Semitism and anti-Asian views are pretty popular in the black community (I can't say to what degree but high enough that it shows up in hate crime stats), just as much as it exists in the white community. It gets swept under the rug and never really addressed; I've even seen that the idea that minorities can't be racist (even towards other minorities) being actively perpetuated on social media. I think that should change. Kanye is a big voice, but he's hardly a lone voice.

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

#438

I got a 7 day ban for a tweet that included “political suicide pact” as an idiom. I then got permanently banned for including the line, “sending their children to die in Ukraine” in a tweet. The “appeal” button causes me to get a denied email within one minute. This tells me no humans are in the loop on any of this. I don’t think these tweets were controversial or require any diversity of viewpoints. They just requir…

On the other hand, I’ve reported posts for using racial slurs (you know the one) and for calling for genocide … and been cheerfully told they didn’t break any rules but that I can block the user if my feelings were hurt. These sites aren’t moderated ideologically, they’re moderated randomly

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

#439
post #416
post #345

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. Twitter banned the Babylon Bee for targeting a random and rather anonymous bureaucrat that likely isn't among the 1000 most powerful people in government in the US for the sole purpose that she is trans. This target…

This is the random and anonymous person, right? One of USA Today's 2022 Women of the Year? https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2022/03/13/rachel-...

Are they known to the public is what's important

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

#440
post #419
post #345

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. Twitter banned the Babylon Bee for targeting a random and rather anonymous bureaucrat that likely isn't among the 1000 most powerful people in government in the US for the sole purpose that she is trans. This target…

Babylon Bee was not first to “target” Levine. Washington Post, for example, has run an article on Levine before Bee, also for the sole purpose of Levine being trans: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/19/levine-tran... If WaPo can bring out “random bureaucrats” to public attention for sole reason of being trans, why can’t Bee do the same?

Giving an award to a Black person has slightly different connotations when it is done at a NAACP meeting compared to a Klan meeting.
Post reply on HN