They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care
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Re: They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care
#2Extremely sad to hear. I don't think Twitter can be used to promote change. Or get your voice to the masses. They only care about propagating their own propaganda.
Leave Twitter. Try one of the mastodon instances, instead. Be anonymous.
Re: They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care
#3Extremely sad to hear. I don't think Twitter can be used to promote change. Or get your voice to the masses. They only care about propagating their own propaganda. Leave Twitter. Try one of the mastodon instances, instead. Be anonymous.
Twitter is such a cacophony, like trying to have a conversation in the middle of a rock concert. I get better quality information and news from Hacker News.
Re: They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care
#4Extremely sad to hear. I don't think Twitter can be used to promote change. Or get your voice to the masses. They only care about propagating their own propaganda. Leave Twitter. Try one of the mastodon instances, instead. Be anonymous.
Twitter is such a cacophony, like trying to have a conversation in the middle of a rock concert. I get better quality information and news from Hacker News.
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Re: They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care
#5He complains that Twitter doesn't know local Pakistani politics, but what would be the answer in this case? Set up national moderation offices? In this very case, they would just say yeah he's a spy... Unless you want random unaccountable expats making judgment calls about your government
Re: They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care
#6I'm not saying Twitter is in the right here, but I'm not convinced by the article that Twitter is meaningfully increasing the danger to the OP. Is a corrupt government really going to avoid kidnapping/torturing someone because they're popular on Twitter?
Re: They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care
#7He complains that Twitter doesn't know local Pakistani politics, but what would be the answer in this case? Set up national moderation offices? In this very case, they would just say yeah he's a spy... Unless you want random unaccountable expats making judgment calls about your government
Moderation is already localised by language. It's not such a stretch to extend this to some basic regional knowledge.
Re: They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care
#8Extremely sad to hear. I don't think Twitter can be used to promote change. Or get your voice to the masses. They only care about propagating their own propaganda. Leave Twitter. Try one of the mastodon instances, instead. Be anonymous.
Wouldn't trying to remain anonymous as a journalist be rather ineffective?
Re: They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care
#9Extremely sad to hear. I don't think Twitter can be used to promote change. Or get your voice to the masses. They only care about propagating their own propaganda. Leave Twitter. Try one of the mastodon instances, instead. Be anonymous.
> I don't think Twitter can be used to promote change. Or get your voice to the masses.
To me, both the effects of and responses to Mr. Ahmed's tweets seem to show that Twitter can be used to promote change and get your voice to the masses. It just doesn't distinguish between "good" change/voices and "bad" change/voices.
Re: They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care
#10I'm not saying Twitter is in the right here, but I'm not convinced by the article that Twitter is meaningfully increasing the danger to the OP. Is a corrupt government really going to avoid kidnapping/torturing someone because they're popular on Twitter?
I believe their point is that Twitter should delete or flag the accounts that are spreading false information about him (the journalist).