Twitter Testing out a New Feature

[notimp]

First, what? (I'm not sure I got all of that.. )

Second, this is a big change regardless.

Censor all the things you dont like from public view, is not how our societies were set up. This is not just something that always was - this, is new.

Also 'just ignore it' wont help - if this becomes a new social norm, it will literally change society.

 

[Jiehfeng]

First, what? (I'm not sure I got all of that.. )

Second, this is a big change regardless.

Censor all the things you dont like from public view, is not how how our societies were set up. This is not just something that always was - this, is new.

Also 'just ignore it' wont help - if this becomes a new social norm, it will literally change society.

New? In the past if people didn't like what someone said, the person was stoned to death. That was the censorship.

 

[notimp]

Speakers corner in Hyde Park (Nutters ). Readers letters section in newspapers. New to post enlightenment societies. (edit: Also agora in ancient greece. So even older.)
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Here is good news.

Context for those tests is probably, that social media companies want to get out of any form of social responsibility.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...orks-shouldn-t-be-trying-to-censor-extremists

They dont want to censor themselves anymore.

They want to act as if they only are platforms and harbor no responsibility whatsoever. So they are currently trying out methods to delegate responsibility.

At least it (the tests) makes some sense now (economically.. ).

 

[FAST6191]

Much like I use 1 million moms/the AFA "ban this sick filth" list as a TV show recommendation list (they have better taste that most TV critics I see these days) I can see this drawing attention to comments I care to see if I happen to be on Twitter and looking at a person of dubious morality.

 

[notimp]

But the comments are then - gone.

I imagine the experience being like reading an instagram feed, where everyone is super nice to each other all the time - because thats simply the norm, and anything off norm gets buried. And anything controversial gets censored.

(Thats why I mentioned, that no one here will be surprised, that I hold this opinion... )

I first started to have a problem with similar sensibilities around 'making the internet more safe for our children' when the word 'troll' became something that was deemed entirely bad.

it was literally society imagining how wonderful the world would be, if they just got rid of annoying criticism.

Everybody loved the sound of it - so they did it.