“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civility of conversation”

Re:“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civi... by commandlinefan on Friday March 02, 2018 @02:16PM (#16504734)

Back in the 90's, we used to scoff at the idea that the internet would be subject to widespread censorship - "the internet detects censorship as damage and routes around it" was what we used to say. It's starting to look like not only were we wrong, but that the internet is shaping up to be the ultimate censorship tool.

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Re:“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civi... by dfxm12 on Friday March 02, 2018 @06:03PM (#16506577)

Twitter is not the Internet. The Internet is not Twitter. Platforms come and go. My computer will always be able to be connected to yours, though.

If you're worried about communications going through a third-party, privately owned service getting censored, then you're communicating wrong.

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Re:“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civi... by krapp on Friday March 02, 2018 @06:09PM (#16506611)

The web isn't even the internet.

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Re:“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civi... by userbinator on Friday March 02, 2018 @11:04PM (#16507786)

It's more like "the internet detects censorship as desirable and strives toward it" now.

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