Re:Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour
by hoosieree on Thursday September 06, 2018 @08:46PM
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Twitter is "about" advertising; everything else is incidental. Bans only happen if Twitter believes that doing so (a) gains users or (b) prevents users from leaving.
Hate speech, election meddling, threats of nuclear war - it all gets a free pass until it stops generating "impressions".
But they only do it because we (as a group) let them get away with it. If 30% of Twitter users left, the platform wouldn't last a week.
Hate speech, election meddling, threats of nuclear war - it all gets a free pass until it stops generating "impressions".
But they only do it because we (as a group) let them get away with it. If 30% of Twitter users left, the platform wouldn't last a week.