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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by cryptoz on Thursday October 15, 2020 @04:29PM (#24793475)
The word 'bot' is overloaded unfortunately. It means today, both a robot as before, and also, a person who is unwilling or unable to have a normal conversation. Real people are 'bots' too today, when they don't actually talk to other people but only parrot the same points repeatedly. They may as well be robots as far as we can tell from their text online.

> 10 people accused of being bots because the accuser can't cope with people who disagree with them.

If those 10 people aren't really talking, though, then I would consider them bots too. If they are stating one point, over and over, and refusing to listen to others or change their minds about anything, then...they're bots.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by rightbyte on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:46PM (#24794468)
You can't talk on Twitter. Any thread loses its order and it branches randomly. Different users sees different threads. It is made to encourage monologues. I guess it is why it is popular among politicians, celebs and journalist.
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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by bigbubba on Thursday October 15, 2020 @04:37PM (#24793590)
Maybe those ten accused people have the problem, or maybe their accusor has the problem. It's just as likely that somebody throwing around insults like 'bot' is the person with the problem. If I call somebody a jackass, maybe it's because they're a jackass or maybe it's because I am the jackass.
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