Re:Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets abou...
by freedomben on Saturday December 12, 2020 @02:31PM
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I don't think we can escape philosophy. For example you it sounds to me like you are arguing for the philosophy of pragmatic consequentialism :-D
Who's outcome is most important here then? Is it Twitter's, is it the users, or the public at large? And how do you determine which is what? Draw a line at 50% and say if it benefits (a subjective measure) more than 50% then it's a good outcome, otherwise bad?
Philosophizing is not going to get you anywhere, really. It's a technique of the past. There are many competing effects at play here. I think the more rational approach is to actually study the real world system to find a policy optimum that achieves a set goal. Philosophy should be relegated to figuring out that goal e.g. should it be democracy over all else or maybe individual rights or something else.