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A comment on Twitter says it 'inadvertently' limited engagements on Trump's flagged tweets. Parent comment

Re:Twitter says it 'inadvertently' limited engagements on Tr... by sova on Sunday December 13, 2020 @12:53AM (#25404613)
Our nation is built on open discourse. One could argue that rather than silence opposition, one could inform the population. The "mother and father know best" attitude helps no one and fosters doubt into the integrity of things
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Re:Twitter says it 'inadvertently' limited engagements on Tr... by Inityx on Sunday December 13, 2020 @03:00AM (#25405049)
The last four years are damning evidence that the so-called "Marketplace of Ideas" is mostly just a petri dish for Fascism.
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Re:Twitter says it 'inadvertently' limited engagements on Tr... by krapp on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:13AM (#25405522)
The fact no one wants to accept in this context is that markets need to be regulated or else they get taken over by snake oil salesmen and racketeers.
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Re:Twitter says it 'inadvertently' limited engagements on Tr... by FranzFerdiNaN on Sunday December 13, 2020 @03:55AM (#25405224)
Open discourse doesn’t mean giving everyone a platform.
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Re:Twitter says it 'inadvertently' limited engagements on Tr... by Dylan16807 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:03AM (#25405481)
Once a single voice is reaching enough people, I would argue that increasing the distribution of their words will on average decrease the amount of discourse. Almost no replies will be heard by a super-celeb, and it's hard to have a meaningful conversation with anyone else in the morass of replies.
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Re:Twitter says it 'inadvertently' limited engagements on Tr... by DangitBobby on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:54AM (#25405034)
Isn't twitter doing exactly that by labeling each tweet explaining the lie(s) it contains?
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