Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by lovecg on Saturday January 09, 2021 @03:00AM (#25698531)

In this case you had people with flags bearing a specific person’s name on them. Certainly muting the only person bearing that name will have a direct effect.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by AnthonyMouse on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:41AM (#25701829)

The direct effect being that the bulk of the people on the other side of the isle lose the last shred of respect for these institutions, and switch to or create other sites, causing each side to become part of a permanent echo chamber with a mutually irreconcilable set of accepted facts that cause members of the different groups to come into violent disagreement whenever they encounter one another in physical reality.

I thought the goal was supposed to be to do something that reduced the probability of violent conflict?

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by lovecg on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:12PM (#25703501)

You’re underestimating the value of immediate, global, and easily accessible coordination. Trump can try to build his own Twitter but it’s nowhere near the trivial proposition you’re making it out to be. Without this coordination mechanism the mob becomes headless and decentralized.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by AnthonyMouse on Saturday January 09, 2021 @04:08PM (#25704755)

The hardest part about creating your own Twitter is convincing enough people to switch at once to create a critical mass. Transferring the sitting President of the United States and several other prominent members of his party at the same time in a very public way is exactly how you induce that to happen.

That Parler thing was temporarily offline under the load of all the new users. That's not the problem you have when you're having the actual problem of convincing enough people to switch.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by lovecg on Saturday January 09, 2021 @04:42PM (#25705099)

That’s one thing that’s hard about it. Scaling and running the service reliably is far from trivial and this tends to be severely underestimated by “let’s just build a competitor” crowd.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by AnthonyMouse on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:06PM (#25707897)

> Scaling and running the service reliably is far from trivial and this tends to be severely underestimated by “let’s just build a competitor” crowd.

This is not a trivial problem, but it's also not one that hasn't been solved a hundred times before, and seems to be something they've already handled.

But I also want to put something in juxtaposition here. You have on the one hand the argument that this isn't censorship because they're a private company and you can just make your own. On the other hand, the argument that booting them off is useful because making your own is impractical and they'll fail. If one is true then the other isn't, right?

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by Kim_Bruning on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:54PM (#25705898)

https://parler.com/

Didn't everyone move to Parler?

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by jantap on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:03AM (#25728321)

that aged like fine milk

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