Re:Twitter has lost liability protection in India, governmen...
by rektide on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:40AM
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unlike newspapers Twitter is a crucial tool for everday citizens to share themselves with the world. unlike newspapers
> Twitter is put on par with newspapers, because they do gatekeeping and have accepted bias.
Twitter does some minimal moderation, and everything& everyone has bias. calling them a newspaper though? no. that's absurd. there's no pretense here that this is truth, that people are reporting. one's entering a bazaar of voices.
I don't get the impulse to be cruel & constraining & mean to these democratic emerging mediums. demanding that they fulfill certain roles we want them to have is unjust, a horrible constraint against creativity & liberty.
> Twitter is put on par with newspapers, because they do gatekeeping and have accepted bias.
Twitter does some minimal moderation, and everything& everyone has bias. calling them a newspaper though? no. that's absurd. there's no pretense here that this is truth, that people are reporting. one's entering a bazaar of voices.
I don't get the impulse to be cruel & constraining & mean to these democratic emerging mediums. demanding that they fulfill certain roles we want them to have is unjust, a horrible constraint against creativity & liberty.