Speech is easy if all you post is kitten video's
The most interesting conversation by necessity have to be "hot button" or "divisive" that is how we grow as a culture, a society.
If we always avoid anything that is divisive than we never can address any problems
Re:I resigned from Twitter
by unethical_ban on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:07PM
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Lies and bad faith should not be tolerated in the public square.
Re:I resigned from Twitter
by finite_jest on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:23PM
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Well, that's obviously a comment made in "bad faith". People who advocate for censorship should not be tolerated in the public square.
Re:I resigned from Twitter
by unethical_ban on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:50PM
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It doesn't mean "something I don't like". It means an outright lie, or a statement made in order to mislead or bait people into useless or malicious behavior.
Trolling, lying, saying stupid and libelous things with the intent to anger. Bad faith is about intent.
I also look forward to the day that "censorship" is allowed nuance. If you think Twitter deciding it won't be a party to disinformation campaigns is "censorship", we have bigger issues.
Re:I resigned from Twitter
by finite_jest on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:58PM
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It probably is not what you personally mean, but outright censorship is what will likely happen if we do not actively resist the calls for silencing the deplorables. Freedom of expression is not the default state of the world.
Do you believe that Twitter banning the Hunter Biden laptop story (to the extent that you couldn't even DM a link to it to other users) before the election wasn't an act of political corporate censorship?
Re:I resigned from Twitter
by ViViDboarder on Monday November 29, 2021 @10:58PM
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Sure, I didn’t say those conversations shouldn’t happen, just that they could avoid amplifying them without picking a side.
The key is the issue is the amplification. Promoting of content you’re not following in feeds.
Of course, completely changing it back to only content from those you follow in chronological order and allowing you to curate would solve that problem as well, but there’s no way they go back to that as there’s far less money involved.