Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by themitigating on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:36AM
(#31025508)
If that was true why are unregulated platforms, like 4chan, not popular?
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by throwawaylinux on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:39AM
(#31025538)
If what was true?
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by themitigating on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:43AM
(#31025570)
"...absolutely could be the modern town square and would be great if it supported real freedom of speech, in my opinion."
My claim is that (in the US) if a platform allowed everything that was legal it wouldn't be popular.
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by throwawaylinux on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:47AM
(#31025601)
I don't see how a comparison with 4chan is any evidence for that. There are also heavily regulated forums which are not popular. So clearly that's not the reason for whether or not one is going to be popular.
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by themitigating on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:01AM
(#31025726)
Per you: how regulated/censored a platform is doesn't have an effect on its popularity
However your first comment says "far better in my opinion for twitter..."
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by throwawaylinux on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:11PM
(#31034649)
I didn't say it doesn't have an effect.
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by WithinReason on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:07AM
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It's not difficult to understand the argument: 4chan is the largest unregulated platform, much smaller than the largest regulated platforms.
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by throwawaylinux on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:12PM
(#31034658)
And it's a fallacy because there are many differences between them.
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by WithinReason on Friday April 15, 2022 @12:00PM
(#31041728)
Statistics is not a fallacy
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by throwawaylinux on Saturday April 16, 2022 @04:39AM
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Non sequitur.
Go to any political tweet and you'll see countless hateful messages, why aren't they banned, yet others are? I've never seen any reason for it. Clearly they take a side or draw a line on some issues they consider important to control, but not others.
It seems to me it would be far better in my opinion for twitter to foster strength rather than fragility by empowering users to take responsibility for their own feelings and have the tools and maturity to not read things they can't cope with, rather than trying to police what people write centrally. It absolutely could be the modern town square and would be great if it supported real freedom of speech, in my opinion.