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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by Gigachad on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:38AM (#31025527)
You can do that on email, irl, with real letters, etc. It hasn’t been a problem. If someone is particularly harassing you then it becomes a legal issue.

What Twitter could do is just stop promoting and spreading content people don’t like. Rather than completely ban problem users like trump, just stop showing them in trending feeds and give people the option to block the users so you don’t see them.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by themitigating on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:54AM (#31025662)
"What Twitter could do is just stop promoting and spreading content people don’t like."

Isn't this censorship?

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by philjohn on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:11AM (#31027278)
Yes - a lot of people claim that shadow banning, downranking etc. are censorship. I disagree, they necessary to keep online places as civil as they are.

There's also content that is regarded by mental health experts as harmful in large quantities - downranking that is also important to not cause existential harm to people.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by danso on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:07AM (#31025785)
Neither email nor written letters are a public forum.
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