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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by detcader on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:39AM (#31026822)
Do you ask the Chamber of Commerce which malls and stores to frequent whenever you want to shop? I think that would be a great way to avoid the bad areas with all the hobos and sketchy businesses that are probably fronts for drug dealers anyway.

You can "choose moderation" by not viewing Twitter accounts and conversations you don't care about and muting words you dislike.

Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by 7steps2much on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:00AM (#31027138)
> You can "choose moderation" by not viewing Twitter accounts and conversations you don't care about and muting words you dislike.

In that case however I would also like the possibility to turn off any algorithms that recommend stuff to me. I want to see only things i put on my whitelist, otherwise i will have to constantly moderate and it will take up loads of my time.

As long as that doesn't happen I am more than happy to let others do the moderation based on some frameworks that I agreed on (ToS in Twitters case).

Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by detcader on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:00AM (#31040335)
If you think a ToS can capture every bigotry, propaganda technique, and misinformation campaign in perpetuity, I am impressed and hope for success in installing it on every centralized internet platform. Otherwise we would need individual humans at a corporation owned by rich men interpreting a vague set of principles about what "hate" and "misinfo" means, which is a different discussion...

But I'm not sure how it could work without having users agree to a new ToS frequently, due to things like the Euphemism Treadmill: https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2020/08/ableist-language-and-t...