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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by nradov on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @11:31AM (#31168748)
There are no community norms at the scale of Twitter. It's helpful to have community norms for a small forum to discuss model trains or mountain biking or whatever. But Twitter users are a cross section of the whole world. There's nothing to unify them.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by IgorPartola on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:15PM (#31170227)
Yup, that’s my point. This is why dang doesn’t scale.

Twitter clearly has utility. But it will never be a nice place to hang out except in some very localized parts of it.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by cbozeman on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @07:02AM (#31178468)
The norms are, and should be, what the United States considers norms.

It was built in America, by Americans, and now, is about to be owned by an American. And like America, everyone is (should be) welcome... provided you honor our Western traditions of free speech.

I like what Musk said about free speech within the limits of the law. I think that's a good place to settle things.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by IgorPartola on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @09:34AM (#31179669)
Does the US have a uniform set of norms? Last I checked it was pretty divided.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by nradov on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @12:23PM (#31182019)
The US has a uniform set of federal laws and Supreme Court opinions, which is what matters here.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by IgorPartola on Thursday April 28, 2022 @03:29PM (#31197124)
Wow that is pretty naive. Let’s see:

A lot of stalking and harassment laws are state level and not the same in every state. Since online harassment is a common problem on Twitter, which state’s laws would you like to apply?

Spreading misinformation that results in violence towards an individual is not governed by federal laws unless it falls under the definition of a hate crime.

Spreading misinformation about results of elections isn’t illegal but is very obviously quite damaging and has real world consequences. How do you tackle this issue?

That’s just a very very small sample. The problem you are going to face with your approach is that the US laws were not designed with the idea of governing stuff on Twitter.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by cbozeman on Monday May 02, 2022 @03:30PM (#31239708)
> Spreading misinformation about results of elections isn’t illegal but is very obviously quite damaging and has real world consequences. How do you tackle this issue?

You don't. People are legally allowed to spread misinformation.

> The problem you are going to face with your approach is that the US laws were not designed with the idea of governing stuff on Twitter.

Yes they were... you just don't like the way American laws handle these things.

Difference.