Re:Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation
by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:25PM
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The attitude of "If you don't like it, leave!" is allowing the bullies to win.
Minorities, both racial and gender, should be able to use social media without having vitriol spewed at them because they're guilty of being a minority.
Re:Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation
by BlueTemplar on Friday November 04, 2022 @06:33AM
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They can use a different social media. That toxic social media then gets a bad reputation.
Re:Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation
by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday November 04, 2022 @11:39AM
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What happens when every major social network has a bad reputation?
"Start your own" isn't really a viable solution since the greatest challenge of making a social network is getting people to use it.
Re:Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation
by BlueTemplar on Friday November 04, 2022 @04:08PM
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This is yet another antitrust issue, regulation should be put in place so that a private company cannot have own a platform with a market share large enough to become "the" public square.
It is still a choice to participate online. I'm not on Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It doesn't affect my life in the slightest. Someone could be on there right this minute calling me names, and it can't bother me because I don't see it, and I don't let it into my life. This is not a superpower, it's a choice to not engage with social media and all the ills it brings.
Have I occasionally gotten hate mail from an HN post? Sure. I even got a physical threat over E-mail (LOL good luck, guy). If HN ever became as toxic as social media can be, I could just stop posting and reading. Problem solved. Online is not real if you just ignore it.