[isochronous]

"People claim Twitter can't possibly moderate content at scale, except that Twitter makes money at that same scale."

I'm sorry, but is that supposed to be a logical argument? Because it doesn't actually make any sense. Twitter is a platform that allows pretty much anyone with an internet connection to post content. There were, on average, 500 million tweets posted per day last year.

So on one side you have the set of potential content creators, churning out half a billion tweets per day, and that number will almost certainly continue to steadily increase. So, as a company with a set amount of income, and who is beholden to its shareholders, what's your plan to moderate 500 million tweets per day while still turning a reasonable profit?

[throw_m239339]

> I'm sorry, but is that supposed to be a logical argument?

Yes, because these social medias can't have it both ways, I already addressed that. If you make money at scale, well you are responsible for moderation at scale, period.

Your argument is just apologizing for Twitter's bad behaviour when it comes to illegal content moderation.

[al_chemist]

> There were, on average, 500 million tweets posted per day last year.

How many of them had photos and were reported as crime?

[mcguire]

Under what rules is Twitter required to turn a reasonable profit? (What is a "reasonable" profit?)

[isochronous]

Are you familiar with how publicly traded corporations work?

[mcguire]

Yes. Are you?

[briandear]

And yet the App Store hasn’t banned Twitter as they did Parler. If the media started reporting about pedophilic content on Twitter and that Twitter’s TOS explicitly allowed pedophiles to discuss their attractions, would the tech gatekeepers continue to allow Twitter? Because this stuff isn’t a secret, but Twitter hasn’t been banned which makes it pretty clear that the Parler and related bans were politically motivated rather than protecting people from harmful content.

But we let Twitter get away with these things because the Blue Checks are mostly leftist or hard-left politically and they’d lose their minds if Twitter were banned from app stores.

[isochronous]

That's because twitter actually has content moderation policies in place that they do their best to apply. They're obviously not perfect, but again, the whole reason the app store banned parler was that they had no workable moderation plan in place. Twitter does.