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by ViViDboarder 1667 days ago
To not promote toxicity, one could just avoid amplifying anything that’s a hot button or divisive issue. However, incentives don’t align with that.

The key is the issue is the amplification. Promoting of content you’re not following in feeds.

Of course, completely changing it back to only content from those you follow in chronological order and allowing you to curate would solve that problem as well, but there’s no way they go back to that as there’s far less money involved.
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syshum 1667 days ago
Speech is easy if all you post is kitten video's

The most interesting conversation by necessity have to be "hot button" or "divisive" that is how we grow as a culture, a society.

If we always avoid anything that is divisive than we never can address any problems

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unethical_ban 1667 days ago
Lies and bad faith should not be tolerated in the public square.
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finite_jest 1667 days ago
Well, that's obviously a comment made in "bad faith". People who advocate for censorship should not be tolerated in the public square.
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unethical_ban 1667 days ago
It doesn't mean "something I don't like". It means an outright lie, or a statement made in order to mislead or bait people into useless or malicious behavior.

Trolling, lying, saying stupid and libelous things with the intent to anger. Bad faith is about intent.

I also look forward to the day that "censorship" is allowed nuance. If you think Twitter deciding it won't be a party to disinformation campaigns is "censorship", we have bigger issues.

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finite_jest 1667 days ago
It probably is not what you personally mean, but outright censorship is what will likely happen if we do not actively resist the calls for silencing the deplorables. Freedom of expression is not the default state of the world.

Do you believe that Twitter banning the Hunter Biden laptop story (to the extent that you couldn't even DM a link to it to other users) before the election wasn't an act of political corporate censorship?

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ViViDboarder 1666 days ago
Sure, I didn’t say those conversations shouldn’t happen, just that they could avoid amplifying them without picking a side.
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