[pessimizer]

> And if you do that, Twitter then becomes a 280 character 4chan/8kun-like platform.

I feel like it's important to note during these discussions that twitter was a 4chan-like platform until it started doing political censorship leading up to the 2020 election, and it is currently a 4chan-like platform that practices political censorship and virtually no other type (4chan is a very successful and influential platform that other platforms, like reddit, imitated.)

You can freely follow any random person and reply "you're a fucking idiot" after every tweet they make, and twitter will not be interested. You can create a #fuckingidiot hashtag and organize hundreds of people under it with the sole purpose of harassing this one person. Twitter will not be interested in it, and will not censor you.

Twitter is not censoring for civility, it's censoring for orthodoxy.

[heavyset_go]

> You can freely follow any random person and reply "you're a fucking idiot" after every tweet they make, and twitter will not be interested

This isn't true, I've reported such tweets in the past and Twitter ended up locking accounts and suspending some for it.

[pessimizer]

Type in #NAFO. A Poland-based social media disruption operation, literally supported by the state department and feted by Adam Kinzinger. Survey the tweets.

[res0nat0r]

And this is the hell that Elon is bringing upon himself and all of his companies now that he owns Twitter.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitt...

[pessimizer]

Open harassers and disruptors are not actually that hard to find and moderate. The problem is lack of desire, not ability. There are various government departments that have harassment operations going on twitter, and there was a story not too long ago about twitter actually warning the government that their operations were becoming too obvious to ignore.