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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Idk why Twitter insists on listening to complaints at all. Offended people can go fuck themselves. Seriously. You don’t like what someone said? Okay. Well, take it up with that person. Twitter shouldn’t be playing policeman, at all.
It’s just words on an internet platform. And the offended are just people who are upset. Lots of people are upset at lots of things. There’s no duty for a platform to play referee for these complaints.
I’m sick of the offended. Sincerely, Fuck The Offended. Being offended isn’t a special quality. It doesn’t confer any gravitas or rights. You don’t like something? Don’t look at it. Or tell the person you’re offended. I doubt the offender will give a shit, as he probably intended to offend and by carping at him you’re just giving him what he wants. But if ignoring the offender isn’t enough for you, well, that’s your alternative. Have at it.
But don’t infect my news feed with stories about how offended you are, or try to ban people from offering their offending views to the rest of us who may not be offended by them. I don’t fucking care about the offended. And when they demand attention for being offended, they’re making themselves into something far worse than offensive: Irritating. And when they seek to censor what I can view on a platform, they’re fucking with the quality and quantity of content. That entitles me, IMO, to kick their actual IRL asses. …If only that were possible.
TL;DR: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6k73Rfyu0DI |
Every platform does some kind of moderation because if they don't, things go south and the government (in the broad sense, including the courts) does something. None of them want to do it, because it's expensive and time consuming and a pain in the ass and, as that author says, they would all rather be spending time designing another feature. But they all do it, and they make mistakes, because that's inevitable too.
