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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Nope. Not a single word of that is what I said. Try again.
You appear to be fundamentally confused about what I'm saying, so if you think you've been agreeing with me, we are clearly disagreeing.
I do not think Twitter is run by ideologues. I do not think it's run by liberals. (P.S. -- I know more than my share of people who work there.) I do not think its policies are dictated by woke ideologues, whether employees or users.
I do think it is run as a business. For business reasons, non-ideological business reasons, they moderate posts. They agitate people of all stripes when they do this, and convince various people that there is viewpoint discrimination, even though that is not what is going on.
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FWIW, there is even moderation, though very light, here. Once or twice a year, someone comes to me to ask that something be removed (almost always their own posts, almost always months or years old), and I always do it. I don't ask questions other than the parameter of the post(s) they'd like removed. I later confirm deletion, and that's the end of it. At least one entire account was deleted this way.
This place is unique in a) we have mutually agreed upon ground rules that are fundamental, mainly based on anonymity (though I'd say most of us are out to pretty much everyone else at this point), b) a very small population that has not increased in over 15 years, c) a deep seeded understanding that fucking up by pushing too far could destroy the whole place and no one really wants to do that.
That said, if one of you started issuing credible threats (death or otherwise, ie outing) to one of our community members, I'd probably get involved. I probably wouldn't do it unilaterally, but it would entirely depend on the circumstances.
ETA: Given the nature of the forum, banning people for spouting dangerous bullshit would pretty much eliminate the entire population.
