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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Bullshit. The thread you cited, and you yourself, asserted that Twitter does not seek to craft consensus and does not desire to moderate anything. It merely reacts to complaints from right and left.
They're not "react[ing] to complaints from right and left." They're reacting. Some of
We agree on that. You just dislike the necessary extension of that, which is that in doing so, in reacting to those complaints, Twitter is reacting to ideologues.
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I don't believe either the thread or I said Twitter reacts to complaints from right and left -- you are introducing ideology as the source of the complaints, and I disagree. You have this assumption that the only reason people object to tweets is ideological disagreement, but the express point of the thread, with which I agree, is that platform instead start moderating speech because it is causing some other real-world problem. To quote from the thread.
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Example: the "lab leak" theory (a controversial theory that is now probably true; I personally believe so) was "censored" at a certain time in the history of the pandemic because the "debate" included ...
massive amounts of horrible behavior, spam-level posting, and abuse that spilled over into the real world - e.g. harrassment of public officials and doctors, racially-motivated crimes, etc.
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Do you see the difference between what he's saying and what you're saying? He's saying that the issue is not the ideology, it's the horrible behavior IRL.
eta: You now seem to be abandoning your "crafting consensus" BS, so that's something.
