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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
That's fine. All moderation tends not to be transparent, for reasons that are clear to anyone who pays attention. You're ideologically opposed to moderation. I'm often not a fan of it either, but not because I think Twitter is run by the woke. I'm not a fan because it's inconsistent, capricious, easily gamed, and difficult to correct. I think that social media companies have a social responsibility to do it right, and can't be bothered, and I think the people who are working at them and enabling stuff like COVID disinformation and ethnic cleansing of the Rohynga ought to take a long look in the mirror. I have a much bigger problem with Facebook and Google (esp. Youtube) on this score than Twitter, because both of them algorithmically promote harmful crap to make themselves money. Twitter might like to do this more, but has the wrong basic model for it. The thing I like most about Twitter is that I can decide whom to follow, and when they start messing with that basic architecture, that pisses me off, as a user.
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I agree it’s inconsistent and capricious. But I’ll add that I think it is also ripe for abuse.
It’s a perfect excuse for Musk to say “I didn’t do the CCP’s bidding. The algorithm did it.”
