Twitter’s Election Interference

"Election Interference" is ycombonator's opinion and the word is not part of the article's title or text. As per guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Seems like a worthwhile nudge. They should make it permanent. I think retweets are a major contributor to Twitter's uniquely hostile atmosphere, and are the reason I stopped bothering with it years ago.

And yeah I know you can disable them on a per-user basis. I'm still happier off the platform entirely.

A sad and pathetic state of affairs we have come to when people can no longer debate ideas without attacking people.

Yes, it certainly is. And as far as I can tell, we've been here for around 30 years. Longer, really, though the early 90s seem to me to mark an inflection point in nastiness.

From there it has all proceeded methodically to take advantage of new technologies and expand it to its logical conclusion. What's changed recently isn't the nastiness but that people have been forced to recognize that it's not just the discourse but that it has become national policy.

Unfortunately, by that point, it's almost certainly too late.