So spare us all the "No hate and violence on our platform" BS. Either you go after all hate and violence or you are just a hypocrite.
So spare us all the "No hate and violence on our platform" BS. Either you go after all hate and violence or you are just a hypocrite.
Stop trying to convince these people of hypocrisy. They aren’t listening to critics and they lack the ability to see the world outside of the tight frame they were provided. We are all like this most of the time but I find that the moral panics have created situations where online communication is not possible along political lines.
Focus on you, not them. People who build ideas from self-reflection are less volatile and not as susceptible to moral panic than those who define themselves by politics.
If all people tried as hard to understand each other as they do framing their political opponents as evil, we wouldn’t be in this place. Interesting times.
To the best of my knowledge, YouTube tries hard to do this. And Twitter has been trying to do a better job at this. And Facebook hasn't been particularly good about doing this at all. If I am completely wrong about this, someone should set the record straight.
Perhaps their position is evolving. I'd be curious to revisit the evolution of this problem 365 days from now and take another checkpoint.
But... horses, barn, door
The fact that a platform didn’t do the right thing before, doesn’t mean it can’t do it now.
What, you came out of the womb with perfect understanding of right from wrong?