Twitter Fails to Remove 99% of Hate Speech by Blue-Check Users
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Twitter’s new policy is “freedom of speech, but not necessarily freedom of reach” and it seems to be going okay.
You should be able to say what you want but that doesn’t mean that it’ll be able to trend. It also means that Twitter is not in the business of making judgements on what is socially acceptable to say.
Also the new community notes feature has been great for countering misinformation/extremely biased takes. They only appear when a mix of people who have diverse backgrounds have said that they are useful, which I think is pretty balanced.
> You should be able to say what you want but that doesn’t mean that it’ll be able to trend. It also means that Twitter is not in the business of making judgements on what is socially acceptable to say.
Unless you say something which annoys Elon, or try to tell people about Mastadon.
https://observer.com/2022/12/elon-musk-suspend-twitter-accou...
WRT the elonjet thing, they have a policy against doxxing.
>Twitter also banned Sweeney’s personal account and his other two accounts tracking the private jets of Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg.
Seems like it was applied fairly to me.
2) If the actual policies are back in play for this discussion--rather than the entirely-not-the-case thing about freedom of speech being upheld without a freedom of reach--then I recommend you read them as they definitely cover the content being cited in this article.
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules
(But like, the article also directly quotes the policy and juxtaposes it with the problematic content... which is also what you are doing to defend yourself against me trying to show that your own claim is false... so I hope you can see that your position is internally inconsistent?)
This I believe is the definition being used in the link, not just "basically any speech that you don't like."
"Hate speech" is the new "think of the children". An easy (and socially acceptable, apparently) way to silence and smear critics.
The Babylon Bee is the perfect example of this. They were banned from Twitter for making an obvious joke about a trans person, because any joke at the expense of trans people was considered hate speech. Why? Well because they consider anything negative said about them to be encouraging violence. There was no objective measure, it was all about feelings.
In my, and some other peoples', opinion, Free speech is broken in a world where I can silence you by claiming you made me feel attacked.
There are a million other examples of this kind of thing happening under the old Twitter leadership.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/brandenburg_test
It's not a huge leap to apply this standard to protected classes.
On the surface this makes sense, except it's ignoring the reality that online-based communications sidesteps all our built-in controls that exist around behaving/communicating in a "socially acceptable" manner. Nobody needs to police what we say to each other face-to-face because there will be repercussions if you make a habit of saying regularly hateful things (esp. in a manner that's broadcast/audible by a large audience), but the same isn't true by default on a platform like Twitter.
How many times has some famous, or non-famous for that matter, person faced backlash because of something they said on social media? It's such a thing that there's an entire episode of Family Guy about it, where Brian gets cancelled and people stand outside his house telling him to kill himself for making a bad joke on Twitter.