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SmokeyHamster | 3 years ago

>My biggest issue with Twitter is the lack of moderation, theres SO much propaganda on there.

Yes and no. There's too little moderation in some areas and way too much in other areas.

If you follow conservative politics, someone can say something like "men are women are biologically different" and they'll have their account banned for a catch-all "hate speech" violation. Meanwhile, someone can say "Trump should be assassinated", and get thousands of retweets and no administrative action.

Case in point, Trump is still banned from Twitter for tweeting "go home in peace and love", yet Putin, the leader of a country we're currently in a proxy war against, still has a verified account.

Bottom line, Twitter is an irredeemable toxic cesspool full of both propaganda and massive censorship.

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gremlinsinc|3 years ago

I think there's actually value in keeping the propaganda but maybe flagging and delisting it. Hell, I think you shouldn't be able to delete either you can maybe add an addendum or follow up for an apology or something but when bad people like Trump and Putin have an easy platform like this it's possible at some point they're going to say the "quiet part" aloud.

Like someone live streaming a crime spree. When it's easier to self incriminate maybe more justice gets met, maybe not.

It's a two edged sword. The best way I think would be use ai to basically score people based on maybe a political compass like with an x and y score then you at least can know a bit about the history and motives of someone.

Plus this would make finding bots easier because if you examine 3 month intervals and someone is top left of political compass then from to bottom right in a wild swing then back to something else it's likely they're playing multiple voices to stir up shit.

Then all your comments have a color or badge representative of your ideals. Could also score things like empathy.

That way also you could have a vote tally that's by side and a unified score.

At least then you kinda know everyone's motives or leanings so you know what to expect. Like I know how convos are going to go when I talk to my right wing family why not normalize knowing how you relate to a perfect stranger based on previous interactions they've had.

Of course this could lead to a dystopian social credit system that would be horrible..

licebmi__at__|3 years ago

>If you follow conservative politics, someone can say something like "men are women are biologically different" and they'll have their account banned for a catch-all "hate speech" violation.

Weird, I see phrases like this and even some laced with actual hate speech all the time in twitter.

>Bottom line, Twitter is an irredeemable toxic cesspool full of both propaganda and massive censorship.

Damn right in this, they censor the silliest things, but allow even the propaganda that conservatives are censored in twitter.