#Deplatforming

Gwen Snyder is uncivil

gwensnyderPHL

One thing I want to make sure to go back and clarify/emphasize with this thread is the difference between strategic, careful engagement with Nazis as a means to an end,

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

BostonJoan

Just gonna leave this here. When we released the Alternative Influence Network report (@beccalew is the author), many were criticial of the humble recommendation that social media companies should review

Anna Spysz 🇺🇸🇵🇱

annaspies

My mother is not QAnon for 3 specific reasons:1. Her English isn't great2. She's older, and can barely use a smartphone, much less social media3. She had a European education,

nylah burton

yumcoconutmilk

A lot of your favorite leftist/radical/abolitionist accounts are actually extremely mean and quite harmful. And we’re all capable of causing harm, so that’s not what bothers me. What bothers me

Cory

corymassimino

The "marketplace of ideas" is at best an extremely strained metaphor and at worst a completely misleading one. Arguably the key feature of the actual marketplace is completely absent in

Humean Being

MetaHumean

I've posted some scattered thoughts about "The Letter" here over the last day. I think my thoughts have settled now. Prepare for the One Correct Take... I'm on the side

Janis Wong

janiswong_

Look at all the (US) companies banning as soon as he's out of office when there is significantly less political reason to keep face...https://www.axios.com/platforms-social-media-ban-restrict-trump-d9e44f3c-8366-4ba9-a8a1-7f3114f920f1.h

Stephen McIntyre

ClimateAudit

unanticipated consequences: de-platforming of Trump by US social media is forcing other countries, especially other big countries, to assess penetration of their communications systems by US social media.https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1

Zaid Jilani

ZaidJilani

I'm more or less absolutist about free speech/deplatforming all that but the bigger problem with media and viewpoints is more about big swaths of the public just not being represented

Corbin K. Barthold

corbinkbarthold

Can we talk for a moment about this @WSJopinion piece by Philip Hamburger?The prof has name recognition, so they let him put his musings about Section 230 in their op

Lilian Edwards

lilianedwards

Thread. There's been rather a lot happening this week so perhaps I missed the discussion on the FB Oversight Board's first decided cases - if so please point me at

John Hayward

Doc_0

And yet he's losing advertisers under intense political pressure, because in these totalitarian times, some corporations are more concerned with political correctness than making money or increasing value for their

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glyph

The Discourse on the post-coup tech platform rejection of violent fascism is giving me hives so I just have to get my ~hot take~ in here.Sorry for the massive thread;

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

The historical precedents to get an idea of the amount of effort necessary to actually *attempt* to repudiate virulent racism and fascism, are American Reconstruction and the denazification of Germany.Hint:

annie

anniexlyons

tw: sexual assault and abusea thread containing some thoughts about burger records and how indie music spaces need to better protect survivors. 1/? i’m glad that burger records is shutting

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

BostonJoan

I wrote this awhile ago, but it helps make sense of why content moderation is largely focused on mainstream platforms. There are other opportunities for moderation across the tech stack,

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