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Twitter Launches Invite-Only Communities to Compete With Facebook Groups
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I like twitter when watching a season finale of a show or a sports event. Communities could add to that.
I canceled my Twitter account. Never used it now saw the point of it.
Actually I must push back on this. I think that nowadays Facebook is much worse, with an important caveat: being very selective on Twitter. I unfollowed virtually all personal contacts, all news sources, all political figures, all gov't departments, all clickbaity stuff, and all the stuff that was overly negative. Now my twitter is mostly fitness individuals reviewers of stuff, a few positive book authors, Jocko Willinks, and David Goggins. The only true celebrity I follow is David Lynch because I am a sucker for everything Lynchan. The result? Most of what I read on twitter is positive stuff and I actually enjoy my 10 minutes on it. Sometimes I see the occasional political/immature tweet, but it's very, very rare.
On the other hand, facebook is mostly about people we know, and I can see that now most people either push bs news (on all sides, left, right, center), there is a lot of acrimony, or people that pretend that either their life is always beautiful or always awful.
Until AWS, GoDaddy, ICANN, etc., all eradicate your site. And Apple and Google ban your apps.
As I heard someone say the other day, “We have moved very far from the idea that people get to see whatever information they want to see.”
They cancelled a sitting President. If that doesn't scare the hell out of you then I don't know what will.
I can list quite a few, Carl Benjamin, Alex Jones, they've had mass banning of pro-life conservatives, Blue Check Mark watch was banned for pointing out the hypocrisy in Twitters bans. There's whole lists of people, just search on DuckDuckGo as Google censors their results quite heavily.
The fact that the Taliban and many fundamentalist Islamic groups are free to post on Twitter but not Trump says a lot.
I don't believe any US President should be banned from social media and it's a clear sign social media needs broken up and regulated. The Democrats won't do it as they are a part of the Silicon Valley cartel.
Twitter operates under the protections of Section 230 as a platform but behaves as a publisher, it's time they were either forced to behave as a fair platform or held liable like a publisher. Personally I think they should no longer be afforded Section 230 protections.
I can list quite a few, Carl Benjamin, Alex Jones, they've had mass banning of pro-life conservatives, Blue Check Mark watch was banned for pointing out the hypocrisy in Twitters bans. There's whole lists of people, just search on DuckDuckGo as Google censors their results quite heavily.
The fact that the Taliban and many fundamentalist Islamic groups are free to post on Twitter but not Trump says a lot.
I don't believe any US President should be banned from social media and it's a clear sign social media needs broken up and regulated. The Democrats won't do it as they are a part of the Silicon Valley cartel.
Twitter operates under the protections of Section 230 as a platform but behaves as a publisher, it's time they were either forced to behave as a fair platform or held liable like a publisher. Personally I think they should no longer be afforded Section 230 protections.
Twitter is a sewer.. and Communities will be the sewer tanks.. Ewww yuck..
Twitter enticed a mob to attack and kill in the name of "activism". It harbours terrorists and extremists. .. I thought both were a crime..
Terrorists and organisations promoting unrest do.. Including the toxic left.. they love it.. Have you taken a look.. its one big love fest..
What's your favourite go-to platform to have your posts censored and flagged, Twitter or Facebook?
Social media is like any drug. We use it and it empowers us to say what we >really< think. No matter the outcome. Humanity is doomed. I’m more convinced than ever we won’t make it another 100-years.
All of those people who were "canceled" agreed to the ToS when they signed up. They violated that ToS and were removed. Twitter is not required to platform anymore, nor should it be.
Just because someone is a sitting president that doesn't make them immune to spreading disinformation about a pandemic. That is down right dangerous and shouldn't be allowed. When you add all the lies about an election and wild conspiracies, that lead to a terrorist act against the capitol. They made the right call as far as I am concerned.
That sitting president was still able to make press releases. So he still had his communication. Sometimes outlets would cover them some times they wouldn't.
If you try to force a media outlet to cover everything a president says, it becomes no different than state sponsored media.
THAT should scare the hell out of you. Not a private (or public) company deciding what they will or won't allow on their platform. They agreed to the terms of the ToS, that is it .. end of story.
I lol at the "Silicon Valley cartel". Yes, a vast majority of tech companies are liberal leaning. Just like a majority of Americans are.
Don't like it ? Go start your own tech firm and see how hard it is to recruit quality people when you are right leaning.
Like em or not, smaller, self-moderated groups tend to fare better (i.e. spread more good things rather than hatred and propaganda) than the big global mess that Twitter is now. Facebook included. It's actually among the least toxic social sites I've visited.
Can you show me a single Taliban Twitter user with any significant following? I get that it can be frustrating for them to seemingly apply the rules selectively, but moderators can only do so much, and part of this is only going after the accounts with the most reach who are in violation. And Trump definitely was.
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I'm in a FAANG company. Entire team is right-leaning, and so is most of the department. They're not Trump supporters, cause that's a different thing; they're just right-leaning.
I rather a platform not cancel anyone so people can see all opinions. Rather have actual discussions than echo chambers creating extremes
Social media was once the best freedom of speech communication platform that ever existed. Now it’s in part a cesspit of moderated opinions and political ideological communication. This is just another step closer to that.
You might want to edit your post as it has messed up quoting and the answer to the quote.
It’s funny how modern American Republicans are obsessed with giving corporations as many rights and freedoms as possible (ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on political ads, lower taxes than working class people, sweetheart subsidies paid for by the average person)…. Until, of course, that freedom cuts in a direction that affects someone they support.
Twitter is a private company and can freely determine who is allowed within their square. Just like a comedy club or TV network — they aren’t required to let any politician say whatever they want via their company just because he or she is the current president. What a hilarious and ludicrous proposition.
This is true, but on the other hand, groups is the one reason I still use Facebook.
If Twitter can replace those groups for me, it's bye bye Facebook!
Say there was someone out there on Twitter or Facebook with a large following that was actively calling for violence and abuse against you and your loved ones.
That'd be cool, yes?