Serious response: Wouldn't that be good for Twitter to get rid of those people? It's like when Coinbase offered people a payout if you're not 100% onboard with there mission and told people to stop talking politics.
From Twitter's perspective, I'm figuring they see these people not as a political movement, but simply as a nest of trolls, who go around harassing people and inciting mobs and are thus poison to the network.
Yeah. There have been a few instances of this already. Not just trolls, but journalists, people discussing politics, etc. I feel like Twitter trying to bend over to appease the people who want to combat unpleasantness online will have more unintended consequences.
I think people who do this know what's coming. It achieves two things: it "burns their boats" on the way out of Twitter, quitting in the most irrevocable fashion, and points out the limitations of a pure free speech (except for exceptions decided by the supreme leader) approach.
So then twitter dies and something better takes it's place. I really don't see a way out of this. I mean if random people being mean is the issue what can they do? Other than start monitoring and censoring everything tweeted
Twitter is the greatest platform for people getting offended on behalf of other people. I bet these armchair warriors will tweet-spam those guys to death.
They're doing those people a favor. Hell, even Trump is better off doing fun things instead of spending his time spewing, and reading, the toxicity of Twitter
It is definitely a technical problem to solve, they foster this kind of behavior because of algo design to optimize add sales. Even just not having add sales would make internet a better place. Also, you can avoid all of the problems of OP on twitter by just unfollowing these kinds of people and consume content that's actually interesting not just a reaction to US local politics.
I really dont see how this can possibly work in Twitter's favor. Do they not understand that Twitter is comprised pretty much completely of people sarcastically poking and harassing each other?
I get what you are saying, but let’s cut it out with the ethical, free speech and other aspects of the Twitter dilemma. Leaving or staying is the same virtue signaling that most people were fighting against during the last few years.
PG likes to do that as much as any other person. I recall a random tweet telling something like “all smart people I know are moving their wealth from bitcoin to ethereum”. This is crying for attention, unfit for such an accomplished person and this great website.
Yes, I have to think most of these people are Twitter converts looking for something to get worked up over. Because it's definitely not a bunch of people who understand what they're saying.
It would be like boycotting email because the guy who happened to write the protocol also runs a mail server and sells accounts to government entities.
Sounds like a good way to get rid of low quality accounts. It doesn't get much more pathetic than paying $8 for the chance to troll and knock furniture over as you exit Twitter in a huff.
Thus you are proposing that the most literate people (i.e., those that would be offended by such ridiculous handholding) leave Twitter and Facebook? Do you think this would contribute to "fix the problem"?
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