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Come on, if you didn't notice the unfounded insinuation that a former high-ranking corporate officer at Twitter was really a pedophile and the resultant fallout over the last 72 hours, then you are really not paying attention.


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It's a lot of trouble to go through to get people to forget you called some Thai firefighter a pedo on Twitter...

You certainly haven't been keeping up with Twitter culture if you think this.

The response you imagine somebody having to that alert: “oh wow, I’ve been mislead. I should reevaluate some of my thinking”

The response somebody actually has: “Twitter is part of the pedophile ring and also they’re watching me.”


You didn't see the twitter fire drama

Well, what are we to do rather than assume the worst about twitter employees' sexual proclivities ?

It's too late, damage has been done. Twitter is a mess.

I wish I was surprised at the pettiness that seeing Twitter clearly having some internal issue - the willingness of people who consider themselves adults to drink it up as hate fuel against the bad man they think switched "teams".

I completely agree, and we as a society need to learn how to live in a world where a single tweet by an semi-influential figure can cause such a shit storm. How liable are people for actions resulting from a tweet? If someone famous snaps a photo of you, calls you a pedofile, and throws it on Twitter, what are the consequences?

The mistake was to just not ignore anything what comes from twitter. Twitter is a pile of shit that mostly produces hate, don't see a reason to don't just ignore it.

Other than this freak occurrence, which was remedied immediately and publicly apologized-for, what else does Twitter do that makes you think they "care so little"?

Thanks for bringing that up. I had been unaware since I don't follow twitter much anymore. You are right that is amazingly vile.

They've likely learned a lot from that incident already.

No, Twitter isn't gonna "blow up" overnight. That's nonsense.


Twitter just now is showing it’s evil face? You really havent been on twitter much have you.

Twitter at this point is like watching a train wreck in real life. It's a spectacular shitshow you just can't look away from.

This thread reminded me why I spend zero time on the cesspool of misinformed hot takes that is Twitter

I think by now it's understood that the goings-on at Twitter are extraordinary and out of the norm.

Twitter has actually vowed to support pedos, as long as they don't talk about plans to hurt actual, particular children.

But the community of "MAPs" is protected by social media these days. Repeat the 13-50 statistic, though, and you're out (though the likes of "kill all white people" appears to be ok).


I wasn't aware that Twitter, or really anyone in 2017, had a Nazi problem.

They didn't watch it. The Twitterverse operates on mostly manufactured outrage. That's how things work now.
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