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Twitter Asks For Help Fixing Its Toxicity Problem (engadget.com)
Engadget: Twitter has come under a lot of fire in recent years for issues ranging from not doing enough to stop harassment on its platform to allowing foreign actors to sow political discord. In the past, the company has tweaked its tools, giving individuals more options when it comes to controlling what they're exposed to online, as well as updated its guidelines a handful of times. But today, Twitter announced it's trying out another route -- asking people outside of the company to propose ways that it can promote healthy, open and civil conversations online. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted today that the company isn't proud of how some have taken advantage of its service, specifically calling out troll armies, misinformation campaigns and bots. And he added that Twitter has been accused of apathy, censorship and political bias as it has attempted to fix its problems.
You are talking about a platform which has a character limit and has many anonymous individuals and where people can post without thinking. Any one of those by itself can lead to problems. All three together? They all contribute in the same direction: emotion and insult over calm and careful discussion.
And “toxic” to the left and right on many social media sites.
Most social media suffers from that because the way they function are a popularity contest and you get more likes when being a cunt towards outside your group and being a decent human being.
But Twitter’s format are even worse because it is best suited for short snarky comments.
Want to get rid of the toxicity? Start by firing Anita Sarkeesian from Google's so-called “Trust and Safety Council.” Twitter's politically unbalanced, SJW-inspired suspensions and shadowbans are destroying Twitter shareholder value.
Clean your own house first. Then you can start worrying about the "toxicity" of others.
(What, no story about the outage?)
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And that's exactly the problem right there. Politically driving assholes trying to use their positions of power to suppresses view points they don't like.
After all, a clearly laid out TOS that get's evenly reinforced would solve 90% of your problems. But the moment when you begin to give an unaccoutable secretive group of enforces power over the rest of the platform you will eventually end up with some levels of abuse.
It's neither poetic nor hyperbolic. It's merely metaphorical, and it's been widely recognized as an appropriate way to use the word in conversation for decades longer than "leftist." Did you really not realize that you just actually complained about what you yourself were doing in the same very complaint? Are you really that fucking hypocritical? With a name like "civilwaradvocate" I'm sure that you're not. I'm sure that you're here to troll. So is everyone else watching, so get fucked, alright? Also, you used "awful" twice.