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Twitter Plans To Remove 'Like' Button in a Bid To Improve the Quality of Debate, Report Says (telegraph.co.uk)
Twitter is planning to remove the ability to "like" tweets in a radical move that aims to improve the quality of debate on the social network, UK news outlet The Telegraph (paywalled) reports, citing CEO Jack Dorsey's comments at a recent company event. From the report: Founder Jack Dorsey last week admitted at a Twitter event that he was not a fan of the heart-shaped button and that it would be getting rid of it "soon." The feature was introduced in 2015 to replace "favourites," a star-shaped button that allowed people to bookmark tweets to read later. Update: In a statement, Twitter neither confirmed nor denied the report, adding that it was indeed in the process of rethinking "everything." It said, "As we've been saying for a while, we are rethinking everything about the service to ensure we are incentivizing healthy conversation, that includes the like button. We are in the early stages of the work and have no plans to share right now."
You are the product.
Exercise for the student: who are the users?
Check your premises.
What with today's censorship - mandated by the state, self-imposed, AI driven, whatever - and political correctness, perhaps it makes more sense to remove the ability to tweet, and only have buttons to like / dislike pre-approved tweets from "authorized authors"
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Complaining about people not liking their ideas whilst referring to people who he disagrees with as "NPC". Trying to dehumanize people he disagrees with.
Hypocrite much?
Every social media platform tries to eliminate the "like" button lately. You see, if there is a "like" button and no "dislike" button (which can be abused by the internet thought patrol to silence dissidents), all voices will be heard and most importantly their impact will be assessed (to a degree). Which isn't good if you are progressive CEO of a "hip" tech startup who believes in political bullying and the silencing of "non-progressive" voices.
The problem is that the "Like" button wasn't technically an "I appove" button, but a "keep me informed about the tweet" button. Thus people who wanted to stay informed, had to "like" something they might not approve of, e.g. a hurrican made landfall and a tweet about damages and evacuations was something you definitely wanted to know, but that doesn't mean you approve to the hurrican making landfall or the way evacuations were executed.
I'm wondering what the problem with the "like" button is?
Could it be that too many people are liking the "wrong" things?
Perhaps too many people are liking things that go against the political bent of the Twitter owners/management believe in?
Who knows. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the concept of Twitter and "quality of debate".
Twitter is not a place for debate, and in no way shape or form does quality of anything have anything to do with the place.
It is however, a fine place for intellectually or emotionally challenged individuals to spout off within the limitations of their ability. Any thing that comes in a nutshell belongs in one.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Hmm....it seems to me the radical statements like YOURS above, are a problem too....
It illustrates how there are fringes on BOTH sides. This is some of the first we've seen that is this egregious from the radical fringe 'right' side of the spectrum, but you do also need to acknowledge how much of this type of hate and violence has come from the radical and fringe 'left'...remember the shooting at the congressional baseball practice that almost kill Mr. Scalise? How about all the many ANTIFA and similar riots in cities and colleges in the western and northwestern US ?
Those were not a pretty picture, and also the suppression of conservative speakers on college campuses by threats of violence/rioting from those on the left?
There are no clean hands on the extremes of either political spectrum.
I think most normal level headed folks condemn those acts.
I think politicians on BOTH sides need to condemn this and call for order on both sides.
I will admit, I'm a bit perplexed by Waters and other democrat elected officials have been calling for active intrusions and confrontation of any of those public officials on the right tho.....THAT is something that needs to be shut down immediately, and I'm surprised this has not happened from the leaders of the Dem side.
Protest and demonstrations of your views and disagreements are part of the US, but any violent act or intrusions on the rights and lives of those you disagree with have NO place in our society.
So, please.....try to take your blinders off, and see the truth out there. MSNBC spews out as much vitriol and misinformation as Fox does.
There's plenty of flavors of Kool-Aid out there, and it appears you are heavily sipping from one of them too, just as much as those you are speaking about on the other side.
Remember, when you point at someone, you have 3 fingers pointing back at you.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
I'm wondering what the problem with the "like" button is?
Could it be that too many people are liking the "wrong" things?
Wow this is the finest example of narcissistic victim mentality I've ever seen.
Here's a free clue: not everything that happens is about oppressing you.
The like button is crap and always has been. It means everything from "I agree", to "I like the sentiment" to "I'm glad you pasted that" to "hello I'm here like me back". And it's counted so people go fishing for likes because more is betterbetter. It's a toxic shit pile and always had been.
But no in your perpetually aggrieved brain it had to be about you because despite having control of all 3 branches of the government and the most popular media channel by a wide margin you're being oppressed because not everyone agreed with your side.
Get over yourself and pray you never see any actual oppression because if this is how you respond to winning then actual oppression will break you completely.
SJW n. One who posts facts.