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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:53:48 +0000

I don’t think it’s that each of the elements of what Twitter does won’t be recreated, but the essence of Twitter, the je ne sais quio won’t. Whatever you want to call it, the town square we all participate in. It will be recreated in the aggregate, but that won’t be the same.

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 04:18:37 +0000

> It is unfortunate that so many are willing (and able) to willfully delude themselves into denying reality.

Deny reality of what?

I don’t really understand the rest of your post, I guess your alleging they government violated the first amendment. Ok, what’s the next steps then?

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 03:34:36 +0000

>It is stunning to me that so many otherwise intelligent people do not see the problem with big tech colluding with government officials and intelligence agencies to brazenly attempt to distort and censor public discourse - especially right before an election.

You took a giant leap from maybe people at Twitter were acting with bias. You’d need a lot more information to justify this assertion, and who is saying this wouldnt be a problem? I al saying this didn’t happen, not it wouldn’t be a problemZ

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 03:04:34 +0000

> every sphere of culture.

Please clarify because absolutelutes are too easily disproven.

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 03:01:03 +0000

Yes exactly! They asked all the right questions then realized they didn’t have justification and it was a mistaken, apologize and I hope learned from the incident. And will react faster in the future. But this is the point. They made a mistake, fine but no one said “hey, I hate Trump, maybe we should keep this down”

Never make moderation mistakes can’t be the standard.

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 02:27:02 +0000

But your point is the point as to why it’s not hubris! they weren’t trying to censor anything, they were just trying to follow their own moderation policies. This I think is why the censorship story is such a non issue, because Twitter is not an exclusive source of this information.

New comment by mikkergp in "Twitter's Credit Rating Withdrawn by S&P on Lack of Information"

mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 02:18:53 +0000

What did Twitter do to S&P?

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 02:17:11 +0000

> 97%+ Twitter employee donations were to Democrats?

So what’s the principle here? What’s the plan. Which companies should have to disclose the political contributions of their employees and what should they do if it’s unbalanced at more than say 60-40, randomly fire employees until it’s back in line?

New comment by mikkergp in "Twitter exec says moving fast on moderation, as harmful content surges"

mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 02:06:44 +0000

Have they talked any further about releasing the algorithm? I know that was one of Musks goals

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 02:05:19 +0000

I saw that part and thought it was curious he glossed over it, I look forward to more detail in the future.

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:55:06 +0000

I didn’t read details about their apology, what makes you say that?

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:43:33 +0000

A day of deliberation is not a strong culture of censorship.

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:31:46 +0000

Pedophiles are bad period they’re a problem everywhere and it’s weird to try and make it partisan.

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:29:55 +0000

How long was she locked out for?

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:29:21 +0000

This part is weird, and it seems like there was an agreement between Musk and Matt not to smear Jack in this process. But if you really think there’s massive corruption at Twitter I don’t know how you think Jack should be absolved.

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:25:42 +0000

> . If Elon thinks this is some sort of big shock that will cause people to get excited.... I can't really see why.

I don’t think he does, I think he can literally see engagement falling in the days after a stunt and he’s trying to keep it up. Matt seemed to imply there would be another thread following this one so buckle up

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:22:16 +0000

I agree with you, and I’m surprised Matt glossed over it. I think the question for me as a more government trusting person is;

What is the difference between the government providing unique information, because of its potential Intelligence insights, and what is the government trying to get things taken down that are not against twitters policies

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:10:30 +0000

I mean, this is an event that lasted a day, they admitted their own mistakes, and they clearly deliberated over it. Like I agree with you in principal and could agree if they tried to keep it going, but they even said they should probably stop suppressing it because it was against their policies. They in fact seemed to not want to use their power.

So I guess, yeah, what do you propose gets done about it? What is the core principal here that should get applied equally across the political spectrum. If you misapply your moderation policies you should be hanged?

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:04:07 +0000

Here’s the thing thought. So far the emails show a team making a mistake, and being thoughtful about it. Trying to look to their moderation principals and disagreeing about the path forward. Then, later we know Jack and Yoel and most of the team apologized and admitted it was a mistake.

If these people were all conservatives and I saw this interaction I would say the same thing. So tell me a story about principals that apply universally that should make me more concerned.

> the hunter biden laptop story should have been a much bigger story.

Should it? This is the most Barbara Streisanded news story in history; There have been two years of investigations and nothing has come of it. Maybe it was just a nothingburger that also happened to have been handled by Twitter badly. Even Matt taibbi said that the suspression was a bigger story than the original article.

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mikkergp — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:57:50 +0000

Except so far none of the emails have talked about political allegiance, they’ve all talked about Twitter policies.