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How come Twitter is not is trouble for enabling (or being A loudspeaker for) people that riles up other people, fuels their fire and so on.

Trying to understand this from a ethics and philosophical perspective. Appreciate your comments.




People are constantly calling out Twitter and Jack Dorsey for the horrible aspects of the platform.


You know the answer, for the same reason Facebook wont be accountable or if you want to get political , the strident members of both parties, or some of the lunatics of the press. Yes, some people shit on them, but I dont see a deplatforming along the corner for the truly powerful.

I understand why Cloudflare wants to get rid of this hot potato right now, but it comes across as opportunistic and hypocritical.


Twitter does not have a single point of failure, a person who has done this kind of thing before.


I think they are and have been for quite some time. It seems to come up a lot. They've made some Terms of Service changes, and banned some people. I saw an article just today or yesterday criticizing them for their decision to handle right wing extremists differently from other terrorist groups.




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