Twitter C/D

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lol

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>:-]

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he rly did delete his acct

still good people out there

is that an ilxor dude, sounds familiar

leon's ongoing harambe jokes are killing me

#WeAreTheLeft

Milo Yiannopoulos has been permabanned for organising the harassment of Leslie Jones,

https://samkriss.wordpress.com/2016/07/30/the-harambe-variations/

just followed two of my biggest likers because i am kind hearted

thx for the follow :)

lol

someone with the following bio liked one of my tweets today... o lord what have i done

Student at the University of Texas. State Director of Students for Concealed Carry. Proud to stand for economic freedom, peace, and the Bill of Rights!

found your people, congrats

just only realized how fractious the division between weird twitter and irony twitter has become.

feel like jonny sun is sort of a litmus test

which side of that is mike fossey on

noticing how dependent quality of my feed is on stuff our boy lagoon retweets into it.. i noticed a dramatic drop in quality recently few days, then checked and he hasn't tweeted in a week >:(

He's in the woods somewhere.

he'll be back sometime later this month

we're all anticipating it

jonmy sun is so bad

Animaldrums, like all the greats, transcends all division

Who is Glenn Fernet Branca on Twitter?

this is pretty good:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/a-honeypot-for-assholes-inside-twitters-10-year-failure-to-s?utm_term=.jeXpYmaDW#.tcX3PoBXG

uses the shaky grasp of harassment w/in the company as the thru line but it's an interesting business history as well

According to former employees, the external pressures — stagnant growth, media scrutiny, and constant personnel shifts — even created fissures in Twitter’s once rock-solid free speech defense. Shortly after news broke that Zelda Williams was leaving Twitter, Costolo was getting DMs and texts from Hollywood agents at firms like CAA, threatening to pull their high-profile celebrity clients off Twitter if Costolo didn’t stop harassment. Costolo scrambled, ordering teams to delete offending accounts and tweets. Weeks later, when a rash of beheading videos appeared, Costolo gave similar takedown orders, causing Twitter’s free speech advocates, Gabriel Stricker and Vijaya Gadde, to call an emergency policy meeting.

Inside the meeting, attended by Costolo, Stricker, Gadde, and product head Kevin Weil (now Instagram’s product lead) and first reported by BuzzFeed News, tensions rose as Costolo’s desire to build a more palatable network that was marketable and ultimately attractive to new users clashed with Stricker and Gadde’s desire for radically free expression.

“You really think we should have videos of people being murdered?” someone who attended the meeting recalls Costolo arguing, while Stricker reportedly compared Costolo’s takedown of undesirable content to deleting the Zapruder film after objections from the Kennedy family. Ultimately, the meeting ended with the group deciding to carve out policy exceptions to keep up grisly content for newsworthiness, according to one person present. Though Stricker and Gadde won, one source described a frustrated Costolo leaving in disagreement. “I think if you guys have your way the only people using Twitter will be ISIS and the ACLU,” Costolo said, according to this person.

imo you have a shaky concept of "free speech" if it's some absolutism that allows people to stifle others through noise, threats, and actionable harassment

your ability to speak freely is somewhat hampered by unrestricted death threats

that's just my take on it, though

I think the Silicon Valley idea of free speech is an interesting one because they go from advocating the value of free speech (yes, sure, that's good) to then insisting that all such speech must in principle be be allowed expression on their particular platform. they cannot abide the idea that certain constraints on speech often make such platforms better and more inviting to users because to create such constraints then guarantees that there might be other places that people go to express themselves. it's against their business model to put in place limits on speech, and not really any kind of ethical attachment to the principle. they can't really square the circle of "here everyone can express themselves freely" with the reality that this idea will inevitably silence others in that space.

it's like irc, if you are a channel operator you have an @ in front of your name and can do and say whatever you want

on twitter everyone has an @ so they can do or say whatever

*Updates /etc/motd*

http://io9.gizmodo.com/steven-universe-artist-quits-twitter-over-fan-harassmen-1785242762

This is one of those cases where I wonder why some people get on Twitter in the first place. I don't know what kind of harassment went on here and I definitely don't care about Steven Universe gem shipping but when you join Twitter and don't protect your tweets, to a degree, you are signing up to be a public figure. I don't understand how people don't get this in 2016.

the SV idea of free speech isn't interesting, it's stupid. It's an ignorant, ahistorical version of free expression that isn't even internally consistent.

back on the job folks sry for any inconvenience

never leave us again

sry bb

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/im-not-fired-i-quit-a-users-review-of-twitter-as-a-li-1785941662

accurate

some parts very in character, many parts accurate

why am i banned by @sarahjeong

"why am i banned by @x" is a common question. oh well!

sad!

lol that's a great article

i encounter ppl ive never interacted with who have me banned all the time, p sure im on some list

its rude imo

john podhoretz got bent out of shape over it, a mark in its favor

with intraleft factionalism as it is, i've been caught up in a few blocklists, yeah. i think the only person to have blocked me outright is john aravosis?

i was def on a list when i used twitter

anyway twitter is bad, so are pieces that read like a collection of tweets

twitter is actually good but as a white guy i can see how i may have a privileged view of it

nba twitter is p fun.

music twitter is not great, the convos seem to get lost and are hard to follow and fragmented. kInda sad cos that seems to be where everyone is talking now.

I am good at Twitter and I am nice and I'm on no block lists.

adding u to a blocklist

idek how i got on a blocklist except i like to start shit and tell truths