This is a massive step by Twitter. If implemented across the board, it could largely shut down many denialist accountspic.twitter.com/wLVGY1rD34
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- as to deleting your account: QT/replies directly feed into Twitter's algorithm and ultimately make money for the company. If you don't want to be part of that, the only measure that the company will actually care about is lost revenue, so deleting your account is logical
The Xkcd comic is wrong though, free speech is not only freedom from government interference and only vaguely related to the first amendment.
Its is 100% correct for Germany .
Thank you, Gideon, you are so goddamn right!! In Germany there are also people who compare this situation with Nazi Germany and I can't even write the words down how I feel for them.
Love this graphic!
It's, of course, a matter of degree but the cyber-mob “Wokeabteilung” does have similarities to SA, and so on. And yes, you're right, large private corporations are totalitarian tyrannies beyond democratic control, where the shareholders are the Stalinist commissars, so to speak.
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