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twitter shouldn't have deletion but it should have "disendorsement" or similar - tweet gets grayed out, "i no longer stand by this" but is still available as part of the public conversational historical record

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zeynep tufekci

@zeynep

· May 2

Twitter day! There was a thread I got stuff wrong *two years ago*. Great actual scientists reached out convinced me. Led to great collaborations! I deleted to avoid spreading falsehoods, but later wished I’d kept record. TIL rando dude saved *screenshots* to try dunk on me.

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Joscha Bach

@Plinz

May 2

As long as you don’t pay creators for producing content, the content belongs to the creators, not the readers. Creators should be able to delete and edit however they want, readers are free to unfollow the creators if they don’t like their decisions.

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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this is a good idea in general but it's inconsistent with the QT feature. if tweets can be deletable and editable then QTs have to be modified to refer to a specific version of a tweet *at a specific time*, not to the current tweet

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

· Apr 11

when you quote an excerpt of a document in another document the author of the original document should not be able to edit their document in a way that changes the text in yours. that would be ridiculous. same with QTs and tweet editing

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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following and unfollowing doesn't play into it. if elon musk makes economically significant tweets then it's important for those tweets to be available to refer to as part of the public historical record even if i have no personal interest in following elon

Joscha Bach

@Plinz

May 2

If people base their decisions on someone’s tweets, they can record the tweet (as they often do)

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I don’t think that social problems that already have social solutions need technical solutions. Sometimes it’s better to give people the freedom to reveal their lack of integrity