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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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
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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
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.
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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
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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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forthrighter
@forthrighter
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@Plinz
if edit is ever permitted, chances are good every tweet becomes a git changelog / wikipedia edit history I look forward to the creative edit fights where the *edit log* is polluted with ToS violating content while the tweet remains clean
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forthrighter
@forthrighter
then of course people can start posting fake screencaps of edit logs that aren't. The 21st century disinfo highway is gonna be a hell of a ride
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