"In short: if users don't prescribe to certain Twitter guidelines, **even on public sites other than Twitter**, they can kiss their blue check marks goodbye."https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/twitter-our-blue-check-marks-arent-just-about-verification/ …
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Verification should serve as an indicator of authenticity, not a gold sticker for good/popular behavior (as determined by Twitter employees in San Francisco) across the entire internet.
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Replying to @PalmerLuckey
This is pretty silly. If Twitter wants to gold star instead of verify, isn't that their right as a business, at least per libertarians ethos? Why do supposed libertarians practice hypocrisy as their gold standard?
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Five companies together control something like 97% of online social discourse in the western world. This “if you don’t like our railroad, build you own” isn’t tenable in the case of monopolies.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @PalmerLuckey
So Twitter made you say that? After all, they control the discourse, apparently. Facebook writes your posts? A monopoly is now five, not one? This is quite incoherent. It's not like these are ISPs with regional monopolies.
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Replying to @andersenc159753 @PalmerLuckey
Twitter employs thousands of contractors, any one of which can press a button and cut us off from all our followers. It would be idiotic to think that omnipresent threat doesn’t dampen discourse and enforce political conformity.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @PalmerLuckey
And Twitter is the only method for advertising/getting a message out? Do you take offense when Fox doesn't allow certain advertisements on their platform? Or any other channel? Radio stations? All platforms for communication must accept all messages regardless of their values?
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Social media is unlike a newspaper. People structure much of their lives around social media platforms. Banishment from Facebook or Snapchat is tantamount to banishment from parts of one’s real-life social circles and activities.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @PalmerLuckey
Again, that really only assumes that Twitter actually had a monopoly. Being banned from Twitter (which, this isn't a ban, they are switching from verification to endorsement) doesn't stop you from existing on Facebook, or an email chain. It's more like being kicked out of a bar.
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