"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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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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I believe free speech and open debate lead naturally to good ideas beating bad ones, and thus should be the default. What principles do you (and Chris) feel should guide social media companies’ curation policies?
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