best take today is definitely "twitter shutting down vine is racism"
...them of or (strong form) actively stealing their platform for art from them
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I... don't see how at least the weak form is wrong, considering Twitter refuses to handle its abuse problem.
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uh assuming "the abuse problem" framing is even valid... "why is twitter shutting down vine instead of fixing abuse"...
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...is a nonsensical argument since "shutting down vine" is a proxy for laying off 10% of their workforce and "solving...
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...abuse" would require a large investment of resources. this argument makes some sense against new features/products...
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...but is completely incoherent in this case. I disagree that "solving abuse" is a valid framing though, in that there...
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...is no objective measure of The Bad Thing to eliminate. it is a tradeoff between censoriousness and openness. and even..
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...then it's *really* driven by prog politics, as evidenced by the makeup of the star chamber and the backlash that...
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...results on the rare occasion that an "abusive" left-aligned provocateur gets moderated
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