best take today is definitely "twitter shutting down vine is racism"
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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B/c Twitter doesn't listen to its userbase! That's kinda expected by now it seems T_T.
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if they listened better they'd already have been acquired
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^This is what I'm basing their "abuse problem" on; apparently Disney wouldn't buy them b/c of abuse.
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there don't seem to be a lot of other buyers lining up either. over/under on a Trump acquisition??


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trump's broke, I hope thiel buys it
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there's a future where we reach some kind of weird singularity of Thiel, Trump, Breitbart and InfoWars
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