1/ Hey @twitter,
Screenshots of tweets should be a TOS violation.
Doing so bypasses user-specified content preferences in a way that's almost always unhealthy for the ecosystem.
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2/ Example: Lots of fool-highlighting accounts use screenshots to avoid the direct engagement that comes from quoted tweets. But that cost is generally good friction.
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3/ But what about if they delete the offending post? Great! That's how it should work. Attenuating the signal of abusive content is desirable; AMPLIFICATION IS NOT!
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4/ Okay, what about for fact-checking? Tweet screenshots aren't verifiable. PROLIFERATION CREATES THE PHOTOSHOP SPOOFING VULNERABILITY. (P.S. If archival is important, use
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5/ Isn't classification hard? Maybe? The task is easy -- someone in computer vision 101 could pull it off. The expense is the challenge. But, you could run it as deferred post processing. Violations get auto-deleted with warnings.
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6/ I'm no innocent in this, either. I've used them. At this point, they've become so pervasive that they're no longer even perceived as a user-generated dark-pattern. But they obviously are.
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