This is a bizarre comment for a journalist to make. “No, please let an opaque, highly centralized core of a dozen people or so make consequential and long impactful decisions on the public discourse for us with little transparency or accountability.”https://twitter.com/KurtWagner8/status/1028081116341620736 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
He is saying something else that after all this time Twitter seems to have a very light grasp on what has become a real problem
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Replying to @karaswisher @kimmaicutler
I’m not saying Twitter shouldn’t be transparent. These kinds of decisions are just long past due, and it feels like asking the public to weigh in is just another way to kick this problem down the road. This should have happened years ago.
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And maybe most importantly, how would the public actually “weigh in” in a productive way?
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You seem to want a final, ultimate decision on hate speech to be the product of all of this. I see the process (of public input, decision-making and transparency) as the ultimate product of this conflict.
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I guess it just feels like a cop out to me. It’s clear the current policies are insufficient, and I want twitter to take accountability more quickly. I’m not convinced public comment will accomplish that.
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This is how governance works. You create a process. You allow public input. You take it into account and make collective decisions on the basis of that input. Business journalists are generally not trained or practiced in understanding this, unlike govt reporters.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @KurtWagner8 and
But this is probably the weird medium or hybrid it’s going to ultimately end up at given that this country allowed a handful of private companies to monopolize (duopolize?) modern communications infrastructure.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @KurtWagner8 and
Furthermore, the US is the exception not the rule when it comes to hate speech. The US Supreme Court gives relatively strong First Amendment protections to hate speech compared to other countries (unfortunately).https://www.npr.org/2011/03/03/134239713/France-Isnt-The-Only-Country-To-Prohibit-Hate-Speech …
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Also, when people are mad that institutions produce incoherent or contradictory outcomes (whether that’s these companies or governments or other complex orgs), it’s usually because the body politic they govern has contradictory asks and hasn’t resolved it amongst itself...
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