The new Twitter "quality filter" looks like an obvious pander to elite "power users" at the expense of regular users https://blog.twitter.com/2016/new-ways-to-control-your-experience-on-twitter …
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Replying to @mtracey
"Power users" of a certain disposition have long been demanding system-wide changes that redress their own peculiar complaints. They got it.
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Elite cadres already gesticulate for one another on Twitter at stultifying rates: now they'll be able to do so with even less interruption
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Begging for our benevolent, all-knowing tech overlords for protection from "abuse" is a disaster waiting to happen.
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"Abuse" is an ill-defined, highly fungible concept often appropriated for cynical purposes by malevolent actors. Thus the scare quotes.
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Entrusting the High Priests of Tech to unilaterally define what "abuse" means by way of hazy, secret algorithms = what could go wrong?
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Sorry, none of this necessitates buying into the bogus, paranoid, conspiratorial GG ethos.
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