Unexamined as in, whenever serious questions came up of "wait, does this actually help free speech?," the most naïve answer always won.
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It's hard to think of a single case where Twitter's answer wasn't "allow everything, make it users' responsibility to block" —
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Even when it was very clear that this imposed unscalable burdens on individual users, silenced *their* speech, or created public risks.
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And Trump using Twitter was clearly far too exciting to leadership as well: "OMG we're right in the middle of the political process!"
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The "public interest" exemption was largely shaped post-facto, in the same way that the lack of a hate speech rule was.
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The fact is that this kind of speech drives traffic and press, and this counters investor concerns about lack of revenue.
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I have had to sit and *make* these tradeoffs, so please don't try to bullshit me by explaining how it's more complicated than we think.
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It is insanely complicated, one of the hardest things I've ever worked on, and I *still* know when I'm being bullshitted.
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Twitter chose to optimize for traffic at the expense of user experience. That's why GamerGate, that's why Trump, that's why Nazis.
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And Twitter's concept of itself as a "public forum" nonetheless shies away from the issues that every real public forum in the world sees.
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Also the “we’re all people” as a deflection instead of an admission of fault says clearly this is a closed issue for Twitter right now.
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Replying to @russellholly @yonatanzunger
Yes. His response is effectively: "All lives matter".
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