That's like saying, "Look, only a tiny minority of black people are shot by the cops, there's nothing to fear." Statistically it may be a tiny percentage, but it happens enough that everyone is on guard.
-
And if we actually gave weight to the complex, competing interests and concerns that make up this issue, we could enjoy a much more robust conversation. Reflexively blaming "censorship" is itself an example of succumbing to orthodoxy.
I created a bot that retweets random stuff from a few lists I follow. At one point, it retweeted something offensive, and someone actually took it upon themselves to contact *my boss.* About a tweet that I didn’t write, and in fact hadn’t yet even seen.
-
-
I’ve had people try to go to my boss based on tweets and I have had people threaten me as recently as yesterday and STILL the weight of the evidence shows that the “censorship” explanation for people feeling silenced is without merit.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I strongly suspect that whether someone will try to ruin your life is less a function of how controversial you are on average than the size of your following, and non-public figures w/ >~10k followers actually underestimate the risk posed by their outlier beliefs
-
Yes, the more people who follow you, generally speaking, the more people there are that can take offense to or misinterpret your argument. I agree that more people are perceiving threats because of phenomena like these, but like you said it’s not a function of controversy.
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.