Posted on 04/10/2015 9:02:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Twitter’s great advantage is its openness. Anyone can join a hashtag at any moment, or send a message to another user on the platform. The only thing that is required for their message to be seen is for others to be watching. Unless there is a breach of the terms of service, there is no top-down editorial control over messages, and no third party stands between a message and its intended recipient(s). Little wonder that activists in authoritarian countries are so enamoured with the platform.
Unfortunately, unrestricted free speech will always have its malcontents. Authoritarian activists using Twitter’s API have found a way to install themselves as de facto moderators for thousands of users. Twitter’s reputation for openness and free discourse may now be under threat.
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Several years ago I was invited to join Twitter. Within a matter of minutes, I had 50 ‘followers’, not one of whom I actually knew. I thought NO WAY and closed the account. I got a warning ‘if you close this account, you will never be able to access Twitter again’. I thought ‘that’s all good’. I don’t know why anyone would open themselves up to so many people knowing their every thought, but that’s the narcissism that pervades this once great country.
The progressives will eventually try to ban all forms of religious expression on the internet.
Okay. Create a blocking service that blocks every subscriber to both GG Autoblocker and Block Bot.
Ta-da!
So statist like living in a bubble, is this news?
I keep a Twitter account to get a heads up on USGS publications and issues as well as GSA, and various other group’s publications. It does save me some time. I very seldom post and never about politics. It is a handy way to gather information and trends when there are fast breaking issues. Searching on hashtags give an idea as to both sides as in #blacklivesmatter or #randpaul.
I have a twitter account but have only logged in twice. I have never posted and have only signed up to follow Rush.
My problem with twitter is the idea of having your off the cuff remarks recorded for all the world to see and recorded forever.
The printed word has the problem of being easily manipulated and edited to mean many things that the writer never intended.
Putting you spontaneous thoughts in print and publishing them the instant that they are put down is inherently dangerous.
People lose their jobs after tweeting something stupid in a heated moment.
With twitter there are “no backsies”
Where it gets ugly is when leftists at companies use it to see if you are on the "bad person" list, and use that info in their hiring/retention/have-as-a-vendor decisions about you. As apparently has happened.
Happens with all too much frequency on many websites because leftists feel that it is safe to act like this because they will not get called out on it.
We live in an age where contrary viewpoints can be treated like a criminal act.
Twitter is for twits And is their hangout. It’s an abandonded wall “beautified” with graffito scrawls.
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