Quote (Goomshill @ Jun 27 2019 10:46am)
Social media companies have long since realized that they can exploit their monopolies to suppress people with incremental and algorithmic censorship far more effectively than direct bans
If Trump and every Trump supporter were banned from Twitter, they'd hard break and prop up an alternative platform.
But keep slicing away by rigging search results, hiding comments, inserting labels, restricting features- and they can hope to drain their energy and exposure and silence them more than direct censorship could accomplish.
Its those dramatic bans and direct intervention that give people something to rally against. Steve Huffman directly edits comments critical of him and gets caught? A big shitstorm emerges.
Not the case for gradually ramping up the censorship pressure. There might be short term hostility, but what happens when T_D is still quarantined in a week from now? A month? Six months?
Its guerrilla tactics. Either someone will decide enough is enough and lead an anti-censorship crusade, like Trump with direct regulatory intervention, or the incremental and algorithmic rigging will add up
which is exactly why they need to voluntarily break away, and fast. but they wont, because they keep as individuals getting more and more fame and money.
so yeah, you're shilling for people who are getting rich as a result of what you're shilling for, that wont do what's best for their own ideology because they dont believe in it as much as their own slightly more filled pocket.
you want to stop the robot? start a movement to break away from twitter, rather than trying to micromanage their individual moves that they wont change anyways.
Tim Pool and co. make bank acting like they are watchdogs that have some sort of effect. meanwhile they're taking steak after steak from the robbers to sit and look fierce.
we need segregation, at the very least a valid competitor to Twitter that offers a censorship free platform, so that Twitter has to at least try and match. as is they're aren't exploiting a monopoly, they're just existing inside of it. why should they do anything but what they're doing? there's zero downside. and those most seemingly effected actually get more famous, and more money, asides from some long term bans like Alex Jones, of which he still made bank on patreon or w/e and his own site.