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<body>
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<div class="message-content">
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<div class="trix-content">
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<div>
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With Twitter under new ownership, it's a great time for us to imagine
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how this hellscape might actually get fixed. And by fixed, I mean be a
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place where people enjoy hanging out, where the debate over content
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moderation is settled, and where Elon Musk might make his money back.
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Easy peasy then!<br /><br />To start, here's my fundamental premise:
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The internet is full of the bland, the wonderful, the obscure, the
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sacrilegious, the offensive, the infuriating, and the nasty. The
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internet, as a whole, is governed by local laws on speech, not by a
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council of global content moderators, not by single individuals. This
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is a feature not a bug.<br /><br />An American can sue another
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American under US defamation laws for stuff posted on the internet.
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But the Thai government won't get an American extradited under its
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lèse-majesté laws if that person offends the country's monarch on the
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internet. Restrictions on speech are based on jurisdictions (and
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Twitter is thankfully liable in one of most liberal speech
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jurisdictions around). This is also a feature not a bug.<br /><br />Twitter
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should embrace these features, and accept its role as a fundamental
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protocol. Just like HTTP, just like SMTP, just like FTP. All protocols
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that can be used to transmit all sorts of disagreeable content, but
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where the moderation of said content is left to individuals, not some
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all-knowing overlords.<br /><br />This isn't possible today because
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Twitter shoves so much speech in front of you that you never asked to
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see. It allows strangers to invade popular threads with no protections
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available to the original author.<br /><br />You know that you can
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find the most vile, nasty shit on the internet if you search for the
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right words on Google. So most people just don't do that! They manage
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their own exposure by moderating their own behavior. This is again a
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feature, not a bug.<br /><br />This could be Twitter!<br /><br />If
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Twitter stopped shoving all this speech you never asked to see in
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front of you, there would be no need for an army of content
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moderators. The internet at large is not filtered through such an
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army, and it's all the better for it. Governments keep trying to
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impose such a filter, but so far only the most authoritarian regimes
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have succeeded (and up until a few minutes ago, there was broad
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consensus in the Western world that this was bad).<br /><br />This
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would mean that Twitter would have to change in a few fundamental
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ways:<br /><br />
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</div>
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<ol>
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<li>
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Only speech from people you've asked to follow should appear in your
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feed. If any of those people post something disagreeable to your
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tastes, you can moderate that content by unfollowing them.
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</li>
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<li>
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Authors should be deputized as content moderators of their own
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posts. Just like someone hosting a blog with comments on the
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internet is. You can either say you don't want comments at all, that
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comments need to be pre-approved, that you'll remove the bad ones,
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or that you'll just let it flow.
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</li>
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<li>
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All the promoted tweets that Twitter wants to showcase to the world
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should pass through a positive rather than negative editorial
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process. Meaning Twitter employees pick what they like to feature
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rather than ban what they don't.
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</li>
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</ol>
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<div>
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<br />Thus, like the internet at large, everyone gets to control the
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kind of speech they're exposed to. Different people will come to
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different conclusions on the kind speech they wish to be exposed to.
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This is the fundamental wisdom of the infamous Section 230 protection
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that has allowed the internet as we know it to exist.<br /><br />This
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curation should be something you can outsource to trusted delegates.
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Let me experience Twitter as a list of authors and threads maintained
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by someone I trust.<br /><br />It'll also mean, like the internet at
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large, that you'll be able to find Bad Words, Terrible Words, No Good
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Words, if you deliberately seek them out. Twitter will serve as a
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portal to this in the same way Google does. These words may be hurtful
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or harmful.<br /><br />But all the content moderators in the world
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couldn't put the utopia that a platform for hundreds of millions won't
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contain disagreeable speech together again. <br /><br />Accept that
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reality. Accept that the price we pay for an open, free internet is
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one which permits the darker sides of humanity. Lean on the local
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jurisdictions and laws, democratically controlled as they are, to
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police this reality. Like we've done with that beautiful bastard that
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is the internet.<br /><br />Let Twitter be free to ascend to sit
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amongst all the other fundamental protocols that constitutes the
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pantheon of the internet.<br /><br />You can do it, Mr Musk!
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</div>
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</div>
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