Karl wrote:It's all well and good saying "if we ignore the crackpots and fascists they won't get any attention and then they'll go away", but the last decade of political discourse would seem to empirically contradict that. If we can convince social media and networking apps/websites to pull crackpot &/ fascist content then that might generate a little bit of publicity for the pulled content short term, but long term it will mean fewer people will be exposed to that kind of propaganda via those platforms and that has to be a good thing.
I don’t know if that is aimed at me, but that is certainly not my position. If I owned or was in charge of Twitter then twats like Alex Jones would have been gone a long long time ago.
People like Alex Jones should be reported and complained about until sites like Twitter finally act against him. But it is for Twitter to decide (again as long as it is within the law) what they do and do not allow people to post. However much I might personally hate it.
Hopefully Twitter does come to it’s senses and gets rid of all the far right loons. But I don’t think they will while Trump is President, they would end up losing their best customer.