People frustrated with the negative sides of Twitter sometimes ask me what they can do about it. Here's a thread with some ideas.
Whether you have 100 followers or a million, you can do something to help… 📢
My guide: https://t.co/ZyLacjbELV
UPDATE - Please join me in blocking on Twitter:
— Andrew Stroehlein (@astroehlein) February 9, 2020
\U0001f537 Fact deniers;
\U0001f537 Anonymous liars;
\U0001f537 Propagandists for abusive governments;
\U0001f537 Those using whataboutism;
\U0001f537 Those flinging hate;
\U0001f537 Those making straw man arguments;
\U0001f537 Nazis;
\U0001f537 Sealions;
\U0001f537 Nazi sealions.
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I’m worried that the celebration of Twitter’s intervention on fascist rhetoric-however too little and too late- directs us to desire tech companies enforcement of liberal and democratic procedures rather than towards an investigation of
how they’ve developed computational infrastructures which exceed the power of the nation state, are hollowing out our institutions for frictionless (see removing human contact) optimization and are insufficiently described by neoliberalism
What I’m trying to get at, is not just that Twitter’s decision allows us to see—in ways that have been obscured—how much control they have over content moderation—
but as @Elinor_Carmi points out “platforms don’t just moderate or filter “content”; they alter what registers to us and our social groups as “social” or as “experience.” https://t.co/GSByAOoDWg changed
I’m worried that the celebration of Twitter’s intervention on fascist rhetoric-however too little and too late- directs us to desire tech companies enforcement of liberal and democratic procedures rather than towards an investigation of
how they’ve developed computational infrastructures which exceed the power of the nation state, are hollowing out our institutions for frictionless (see removing human contact) optimization and are insufficiently described by neoliberalism
