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fractalfalcon OP t1_ixq9b98 wrote

Reply to comment by UniversalMomentum in Polarization around climate change is growing on Twitter. Since COP21, engagement with climate sceptics has grown 4 times faster than pro-climate content. At the same time, criticism of the COP summits as a failure has grown 5-fold. by fractalfalcon

I think the denial of how impactful poorly regulated social media can be is part of the reason we ended up in a lot of the mess of the last ten years. Is Twitter the real world, no, of course not. But it can be remarkably influential in some areas and also remarkably damaging.

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soztech t1_ixqk2vr wrote

>poorly regulated social media

Because censoreship has always lead to great things!

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abaoabao2010 t1_ixqq5rz wrote

It actually has, and always will.

For example, peer review is essentially crowd censorship of shitposts, but specifically by people in the field. That's why papers that you can find are usually more reliable than random twitter posts.

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GiantRiverSquid t1_ixqqas0 wrote

I don't understand why more people don't just pull up their bootstraps and create their OWN social media platform.

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