8 tweets · November 2022 · 20 likes · 2 retweets · read on Twitter
I saw a critique about how this is compatible with free speech. Easy: in order to have accurate information, everything needs to be sayable, AND people need to be able to find and organize what they see. Free speech is a necessary pre-req to accurate info.
People who were genuinely trying to figure stuff out on twitter in the early days of covid got banned for claiming (or even positing) things that were at the time considered false by CDC/WHO, that later turned into CDC/WHO doctrine.
Part of the puzzle here is... identifying people's motives? truthseeking 🧐 genuinely reporting what you see, to try to figure out what's going on advancing a cause 🫡 you may lie or bullshit or palter, to get people to vote or whatever sowing discord 💩 whatever fucks shit up
But it's very common to see perspectives that don't match yours as lying/bullshitting (or cultural norms that don't match yours as defecting) People need, for their own sanity, to actually LEARN how to identify the differences.
Part of what's going on is confused concepts of authority. The CDC felt their authority was being questioned by people talking about how maybe they were wrong. And frankly, it was! But that's appropriate and inevitable in this era. Maintaining cred via suppression doesn't work!
Elon's seriously planning to reorganize twitter so that everyone is getting information they find meaningful, relevant, and valuable out of it
And as far as I can tell there are ways to approach this platform design puzzle that simultaneously allow for more convergence on that which we can converge on, while also supporting pockets of people to incubate weird ideas everyone else thinks are dumb, to find if they work.
And this is a pretty good start!