re: #108 Citizen K

I mean the problem doesn’t just seem to be that Twitter is taking too soft a hand with Nazis and the like. It’s that they seem to be actively coddling them and supporting them too. Twitter as a company seems to have far too many fellow travelers than is comfortable. Once again, at some point, it’s not laziness or fecklessness, but active complicity.

A lot of it is the libertarian position that much of white tech bro Silicon Valley culture operates from. There’s an endemic ideological tunnel vision that tends to equate freedom in the abstract with an absolutist tolerance of hateful and damaging supremacist ideologies. Compounding this is the fixation on automating everything, so when the toxicity becomes too much to ignore they try to find a way of coding it rather than admitting moderation needs to be done by people.