This would mean that Twitter would have to change in a few fundamental ways:
- Only speech from people you've asked to follow should appear in your feed. If any of those people post something disagreeable to your tastes, you can moderate that content by unfollowing them.
- Authors should be deputized as content moderators of their own posts. Just like someone hosting a blog with comments on the internet is. You can either say you don't want comments at all, that comments need to be pre-approved, that you'll remove the bad ones, or that you'll just let it flow.
- All the promoted tweets that Twitter wants to showcase to the world should pass through a positive rather than negative editorial process. Meaning Twitter employees pick what they like to feature rather than ban what they don't.
Agree with all of this. DHH always makes very clear points. Total moderation is impossible in a chaotic world.
Twitter should embrace these features, and accept its role as a fundamental protocol. Just like HTTP, just like SMTP, just like FTP. All protocols that can be used to transmit all sorts of disagreeable content, but where the moderation of said content is left to individuals, not some all-knowing overlords.
Also very much agree with this. Twitter should treated like a protocol. HTTP doesn't moderate content.