While I have a Twitter account, I have no feed and no followers. I never check it, nor do I follow anyone. It's a place for dumb one line virtue signals and clapping back with more one liners. It's uninteresting. There are many other sites like the Daily Mail and Mediaite.com and the WSJ, whose stories have a robust comments section. How is Twitter's relaxation of rules going to make it any worse or more dangerous than the free for all on other media platforms? You'd think Hitler was about to rise from the dead and send us all to concentration camps with the rage over stupid Twitter.
Sadly, there are a lot of sheep on the planet that follow the crap on Twitter, Facebook etc.., so much so, they need this crap to influence how to vote and which way to put a facemask on etc . So unfortunately, it's the sheer number of bakes in society they fuel the likes of Twitter. I've never had a Twitter account, never will.
I am sure the comments under any news site, including the Daily Mail, and definitely the Wall Street Journal, are going to be moderated for content. Try to post a comment on the WSJ site, calling for armed insurrection, and tell me how that goes. You cannot compare these sites to Twitter, because of the difference in scale, both of the number of comments-- and so the difficulty in evaluating them all-- as well as the number of people who might potentially read them. Believe me, I agree with you that Twitter seems to be mostly a waste of time. But many take it very seriously, even using it as their news site, as crazy as that is. But there is a member here, a Republican, who I like, overall, but who's told me that he trusts the opinions, and info, shared with him by his friends, over that in accredited news sources. With so many in the country who have a similar openness, to any ill-founded rumors, it should be obvious how this could be very detrimental to society. The confusion here, is due to our society, still, having inadequate laws, governing the internet. With other media-- radio, television-- there are rules of the road, and regulating agencies, to enforce those rules. But the internet is still the wild west, of each site deciding these things, for themselves. You may well think this is the way it should be: completely unlimited, free speech; or with each site deciding independently. But, from a pragmatic perspective, there clearly need to be at least some consistent rules, on that cyber highway.
