Thread: Twitter.

Having concerns about free speech does not lead to being terrified.
Consider; there are two businesses in your community, in direct competition with each other. One business is not prepared to complete on price and service, but wants to be the sole supplier, in order that it may gouge customers. That business starts a campaign of lies to make the other businesses unpopular and unviable.

On this forum name and shame is not allowed, not because freedom of speech is stifled, because of the legal ramifications and costs. The owner of the platform is deemed to be the publisher of any comment on that platform and legally liable for those comments, even if the owner does not agree with said comment. It will be interesting to see how that plays out with the proposed changes coming to Twitter.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Having concerns about free speech does not lead to being terrified.
Consider; there are two businesses in your community, in direct competition with each other. One business is not prepared to complete on price and service, but wants to be the sole supplier, in order that it may gouge customers. That business starts a campaign of lies to make the other businesses unpopular and unviable.

On this forum name and shame is not allowed, not because freedom of speech is stifled, because of the legal ramifications and costs. The owner of the platform is deemed to be the publisher of any comment on that platform and legally liable for those comments, even if the owner does not agree with said comment. It will be interesting to see how that plays out with the proposed changes coming to Twitter.

Whatever happens on twitter there are still legal ramifications under Australian law that will offer redress for false acusations and statements for those affected by them.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Like its name, twitter is for well - twits.

And android phones are for androids.

I'm not on twitter and have no intention of either. However, I can't help but agree somewhat with Ian. It is mostly the young that have their faces buried in one device or another for a large part of the day. These are the demographic that believe too much of what is presented to them in this manner. They are also the perpetually offended. They will also tell you that they are the future, well, I don't hold a great deal of hope for the future if that's the case.

Which brings us to a subject that raises it's ugly head too often lately, that of teen suicide from social media bullying. How will twitter combat this scourge and still allow "free speech"?

As someone recently said.........and I think it may have been on here...........choosing to be offended by something on social media is like choosing to step in dog ****.

Originally Posted by trout1105

Whatever happens on twitter there are still legal ramifications under Australian law that will offer redress for false acusations and statements for those affected by them.

Redress if you can afford justice. If you tried suing any large company, they would bankrupt you, tying you up with legal fees, long before you got into court.

If Musk does what he says he wants to, removing bots, verifying people, and making the code opensource (or not secret etc), I might even consider having another look at the app. As for "disinformation" etc, I wouldn't mind the chance to take my own conclusions on issues, rather than have a piece of code do it for me.

Cheers,

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Redress if you can afford justice. If you tried suing any large company, they would bankrupt you, tying you up with legal fees, long before you got into court.

I am pretty certain that somebody like BHP is Not going to target me

Originally Posted by Saitch

Luckily, John Holmes isn't with us anymore!

..... Showing your age... - Again.