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[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm not really concerned about open homophobia on Twitter. I just don't want them to pretend they're "LGBTQ+ friendly" while promoting homophobia and prohibiting important fact-based discussions from happening. I think the speech restrictions need to be narrowly tailored and more focused on threats of violence. I think it's probably impossible to roll back that which has made Twitter so cancerous though. It's just not a place for engaging in thoughtful nuanced dialogue. Jonathan Haidt gets into this in his recent article "WHY THE PAST 10 YEARS OF AMERICAN LIFE HAVE BEEN UNIQUELY STUPID".

[–]reluctant_commenter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's just not a place for engaging in thoughtful nuanced dialogue.

It does seem like Twitter, of all social media outlets, may be particularly bad in this regard just because there's such a limit on writing length. Almost all of my best experiences on Saidit-- discussions that I learned from, that changed my perspective, or that allowed me and a conversation partner to really open up with each other-- all involved much longer chunks of texts than... what... 140 chars is the limit? Amount/length of communication is often the "least common denominator" when it comes to communicating nuance.