Twitter has LONG been known to have a bot problem, hell it's only gotten worse on ALL social media. This just seems like one way to stop people using bots to create a fake concensus behind their posts.
Instead of “credible” accounts creating fake consensus. You would solve the overwhelming majority of botting problems if you simpler put harder verification requirements on India and China alone. This is about control, not solutions.
That would fail in courts as despite credible evidence against them, they'll win on targeted discrimination. Something only the government can get away with....sometimes depending on party in charge.
That means rolling it out for all and, well, we ALL KNOW how lazy and let's be honest, dumb the general public can be so putting more verification steps in front of them will be a massive turn off.
You know whats funny? The assholes that freak out about covid and strong arming people to mask up and take the shot.. pretty much made people do ineffective things.
But at the same time get offended when trump tried to ban travel to/from china.. them saying its racist and ineffective lol.
Ok? To be honest China WOULD be better if it's population could use Twitter with it's community notes to talk to others past the firewall, probably why it's blocked by the government and the only thing getting through is VPNs and bot farms.
Twitter today (even though I still can't stand that level of public interaction daily) ain't like Tiktok where there are legitimate reasons to ban or block aspects of it.
This post is reaching...
Twitter has LONG been known to have a bot problem, hell it's only gotten worse on ALL social media. This just seems like one way to stop people using bots to create a fake concensus behind their posts.
Instead of “credible” accounts creating fake consensus. You would solve the overwhelming majority of botting problems if you simpler put harder verification requirements on India and China alone. This is about control, not solutions.
That would fail in courts as despite credible evidence against them, they'll win on targeted discrimination. Something only the government can get away with....sometimes depending on party in charge.
That means rolling it out for all and, well, we ALL KNOW how lazy and let's be honest, dumb the general public can be so putting more verification steps in front of them will be a massive turn off.
You know whats funny? The assholes that freak out about covid and strong arming people to mask up and take the shot.. pretty much made people do ineffective things.
But at the same time get offended when trump tried to ban travel to/from china.. them saying its racist and ineffective lol.
Ok? To be honest China WOULD be better if it's population could use Twitter with it's community notes to talk to others past the firewall, probably why it's blocked by the government and the only thing getting through is VPNs and bot farms.
Twitter today (even though I still can't stand that level of public interaction daily) ain't like Tiktok where there are legitimate reasons to ban or block aspects of it.