I realize there’s plenty of other accounts saying awful things on Twitter, but if you know Wikipedia policy that sounds like a WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS argument. That would be an argument where the existence of something bad somewhere else is used to justify allowing something else bad to continue.
When it comes to cases where a person has a duty to treat people fairly, other stuff exists is a valid argument. Black people are jailed much more for drug use then white people is a valid argument to be made against a black person being jailed for drug use.
Do you think that Twitter doesn’t have such a duty to treat people with equal standards?
A tweet by the PotUS has large effects, the same tweet by me would have none. Should the tweets be equally judged by just the actual words, or equally judged by the effects they are likely to have?
When it comes to cases where a person has a duty to treat people fairly, other stuff exists is a valid argument. Black people are jailed much more for drug use then white people is a valid argument to be made against a black person being jailed for drug use.
Agree that case is a valid argument. More (but not perfectly) analogous to this situation would be if someone was arrested for drug use and said “hey, I know this other person that’s been using drugs way longer than I have and they haven’t been arrested, why are you arresting me why you should be arresting them for being the more egregious offenders?”
Do you think that Twitter doesn’t have such a duty to treat people with equal standards?
I’m not sure if you mean this in a normative or descriptive sense. In a normative sense, yes, and I would apply this to people and corporations.
In a descriptive sense, what incentives does Twitter have to treat people with equal standards? Being morally good? Will that make their shareholders and advertisers more money? Would the board of directors suggest it? Capitalism doesn’t necessarily optimize for the moral goodness of products.
There are ways to use capitalism to improve capitalism. There’s a lot of “Metcalfe’s law determinists.” Like “there is no alternative to this network because it’s the large network.” But any network is just a spot on a much larger canvas of possible networks, any number of which could make money and make it more morally.
Clubhouse isn’t a perfect example, but it does show that people are willing to use networks operating in different paradigms. Sure, Clubhouse didn’t stick the landing after it’s growth spike, but someone else could.
When it comes to cases where a person has a duty to treat people fairly, other stuff exists is a valid argument. Black people are jailed much more for drug use then white people is a valid argument to be made against a black person being jailed for drug use.
Do you think that Twitter doesn’t have such a duty to treat people with equal standards?
A tweet by the PotUS has large effects, the same tweet by me would have none. Should the tweets be equally judged by just the actual words, or equally judged by the effects they are likely to have?
What has that to do with what I wrote and whether WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS applies here?
It was a response to your final question about treating people with equal standards, drawing attention to the ambiguity of the concept.
Agree that case is a valid argument. More (but not perfectly) analogous to this situation would be if someone was arrested for drug use and said “hey, I know this other person that’s been using drugs way longer than I have and they haven’t been arrested, why are you arresting me why you should be arresting them for being the more egregious offenders?”
I’m not sure if you mean this in a normative or descriptive sense. In a normative sense, yes, and I would apply this to people and corporations.
In a descriptive sense, what incentives does Twitter have to treat people with equal standards? Being morally good? Will that make their shareholders and advertisers more money? Would the board of directors suggest it? Capitalism doesn’t necessarily optimize for the moral goodness of products.
There are ways to use capitalism to improve capitalism. There’s a lot of “Metcalfe’s law determinists.” Like “there is no alternative to this network because it’s the large network.” But any network is just a spot on a much larger canvas of possible networks, any number of which could make money and make it more morally.
Clubhouse isn’t a perfect example, but it does show that people are willing to use networks operating in different paradigms. Sure, Clubhouse didn’t stick the landing after it’s growth spike, but someone else could.