I wrote this primarily because there is a category error in terms of how people think about Twitter, and how Twitter presents itself to the public. I didn’t spend as much time on the latter case because I don’t know that many people reading this work for Twitter.
If I had the opportunity to write an essay for Jack Dorsey I would basically say “hey, you’ve created a behavioral addiction and you need to manage it like you’re managing a behavioral addiction and not pretend it’s anything but that.”
You can say what you want about alcohol and tobacco, but at least they acknowledge they’re peddling an addictive vice. They at least encourage people to be responsible, even if it’s nearly an empty gesture. Twitter made their own addiction and they won’t cop to it. They’re making decisions in a way that attempts to shift the blame on to the people being banned and it’s sort of like Purdue Pharma telling people if they’re hooked on oxycodone, it’s entirely their own fault. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/opioid-manufacturer-purdue-pharma-pleads-guilty-fraud-and-kickback-conspiracies
Twitters decision making is flawed largely because they’re pretending they’re not a behavioral addiction that rewards antisocial behavior from their users.
I perhaps should have been harder on them here if I have an impression otherwise.
I wrote this primarily because there is a category error in terms of how people think about Twitter, and how Twitter presents itself to the public. I didn’t spend as much time on the latter case because I don’t know that many people reading this work for Twitter.
If I had the opportunity to write an essay for Jack Dorsey I would basically say “hey, you’ve created a behavioral addiction and you need to manage it like you’re managing a behavioral addiction and not pretend it’s anything but that.”
You can say what you want about alcohol and tobacco, but at least they acknowledge they’re peddling an addictive vice. They at least encourage people to be responsible, even if it’s nearly an empty gesture. Twitter made their own addiction and they won’t cop to it. They’re making decisions in a way that attempts to shift the blame on to the people being banned and it’s sort of like Purdue Pharma telling people if they’re hooked on oxycodone, it’s entirely their own fault. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/opioid-manufacturer-purdue-pharma-pleads-guilty-fraud-and-kickback-conspiracies
Twitters decision making is flawed largely because they’re pretending they’re not a behavioral addiction that rewards antisocial behavior from their users.
I perhaps should have been harder on them here if I have an impression otherwise.