And then everything changed when it became that much more popular and anybody and everybody in the advent of trolls, bots and Faceless accounts surfaced, it started to take a very different shape. And eventually where it stands today is that there are instances where fake news is propagated via Twitter. Admitted that a large population does not consume Twitter, but it does make for awareness, it does make for reference to context. And people actually revisit and say, hey, somebody said this
And Elon Musk himself called out that he doesn't want the public square to fragment into a left bubble and a right bubble, so to speak, and then not be a common ground in a place, if that is the goal. To kind of heal the divide, so to speak, and have a commonplace for conversation that's ali about in itself. Very hard to achieve, though. And the reason it is hard to achieve is simply because of the way these platforms are incentivized
Yesterday I heard someone say something along the lines of the purpose of law is to either create a structure or systematize morality that has not been internalized. And I think that what we're seeing is a lot of growing pains. Before the internet our concepts of empathy or responsibility with respect to our words had certain contexts and certain understandings, right?
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 2:25
Anyway, so that's my take on it, which is on the flip side of that, since there isn't anything in place to hold these outlets who label themselves as news and I'm only speaking to the ones that say we are a news resource, not gossip columnist or opinion columnist or anything like that, or opinion journalism. I'm talking about factual news. ABC, CBS, MSNBC, so on and so forth
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 5:00
Or a call booking link, other Twitter. As a creator, I will prefer Twitter. So I think Musk is going to do more of that than the other stuff where Gblog and Banhole, he will also do that. But focus will be on the product because he is a capitalist. Right? He is a capitalist. And we would do well to remember that when we discussed a lot of what his distractionary
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 0:59
Oh, absolutely. If Twitter were to shut down today, life would still continue and the sun swell still rise. I do, though, wonder, if Twitter were to be shut down, what are the alternatives that fill the gap or the void that the exit of Twitter will bring about? What are the two or three things that one can do to be as visible to as large an audience as Twitter is today?
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 2:02
Absolutely agree on that and I also think sometimes that when there is a rule of law it is also important that the rule by sheer definition rule of law is applicable to everyone in the land irrespective of what your belief system are or what you practice at home cannot be above the rule of the law outside. And so as much as you internalize it you have to go by the law of the land. That is the obvious
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 1:49
You know, jail. As long as the corporations fund news media outlets, it's unlikely we'll ever get a neutral, unbiased point of view. Essentially, my take on it is one should present both sides of the story and then let the audience decide which one to pursue or follow a belief. Fortunately, right now, it's the age of pedaling the narrative, and that thought process comes from who owns the company, and those are the people who fund for it
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 1:50
Because freedom of expression, insofar especially on social media sometimes is so out there and it really tests the definition of freedom of expression that you can't say anything and everything and the moment you introduce that clause you can't say anything and everything. That defeats the purpose of absolute freedom of expression. So the question to think about right now are we in a society which can handle an absolute freedom of expression or do we need a regulated freedom of expression?
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 2:48
Yeah. So the thing with freedom of expression is it is a fundamental right. Yes, but then it is also something that across democracies in the world, freedom of expression will have exceptions legally in the Constitution is India has six of them. And if we violate any of these six principles of expression in real life, there are real world consequences where I forget that. I'll go and find out which IPC Dhara in India it is, I'll come back. Hold. Found it