Yeah, they've made some really bonehead moves of late, which is partly why their stock's heading into the toilet. You know, things were a lot more interesting back in the day, before the advent of the GUI interface and the subsequent flood of total pansies, with their "triggers" and other crap.
Way back in the olden thymes, I would come back from the mammoth hunt and relax by dialing into a BBS and mixing it up with others about sports. Back then, you had to know how a modem worked, in addition to knowing how to write a bit of code. My first “home computer” was a VT220 terminal and Hayes smartmodem that “fell off a truck.” A friend set up an account at his university and provided a POP.
Back in those days, “internet culture” provided no moderation and little in the way of restraint. The social justice warriors of today would have all committed suicide if exposed to the culture of 1980’s internet content. It was almost all smart dudes with more confidence than good sense so the arguments quickly got nasty and personal. If you could not handle it, no one cared. You were probably a pussy anyway.
My first online work involved a bit more than that: the modem replaced your landline telephone handset, and output was on thermal printer. But that was before we got 300 baud modems, dot-matrix printers, or video displays (which came in two CRT flavors - green or orange, your choice).
It's a lot different today, of course, in terms of technology and ease of access. Today, any idiot can go online, and millions of them do. And therefore, they want "rules" so that their little feelings don't get bruised.
This is what is happening with Twitter. They created a “trust and safety council” to police the platform and get rid of the bad people. The creepy name is an artifact of our feminized age. Only women and homosexual males fret about trust and safety on-line. It also signals that it is more than just an attempt to ban ISIS terrorists and criminal gangs from the platform. The words “trust” and “safety” are now dog whistles for the maniacs on the Left.
Back in the day, I moderated some discussion forums as part of my work with Compuserve and GEnie, which for a while were major online presences. As jobs go, it sucked. But it was workable. Then the whack-a-doodles showed up, and things got worse. So I bunched it. And those platforms have largely gone away; replaced by others. Like Twitter, which is now repeating the mistakes of the past.
