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No, I don't want child porn on my feed, in my library, or in my Google results.

Illegal material aside, if someone posts something on Twitter that really disturbs me, I can block them. Twitter could create custom filters and let people opt in to them, too. But I want my technology to empower me, not infantalize me with paternalistic "protections."

I'm all for moderated communities. It's important for people to be able to create and define communities with their own rules and norms. But Twitter should be the value-neutral technology on which those communities are built. Empower us to create the world we want, don't force your vision on us.

Unfortunately, I think they feel responsible for the content now that they are actively picking what we see in our algorithmic feeds. The algorithmic feed was the first step in disempowering their users, and it logically leads to increasing censorship.

>I think most really do want some level of curation. Do you want child porn on your feed? Endless ads for fake Viagra? Animal abuse?

>I cannot imagine a platform like Twitter being useful without some kind of curation. I realize that blocking the NYPost is an opinionated move in some ways.

Blocking NYPost is not curating the extreme content you state. Your argument is an attempt to imply that wanting the NYPost is akin to wanting the other.

Wouldn´t it be better to have two options when you log in to Twitter? Safe space Twitter and wild west Twitter. Then all sensitive people can log into a pink bubble and the rest of us can enjoy uncensored reality. Most people should realize that very few would choose the pink bubble. The line should be drawn at illegal content in the wild west Twitter.

You should trust other people to have the same ability as yourself to evaluate information.

Ironically, Twitter is already like this with follows and likes allowing people to construct their own bubbles.

    Wouldn´t it be better to have two options when 
    you log in to Twitter? Safe space Twitter and 
    wild west Twitter.

    Then all sensitive people can log into a pink 
    bubble and the rest of us can enjoy uncensored 
    reality. Most people should realize that very 
    few would choose the pink bubble.

Even the name would be... problematic. I think they would be more accurately named "sane Twitter" and "ram malicious conspiracy disinformation from suspect sources and fake Viagra ad Twitter."

I've not heard any claims of dissenting opinions censored by the mods here, but im sure its possible.