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Filtering can improve the signal-to-noise ratio dramatically. We have always had some moderation/editing on books, newspapers, scientific papers and many other forums of meaningful exchange for centuries, and we progressed just fine. I

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Except for when the church decided what’s culturally appropriate and what’s not. Eerily reminding of the content moderation teams in SV, isnt it?

Improving signal quality != fire walling signals as a whole.

Look, this started with a claim that Twitter moderation policies are blocking us from addressing climate change. Then a separate claim, that any sort of moderation is harmful, was made and I challenged it. Now you are coming with a third position, which is that sometimes moderation is indeed bad. Which is true, but the real question is whether current moderation practices in Twitter are blocking us from meaningful discussion, in particular in regards to climate change.

>the real question is whether current moderation practices in Twitter are blocking us from meaningful discussion

And that question is another one than "does twitter censor climate change-discussions?", right? My point was: yes, it does.

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