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free_speechI get an idea which I think suits very well as a topic to this community and I'd like to lay it down for open discussion.
How are your opinions on (actually) anonymous and (technically) non-verifiable Twitter accounts being able to lead to you getting fired from your job or your public image being able to turned into ruin, if some really picked up your scent?
I mean, first and foremost, Twitter is part of the internet, if it is and how much it is reality is questionable - you see that on troll and propaganda accounts being active on that platform too and being periodically discovered as well as deleted. And these accounts barely tend to look like this very obviously, often they try to look like accounts of real people, but in the end they more operate like bots, and post and repost content that is intended to point out extremely one-sided viewpoints or instil downright quarrel.
So, if there are randomly accounts popping up accusing a person of whatever misbehavior in the past, or insulting you on your own tweets, or flooding you with reproaches of whatever evil person you are for voicing a certain viewpoint that these (anonymous) accounts disapprove of - actually, technically, there's relatively few ground to substantiate these claims and reproaches with anything real in a provable manner right on the spot.
And still it is an increasing phenomenon that this (factually) empty bubble becomes the subject of reasoning severe real life decisions against a person if someone disapproved anything the person voiced or did there or did in real life.
Which, on the quiet, gives Twitter, as a platform, the reputation as a symbol of mob mentality and denunciation platform, circumventing the rule of law and professional prosecution in advance.
Because of this ridiculousness of the basic substance of it (if you think deeper about it) that is being used for partly very sharp real life consequences, I put this to open discussion here - 'cause it marks a meanwhile not undecisive point in one's personal possibilities for practicing free speech.
How are your opinions on (actually) anonymous and (technically) non-verifiable Twitter accounts being able to lead to you getting fired from your job or your public image being able to turned into ruin, if some really picked up your scent?
I mean, first and foremost, Twitter is part of the internet, if it is and how much it is reality is questionable - you see that on troll and propaganda accounts being active on that platform too and being periodically discovered as well as deleted. And these accounts barely tend to look like this very obviously, often they try to look like accounts of real people, but in the end they more operate like bots, and post and repost content that is intended to point out extremely one-sided viewpoints or instil downright quarrel.
So, if there are randomly accounts popping up accusing a person of whatever misbehavior in the past, or insulting you on your own tweets, or flooding you with reproaches of whatever evil person you are for voicing a certain viewpoint that these (anonymous) accounts disapprove of - actually, technically, there's relatively few ground to substantiate these claims and reproaches with anything real in a provable manner right on the spot.
And still it is an increasing phenomenon that this (factually) empty bubble becomes the subject of reasoning severe real life decisions against a person if someone disapproved anything the person voiced or did there or did in real life.
Which, on the quiet, gives Twitter, as a platform, the reputation as a symbol of mob mentality and denunciation platform, circumventing the rule of law and professional prosecution in advance.
Because of this ridiculousness of the basic substance of it (if you think deeper about it) that is being used for partly very sharp real life consequences, I put this to open discussion here - 'cause it marks a meanwhile not undecisive point in one's personal possibilities for practicing free speech.
