We DO indeed have a massive free speech crisis in western culture, however a Twitter poll is probably the worst place to go for a balanced sampling of the overall society, perhaps especially on an issue like this one.
Twitter is likely to be very heavily stacked with morally-pompous, shouty lunatic…
We DO indeed have a massive free speech crisis in western culture, however a Twitter poll is probably the worst place to go for a balanced sampling of the overall society, perhaps especially on an issue like this one.
Twitter is likely to be very heavily stacked with morally-pompous, shouty lunatics. The format is built for people who just *need* to share their opinions with the world, constantly, so the user base is stacked toward higher traits of narcissism than the public baseline. Then you add in the fact that the legacy user base inherited by Elon (the one being polled in this case) have enjoyed Twitter mostly as a 'purist' lefty-liberal echo chamber for many years. So again, the deck is stacked toward the annoying-school-prefect attitudes that they think they know best, and should get to speak and decide on behalf of everyone. Of course a good chunk of them don't want Trump to speak — he says things they don't like, and he mocks moral pomposity quite remorselessly.
Such people annoy the heck out of most normal folk. They are NOT a majority. Not yet anyway. They just *seem* to be because they're the types that are most likely to grab the megaphones and starting screaming into them, and broadly speaking our media and political culture has allowed that for a number of years.
Yes, I came here to make that point too.
We DO indeed have a massive free speech crisis in western culture, however a Twitter poll is probably the worst place to go for a balanced sampling of the overall society, perhaps especially on an issue like this one.
Twitter is likely to be very heavily stacked with morally-pompous, shouty lunatics. The format is built for people who just *need* to share their opinions with the world, constantly, so the user base is stacked toward higher traits of narcissism than the public baseline. Then you add in the fact that the legacy user base inherited by Elon (the one being polled in this case) have enjoyed Twitter mostly as a 'purist' lefty-liberal echo chamber for many years. So again, the deck is stacked toward the annoying-school-prefect attitudes that they think they know best, and should get to speak and decide on behalf of everyone. Of course a good chunk of them don't want Trump to speak — he says things they don't like, and he mocks moral pomposity quite remorselessly.
Such people annoy the heck out of most normal folk. They are NOT a majority. Not yet anyway. They just *seem* to be because they're the types that are most likely to grab the megaphones and starting screaming into them, and broadly speaking our media and political culture has allowed that for a number of years.
Perfectly said, thank you!