Always Clarifying Advice: Take Pride in Your Work

Nilay Patel, on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman’s decision to boot racist jerk subreddits:

It’s so easy to get lost in the technical lawyer nonsense of 230 and free speech and on and on, but sometimes the answer is as simple as people looking at the thing they’ve made and deciding they would like to be more proud of it than they are.

That’s a clarifying way to look at these decisions. Simple question: is Jack Dorsey proud that Trump used Twitter to promote a video of an old white guy shouting “White power!” at Black Lives Matter protestors? Is anyone at Twitter proud of this? If you’re ashamed of it, why allow it?

★ Tuesday, 30 June 2020