Woke Me When It's Over

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@SlackerInc

Rittersport, you’re talking about office niceties. I’m talking about a chilling effect that leads liberal writers and entertainers to feel constrained from piping up about the presumption of innocence and due process. Or the importance of being proportional: did you see how quickly Matt Damon changed his tune when the Twitter mob went after him for saying we shouldn’t treat a pat on the butt as being the same degree of offense as rape or child molestation? It was clear his career was in jeopardy if he didn’t “get right” on that issue.

@SlackerInc

Also, when you create a Twitter thread, assuming you don’t protect your tweets, it is not your “home” any more than a thread you create on this board is your home. You seriously need to get a clue if you don’t understand that. It’s even more ridiculous on Twitter, which is very close to unmoderated. No one has a right to tweet publicly and get only positive responses. If you don’t like that, don’t use Twitter.

…on the one hand you worry about the chilling effect of Twitter mobs going after Matt Damon, and on the other hand you think that Twitter is unmoderated and that if you can’t handle a few not-positive responses then Twitter is not the platform for you.

The whiplash I had from reading these two responses damn near took my head off. Why are you worried about the chilling effect? If Matt Damon can’t handle a few Twitter mobs he should just get off Twitter, problem solved is it not? Are we only chilling speech when the mobs are allegedly woke?