A New York Times op-ed calls on Twitter to “issue badges of status or of shame based on signals about how people actually use, or abuse, Twitter.”
In the article, titled “Twitter, It’s Time to End Your Anything-Goes Paradise,” author Farhad Manjoo pretends Twitter is a free-speech friendly platform, before calling on the company to give up this alleged support for the First Amendment.
“It’s time for Twitter to scrap one of its founding principles: the idea that it is an anything-goes paradise, where anyone who signs up for a voice on its platform is immediately and automatically given equal footing with everyone else, and where even the vilest, most hateful and antisocial behavior should be tolerated,” Manjoo declared.
“At the core of this problem is confusion over what kind of network Twitter should be. Twitter’s founders always talk about the service as a kind of public square, where everyone should be able to have a more or less unfettered voice,” he complains. Instead, Manjoo believes Twitter should adopt a system where some voices are more equal than others.
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