If Twitter Loses the Like Button You Might Have to Develop an Actual Sense of Self Worth
LatestTwitter, the digital petri dish inhabited by screaming Nazis, racists, and misogynists who should be banned much faster than they actually are, is making steps to make the platform better… by reportedly removing the “like button.”
The Telegraph reports that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey admitted at an event recently that he didn’t like the button and wanted to get rid of it “soon” so as to inspire better “debate” on Twitter. How exactly that fosters better “debate” on a platform overflowing with hate speech is unclear to me, as is deciding to delete a button when Twitter could, perhaps, just crack down on disabling the accounts of future terrorists. Katie Notopoulos at Buzzfeed pointed out that the Telegraph’s reporting seems a little sketchy, adding that Buzzfeed attended an event with Twitter last week and the like button disappearing was never mentioned.