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Written by: Commentary Editing Room
2021-01-11 17:45
Last update date: 2021-01-11 17:45
After U.S. President Trump supporters broke into Congress, they blocked the accounts of Trump and his supporters on Twitter, Facebook and other social platforms because of the risk of inciting violence. Trump and his supporters subsequently switched to Parler and Gab. New social platforms such as, MeWe, etc. have triggered a great migration of users of online social platforms.
A large number of Trump supporters "transitioned" for several days. Social platform Gab added an average of 10,000 accounts per hour after Twitter blocked Trump, and the overall traffic increased by about 40%. New accounts on Saturday (9th) More than 500,000 registered.
Parler, who was the number one app download because of the Trump immigration wave, was banned and removed from app stores such as Google and Apple.
Many people think this is stifling the space for conservatives and Christians to speak, and this is a "digital massacre" against the right.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio criticized this as a move by the tech giants to please the left.
Those who support the ban believe that Trump's remarks are indeed suspected of inciting violence, which conforms to the review principles of most social platforms against hatred and violence.
The app store’s banning of apps due to a dispute over reviewing an account is also questioned whether it is reasonable.
These disputes reflect the fact that when there are loopholes in the network audit system, the network stratosphere has intensified, from information opposition to social platform disputes.
Parler platform interface
Platform selection is like a position expression
On the surface, all online platforms currently have mechanisms to censor politically sensitive, gore, violent, hateful, and false statements, but there is obviously no uniform standard for what constitutes "political sensitive" or "hateful" speech.
Content blocked by Twitter may be unharmed in Parler, and may even be popular with right-wing netizens.
Some users are therefore looking for space for speech on other platforms, such as the Trump account this time, or some accounts that have been permanently blocked on Weibo.
Users will also judge the standards and positions of the platform’s review system based on the aforementioned behaviors of the online platform, that is, what accounts to cancel and what posts to delete, and then choose the platform, which also promotes the result that users with the same position tend to gather on the same platform. .
From the past "information stratosphere" to today's "social platform stratosphere," the opposition and division of positions have become increasingly fierce, and it has also become a new trend of opposition in the virtual world.
Not only this Trump immigration incident, for example, when Hong Kong society was severely torn in 2019, more pro-government users such as policemen and supporters of the establishment have registered for Weibo online accounts, and mainland netizens with more similar positions and values are active. activity.
On the other hand, Weibo has been hailed as a "refugee camp" for pro-democracy people in the Mainland because it has blocked many comments and users on sensitive issues in the Mainland.
From users with different stances on the same social platform actively following or being pushed by algorithms of stratospheric information, to the recent tendency of users with the same stance to gather on the same social network platform and reject social platforms that are considered disagreeable. The diversified choices brought about by the development of the Internet have not deepened our communication and integration, but have helped people with different opinions to find platforms and build a stronger ideological fortress.
Toba (Youtube), founder and CEO of Gab
Is the network a wall or a window?
Today's Internet has given us more connections and more choices.
We can break the limitations of time and space through the convenience of contact to strengthen communication, but at the same time, we can also build a new ideological fortress of new ideologies regardless of nationality, race, or gender among multiple choices.
Perhaps the separation between us in the virtual world is more distant than in the real world.
How to crack the network stratosphere?
On the one hand, a more transparent and fair review system may prevent users from speculating on the personal position of the platform review, and try to avoid the platform becoming the image of a certain ideological home.
This is not only conducive to the expansion of users of the platform itself, but also conducive to breaking the formation of the platform's stratosphere.
Only when a platform is sufficiently diversified can we further talk about revising algorithms and breaking the stratosphere of information. This requires not only technical improvements, but also humanistic reflection and support.
Of course, in order to break the network stratosphere, in addition to the improvements in the algorithms and audits of the online social platforms, it is also necessary for Internet surfers to consciously express the embrace of multiple views.
Otherwise, those with different positions will continue to strengthen their own rationale and accumulate emotions in their respective stratospheres, which will only make the world tear apart rather than communion.
At the same time, how can immersion in homogenized expressions and opinions bring about the agitation of thoughts and provide a space for the truth to be debated and clearer?
What needs to be recognized is that the space for multiple discussions may make us feel uncomfortable when our views are attacked, but the thinking brought about by multiple discussions is more important than the psychological comfort of blindly seeking approval.
The development of network technology is precisely to break the limitations of time and space, and use optical fiber to open a window for us to see a wider world, rather than let us build a wall, talk to ourselves, and attack each other.
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