Who Could Have Foreseen?

On the face if it, its silly that Twitter blocked David Neiwert's account. But...

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE SAID WOULD HAPPEN!!!

Please don't misunderstand me, I really like David's writing. But we told all y'all over and over and over again that there was no way for Twitter (or Facebook or YouTube or...) to make nuanced judgments at scale about who/what should be blocked, that calling for certain content to be blocked would inevitably lead to other stuff getting swept up as well, and that it would be better to just forget the whole thing.

So you will find my sympathies somewhat reduced when what has come to pass is exactly what we predicted would come to pass. Innocuous content getting blocked is a known side-effect of content moderation regimes, regimes which I expect that a lot of the people carping about David's treatment actively support.

So maybe now that the "wrong people" are getting caught up in it we can all just step back and reconsider then entire concept, yes?