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If they don't moderate Twitter properly, fairly, evenly, it could go the way of MLW 

Don't worry mike, it's not your fault.

What will happen is the same thing that happened when they brought in gender/minority preferences for government contracts. Many companies simply found a suitable woman/minority to take 1% of the company with all kinds of limitations on what they can do with their shares. Meanwhile some entrepreneurial women marketed themselves and ended up with 1% stakes in many companies who needed to bid on government. So expect to see the same few women showing up on many boards with decision making abilities informally or formally restricted because they will be getting paid well to satisfy a government quota and they know it. The law will do nothing but harm the cause for female representation on boards.

Your so called "preferences" were simply an attempt to balance things up after the actual population got tired of old white farts trying to control everything.

Because slander/libel is considered a remedy against falsehood which threatens or damages an individual or organization or their reputation.
You're still free to speak your mind, but if you can't prove what you say is true, then you're in trouble.
For example, the families in the Sandy Hook incident could sue Jones. Clinton could, as well.

Veteran conspiritard David Icke has long contended that the British royal family are actually 12-foot tall lizard people from outer space, disguised as humans to enslave our race. "If it's not true, why haven't they sued me?" he asks to anybody who questions the notion.   Generally, the answer to that is that jumping in the sewer to fight with rats just leaves you smelly and dirty, even if you kill the rats.

In the case of the Sandy Hook families, some of them are suing Jones. His lawyers have alternately argued that his stuff is too silly to be taken seriously, and that suing him would put a chill on journalism. At one point they even compared him to Woodward and Bernstein.  Whatever the case, these families might get some cash from him, but they won't get their lives back: they'll continue to be harassed by demented Jones listeners who are still convinced it's the truth regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit.

In the case of the pizza shop, Hillary didn't file a lawsuit against Jones, but the pizza shop did, after a deranged idiot showed up with a gun demanding to "free the children". Jones begrudgingly issued a retraction of his Comet Pizza theories to avoid being sued, but this doesn't really make up for the fact that, you know, a deranged idiot with a gun showed up at their store and threatened people. Thankfully nobody was hurt, but it could have easily turn out differently.

And what if there's nobody to sue?  At present there are more Comet Pizza style fake news items being circulated around, but instead of Alex Jones they're being put forward by "QAnon" and anonymous pranksters on 4chan and that sort of thing, and being circulated around Twitter and Facebook by morons, crazy-people, and gullible old-people. Who would you sue? Where would you even start? If they do track one of these malicious lies to some basement-dwelling, child-**** obsessed incel teenager and sue him, is getting $13.52 from his broke worthless ass going to make up for the damage done to your business?

I think the worry is bias. In one of the things I read, and maybe posted recently there was a thing about a reporter for the New  York Times who regularly tweeted things about whites which were pretty racist, although now she says, basically "I was joking!" If so she liked to joke like that over a long period of time. Someone retweeted her exact words but reversed the races and twitter blocked them almost immediately.

https://www.instyle.com/news/why-new-york-times-hire-sarah-jeong-labeled-racist

I only briefly looked into the Sarah Jeong situation, but the outrage didn't feel authentic to me.  I don't feel like this was "hey, this really hurts my feelings," I felt like it was more along the lines of "she is allowed to say that sort of thing yet I got banned for calling Leslie Jones a gorilla, this is totally unfair."  I feel like probably only the kind of people who are mad that they got banned for calling Leslie Jones a gorilla are genuinely upset that Sarah Jeong didn't get banned.

 -k

I would at least put a timeline on these things.  Say 10 years.  So old white dudes get use to having women on boards and realizing they're actually competent.

Something that never gets discussed in sunset clauses for these things.  They absolutely need to be temporary.  Management in my work team is about 50% women and the women are in more senior positions.  If we ever had gender quotas (we didn't) then we could consider phasing them out soon.

Don't use twitter and only know about it from what gets covered in the non-twitter media so I obviously missed that context.

Even then, they aren't really navigating what is fair and what isn't.  They are navigating what is perceived as fair and what isn't, so 'community standards' will decided.  At some point it will be fine to say "white people are lame" but not fine to say "black people are lame".  Certain types of people can't deal with that and say it's "unfair".  Maybe it is, or maybe it isn't but new tech media companies like Twitter aren't in business to decide on such things.  If people think Twitter is a trolling ground they won't go there.

What if they're not competent?

What if they're only appointed to boards because someone ordered them to find some woman to put there?

And what if they are competent but they aren't allowed in to the "old boys" club?

Of course not, but it could do a much better job of setting out clear, nonpartisan rules and enforcing them even evenhandedly.

Why should Twitter be nonpartisan? 

Sarah Jeong lashing out at the racist trolls who harass her, while possibly not a wise thing to do, does not equal a racist.  Considering the context of her posts might be a good idea. 

TimG is taking these posts out of context and calling her a racist....   the same strategy as many SJWs.

She SAYS that's what she was doing, but she was saying these things over a period of many months, before the tweets she provided to show how she was harassed, and well afterwards. I wonder if you'd be so accepting of the excuse if they were from a white guy saying the same sorts of things about Black or Chinese people.