Opinion mining of Persian Twitter users on the controversy that arose
After the publication of a group photo of employees of one of Digikala's offices in which some of them were unveiled, a similar photo of Taaghche's workplace was published. Some publishers regarded this incident as an insult to Islamic values and ended their cooperation with this company. After a few days Taaghche issued a statement that itself also provoked varied reactions, and in the end Taaghche was filtered for about 24 hours. During this period the Taaghche app remained available to this platform's customers.These events occurred over a one-week to ten-day period and made Taaghche one of the hot topics of conversation among different camps. Data mining of Twitter users shows that the volume of positive and negative comments about Taaghche was almost equal.
The dominant approaches in negative comments about Taaghche included criticism of norm-breaking and disregard for values, Taaghche's and some other platforms' rentier dependence on the governing establishment, and overall criticism of the current that supports norm-breaking.
The dominant approaches in positive comments about Taaghche included criticism of pressure on the country's technology and startup ecosystem, the weakening of e-book platforms, and overall criticism of filtering.
In your view, what is an appropriate way of overseeing platforms while preserving the valid concerns of these two camps?
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian