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Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

He/she was not fired for fucking up the trump's account. It was his/her last day in twitter.

This is the sort of thing that can change that. Any holiday pay or extras that may have been owed to this employee might disappear, they could also have been fired immediately if twitter wanted to send a message and acted fast enough.

No matter how much they might be angry about it, they're not going to withhold money they legally owe to the employee. And besides, the check has already been printed at that point, and may have already been in the employee's hands, since many places legally require any back pay or unused vacation to be paid out on the final day and no later. Employers who try to screw with that typically only do so because they don't have lawyers or HR departments, and quickly learn why those are useful things for an employer to have.

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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This article shines light on the power bestowed upon Twitter employees. They can randomly deactivate one's account, and unless you're the president, you might not have any recourse. Particularly worrisome is the general left leaning political and social affiliation of such employees. We are an era of systemic censorship of right leaning speech by popular internet platforms. I'm personally center left, but in no way d…

There are literally nazis promoting themselves on twitter without censorship, so I disagree with your claim.

What about the literal communists? There’s just as many of those.

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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I frequently come across tweets by neo-nazis promoting their hateful ideas. We can't let this go on in the name of free speech.

Let's see how your logic extrapolates....

I frequently come across Socialists and Communists promoting their violent, hateful ideas. We can't let this go on in the name of free speech. After all, Communism murdered over a hundred million people in the 20th century. All Socialist and Communist propaganda - including all images of Mao, Che Guevara and the hammer & sickle - must be banned from all platforms, to avoid the promotion of a hateful, murderous ideology.

Why would we limit the censorship to just National Socialism, when it was only one quadrant of the vast Statism genocide - involving the murder of hundreds of millions of people in total - in the 20th century that spanned dozens of nations?

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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In addition to creating what is likely to be an epic shitstorm for Twitter ops/sec/PR employees and leadership, the net result of this will just be further fuel for those who see tech giants as censors of political speech, as well as embolden those who wish to further regulate these companies. A pretty stupid move if you ask me.

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now that's FU money, because they'll need it. "Great resume. So, you were at Twitter. And you got fired for what exactly...?

He/she was not fired for fucking up the trump's account. It was his/her last day in twitter.

read the comment I replied to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15617061 he offered $10 to the next employee. My guess is that anyone who disables Trump's account because they can will be fired.

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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post #8

This article shines light on the power bestowed upon Twitter employees. They can randomly deactivate one's account, and unless you're the president, you might not have any recourse. Particularly worrisome is the general left leaning political and social affiliation of such employees. We are an era of systemic censorship of right leaning speech by popular internet platforms. I'm personally center left, but in no way d…

There are literally nazis promoting themselves on twitter without censorship, so I disagree with your claim.

So "promoting themselves" is an action that should only allowed to a subset of people?

If so to whom and how to you identify those people?

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