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Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Post by sAbakumoff »

flukus wrote: post #11
sAbakumoff wrote: post #9

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.

can you imagine the scale of shit storm that twitter will be hit with in this scenario? This individual is called "THE legend"[1], people praise him/her [2], [3].

[1] https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/926278000152154112

[2] https://twitter.com/winterjessica/status/926270231605055488

[3] https://twitter.com/pierce/status/926222729660862464

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Post by hkmurakami »

rb666 wrote: post #61
nodesocket wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely. I've been lucky enough to be self-employed for a bit, but if you walk into any bay area startup nearly everybody will be a vitriol against Trump and conservatives very publicly. It is not even subtle. I'm the kind of person who actually enjoys a debate, and my lack of PC offends some. If I were an employee, probably would be problematic.

Reason is that the political debate is no longer right vs left in the US. Trump and his posse have proven to be compulsive liars. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trump... This means there is little left to debate.

? The "appropriate" size and role of the federal government is still a very worthwhile and earnest point of debate, and that is a classic left/right issue.

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Post by sumedh »

te_chris wrote: post #56
sumedh wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So your solution is to shutdown the person who disagrees with you?

No, it’s to stop the flow of sewerage into the water supply. Stop pretending Trump is some sort of rational participant in a Gentleman’s debate.

Looks like you have not heard of this saying "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Post by ajuc »

stale2002 wrote: post #67
localhost3000 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“So-called nazis”, huh?

The group of people who literally self identify as Nazis is a very very small group. The group of people that get accused of being Nazis can span all the way up into the hundreds of millions (Ex: Many people call Trump a fascist, and therefore his X million supports would be fascist under these accusations)

Self-identification isn't the one true criterium. See "I'm not racist but ...".

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

nodesocket wrote: post #52
hkmurakami wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a series of articles a few years ago about closet GOP supporters in the tech industry fearing being "outed" for the damage it would cause to their careers. In your experience do you feel that this concern is justified? (I think there was at least one startup CEO who declared that if he found out that anyone at his company had voted for Trump, that he would fire him/her)

Absolutely. I've been lucky enough to be self-employed for a bit, but if you walk into any bay area startup nearly everybody will be a vitriol against Trump and conservatives very publicly. It is not even subtle. I'm the kind of person who actually enjoys a debate, and my lack of PC offends some. If I were an employee, probably would be problematic.

I find it interesting that people feel the need to defend Trump because he’s in “their team”. Can’t help but feel this is an effect of the two party system.

He’s objectively a problematic person as a leader but since there is no other conservative around now conservatives feel the need to clinch to him more than is healthy.

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Post by sneak »

mankash666 wrote: post #2

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…

No, this shines the light on the editorial control bestowed upon the owners of the twitter.com domain name (and any other domain name).

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Post by ThrustVectoring »

mattbillenstein wrote: post #5

$10 of my personal cash to the next Twitter employee to deactivate Trump's account.

Note that under the CFAA, deactivating Trump's twitter account without authorization can be prosecuted as a crime with a sentence of up to 5 years in prison.

So, uhh, might want to be careful there, buddy.

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

stale2002 wrote: post #67
localhost3000 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“So-called nazis”, huh?

The group of people who literally self identify as Nazis is a very very small group. The group of people that get accused of being Nazis can span all the way up into the hundreds of millions (Ex: Many people call Trump a fascist, and therefore his X million supports would be fascist under these accusations)

> The group of people who literally self identify as Nazis is a very very small group.

Luckily self-identification isn't the most reliable way to categorize things. A robin doesn't have to say "I am a robin" in order for you to say "Oh, look, a robin." It's not like suddenly thousands of years of development of classification systems doesn't exist anymore. The group of people who, whether they proclaim it or not, express white-supremacist, nationalist, and vitriolic views is unfortunately not that very small.

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