Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting
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#2Original title: "Exclusive: Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting" (5 characters too long).
Re: Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting
#3How do you "discourage someone from voting"? By telling him voting booths smell bad?
And why would something like that need to be censored?
(I am not American)
Re: Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting
#4How do you "discourage someone from voting"? By telling him voting booths smell bad? And why would something like that need to be censored? (I am not American)
The article says that the deleted accounts were telling Democratic men not to vote because they would “drown out the voice of women.”
The idea is to cast a large net so that maybe, just maybe, a small number of Democratic males would abstain. Especially in swing states, every single vote is extremely valuable to both parties.
Re: Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting
#5Original title: "Exclusive: Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting" (5 characters too long).
So the article isn’t exclusive? :(
Re: Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting
#6How do you "discourage someone from voting"? By telling him voting booths smell bad? And why would something like that need to be censored? (I am not American)
The article says that the deleted accounts were telling Democratic men not to vote because they would “drown out the voice of women.” The idea is to cast a large net so that maybe, just maybe, a small number of Democratic males would abstain. Especially in swing states, every single vote is extremely valuable to both parties.
I can't imagine a male (a real male) not voting because of that. Sounds like those comments were in jest.
Re: Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting
#7How do you "discourage someone from voting"? By telling him voting booths smell bad? And why would something like that need to be censored? (I am not American)
The article says that the deleted accounts were telling Democratic men not to vote because they would “drown out the voice of women.” The idea is to cast a large net so that maybe, just maybe, a small number of Democratic males would abstain. Especially in swing states, every single vote is extremely valuable to both parties.
That sounds ridiculous.
I also don't live in the US, but in my country we are encouraged to not vote or "vote blank" if we don't agree with any of the parties. It's a way of expressing your displeasure with all of the parties up for election.
Re: Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting
#8How do you "discourage someone from voting"? By telling him voting booths smell bad? And why would something like that need to be censored? (I am not American)
Well, one example would be threatening people either directly or through violent public messaging. These are antisocial behaviors. Of the 10,000 words any human reads on any day, removing unnecessary negativity is an absolute virtue. This is the same reason we have spam filters. Would you consider Google to be censoring your email inbox? Wanting to force every human to see every other human's toxic dialogue is an invocation of Hanlon's Razor.
Not an American issue by the way, if your country happens to vote this is happening in your elections too.
Re: Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting
#9How do you "discourage someone from voting"? By telling him voting booths smell bad? And why would something like that need to be censored? (I am not American)
Well, one example would be threatening people either directly or through violent public messaging. These are antisocial behaviors. Of the 10,000 words any human reads on any day, removing unnecessary negativity is an absolute virtue. This is the same reason we have spam filters. Would you consider Google to be censoring your email inbox? Wanting to force every human to see every other human's toxic dialogue is an inv…
If people were being threatened with violence, I'm sure that would be the focus of this article. And I'm also sure they would've taken it up with the authorities.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, one example would be threatening people either directly or through violent public messaging. These are antisocial behaviors. Of the 10,000 words any human reads on any day, removing unnecessary negativity is an absolute virtue. This is the same reason we have spam filters. Would you consider Google to be censoring your email inbox? Wanting to force every human to see every other human's toxic dialogue is an inv…
If people were being threatened with violence, I'm sure that would be the focus of this article. And I'm also sure they would've taken it up with the authorities.
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