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Does Twitter have a right to police their platform or not?
Companies shouldn't be regulated at all ever except when it comes to letting racists spout hate. Then they should be regulated into requiring that. Plus harassment and other bad behaviours.
It was only months ago that Lime and Bird were accused of racism and other discriminatory behavior due to the requirement that users have mobile phones to unlock the scooters. It was enough for them to develop cash-based access systems. Why is it acceptable for Twitter? Should I not be allowed to sign up on a public terminal and tweet without a mobile phone?
This is what I don't get. Twitter is a company, a social network which has its own internal rules. When you sign up, you accept the terms & conditions, now which requires that you have a valid phone number to use the platform. If this is not convenient for you, why should Twitter change? Why not just move on to other services? To me it seems like that people want to be part of the "community" and sign up on the platf…
It seems reasonable to me that Twitter can require a phone. Why doesn't that extend to other entities?
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This is slightly different though, twitter is silly and unnecessary - access to your money is not. During some of the recent shows highlighting issues with payday lending these sorts of strategic delays were mentioned in the light that they can cause irregularly paid workers to have problems actually getting money out of their paycheck - forcing them into more borrowing until they are able to clear their checks. Agai…
Eh. It is the primary communication mode for the current US president.
Linking pseudonyms from two different networks (in this case, Twitter and the phone system) together is a classic and serious privacy leak. It's far from clear exactly what information Twitter, in its longtime effort to combat spam, has already collected on its users. Throwing a phone number into the mix expands to range of activities that can be unambiguously tied to the same individual. Given that Twitter certainly…
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From an accounting perspective in this hypothetical scenario I believe that you would not be legally allowed to dip into the deposit money save for that recovered through bans. Which creates very perverse incentives.
Landlords are allowed to place received security deposits into interest bearing accounts.
When they first started, tweets were sent from your own phone as an SMS, weren't they?
They have been doing this for any account registered from a VPN or Tor. However, you can simply appeal the block and tell them you haven't tweeted and not broken any rules. They will send you an automated mail, offering to validate your phone number, or reply to the mail if your problem is not solved. Just reply to the mail. Unfortunately, processing the request takes anywhere between 10 minutes and 2 weeks; usually…
I made my own VPN with Algo[0] and host it on Digital Ocean. The IP is a Digital Ocean IP and therefore really hard to blacklist as a VPN. There is no way to tell if I am using a VPN and I regularly setup new accounts on Twitter (mostly shitpost accounts used for venting at products/companies that have wronged me), or novelty accounts that have a particular theme to them, etc
Created a new account yesterday (from Australia) and had the option for either email or phone number (went with email). Haven't since been asked for a phone number. Disclosure (haven't read the article, just responding to the title 'Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number')