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Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

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Re: Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

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Post by shripadk »

Magodo wrote: post #18

Clickbait. Actual reason cited was account security issues https://scroll.in/latest/964035/amuls-twitter-account-blocke...

Hahaha they always say that. Trust me Twitter India is the worst when it comes to censorship. They have been randomly suspending accounts and then reinstating them after uproar. This has been going on for a good 3 years. Nothing new for us here in India. All this crap about them being for "freedom of speech and expression" is just humbug. If there was any agency that kept a track of the number of times Twitter suspended a popular account and reinstated it after uproar then the real picture would come out into the open. And Twitter specifically targets right wing accounts. From suspensions to shadow banning. Everything is allowed. This has turned more and more people in India against such biased services. And it isn't helping Twitter or its cause in anyway. It is only causing more alienation. It is only reaffirming our beliefs that Twitter is not apolitical.

I don't see why Twitter has to do it? If it wants people to switch political affiliations then this is the worst way to go about it. I know Jack Dorsey admitted that he is a leftist and most employees in Twitter are leftists too [1]. That those employees who lean towards the right feel threatened to voice their opinions within Twitter. If that is the situation within the company then how can you expect it to not be biased when dealing with political issues on the platform? Surely those biases will permeate into decision making. And one can't blame algorithms always. I don't see leftist accounts being banned by Twitter no matter how much hate and abuse you find on such accounts. So it is not automation. This is definitely targeted.

[1]: Twitter is so liberal that its conservative employees ‘don’t feel safe to express their opinions,’ says CEO Jack Dorsey

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/14/17857622/twitter-liberal-emplo...

Re: Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

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Post by shripadk »

cma wrote: post #5

Seems to be a mistake, possibly automated: >On this post, Twitter messaged that your account is temporarily blocked. You are seeing this message because some unusual activity has occurred from this account.

It is not a mistake. Twitter has been censoring Right wing accounts in India for past 3 years. The modus operandi is to first suspend a popular account and when there is hue & cry reinstate the account citing some stupid policy reason. Twitter is the most politically biased social media outlet in existence today. No doubt about that.

Re: Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

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Post by abc-xyz »

Magodo wrote: post #18

Clickbait. Actual reason cited was account security issues https://scroll.in/latest/964035/amuls-twitter-account-blocke...

As per your article:

> “We have asked Twitter why it blocked our account,” Sodhi said. “We are waiting for the reply.”

Sounds like they suffered from more than a simple CAPTCHA before their login (in which case it also sounds absurd to publicly restrict the account).

Twitter says:

> “Safety and security of the accounts is a key priority for us and to ensure an account has not been compromised sometimes we require the account owner to complete a simple reCAPTCHA process,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. “These challenges are simple for authentic account owners to solve, but difficult [or costly] for spammy or malicious account owners to complete.”

This makes no sense. It's a ~9 year old verified account with 250k followers, operated by one of the largest companies in India, with no unusual tweet activity.

Re: Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

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Post by faned »

aplummer wrote: post #20
miked85 wrote: post #19

Up until now, many have been cheering Twitter bans and attacking FB for not doing the same since it aligned with their political views. This kind of behavior by tech giants is bad, regardless if you agree or not with who they are suspending or banning.

Maybe it’s good, maybe it’s bad. I think they are a private company with free speech, and people should just not use their products if they don’t like it.

Would you support changing laws to allow Twitter to ban black people from their platform?

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Post by threatofrain »

aplummer wrote: post #20
miked85 wrote: post #19

Up until now, many have been cheering Twitter bans and attacking FB for not doing the same since it aligned with their political views. This kind of behavior by tech giants is bad, regardless if you agree or not with who they are suspending or banning.

Maybe it’s good, maybe it’s bad. I think they are a private company with free speech, and people should just not use their products if they don’t like it.

Yes, I think if people want squares then it's time to think about funding. And is broadband now the road to this public square? If so, is there a problem that all these roads are basically toll roads owned by mega-corps?

Re: Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

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Post by almost_usual »

Magodo wrote: post #18

Clickbait. Actual reason cited was account security issues https://scroll.in/latest/964035/amuls-twitter-account-blocke...

Your account can be suspended if you don’t complete a reCAPTCHA?

I didn’t even know Twitter used reCAPTCHA which feels slightly controversial in itself.

Re: Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

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Post by thedudeabides5 »

tomschlick wrote: post #10
bedros wrote: post #9

Probably Chinese hackers trying to hack and get access to the account, so it was suspended

More likely is that China used many accounts to report it as violence or some other sensitive category. Automation would have taken it down at that point.

If so, would be the latest in a long and successful strategy of using the West’s language on offense and identity politics against our speech and media institutions.

And to be fair, we haven’t really figured out where we stand on this stuff.

Re: Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

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Post by renewiltord »

faned wrote: post #25
aplummer wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe it’s good, maybe it’s bad. I think they are a private company with free speech, and people should just not use their products if they don’t like it.

Would you support changing laws to allow Twitter to ban black people from their platform?

I think the constraints on these companies should be the same as in normal public discourse.

It is strange to me that I can talk to someone on the street about how I'm trying to minimize my consumption of Chinese goods and how this is worthwhile and no one would bat an eye but that that is somehow offensive online.

We can then decide if we want to regulate general public discourse about what we're talking about.

Re: Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

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Post by Y_Y »

caseysoftware wrote: post #15
itsspring wrote: post #4

Can we not have opinions on trade and economics on social media now?

You didn't read the latest guidelines? They specifically ban [redacted] unless you're arguing that [redacted] didn't have anything to do with [redacted]. Unless of course, you've accepted money from [redacted], then you are welcome to criticize [redacted] as long as you mark posts as promotional. It's really pretty easy. Just visit: [redacted] for more details.

Biased propaganda. If you want the truth go to [blueacted].
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