I don't pay for twitter, I don't have any reasonable expectations for a SLA regarding anything including DMs. Just like I have no responsibility to listen to people on soapboxes on street corners, and soap companies have no responsibility to provide soapboxes to anyone to shout from.
Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
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#83There's a recurring argument on social media censorship that goes: "you wouldn't want the telephone company censoring phone conversations would you?" And the response is along the lines: "these are hardly private conversations, any tweet can go viral and be seen by millions". This story breaks that mold in that it involves social media censoring private conversations via DM. If you think that's OK for Twitter on its…
The difference between the telephone company and Twitter is that the phone company was (historically) a monopoly - the only game in town. Use their wires or get lost. It required common carrier neutrality by regulation.
Twitter (and every single commercial social media space) is not the above, and can do what it wants on its service. It's not a public utility.
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#84They also locked the NY Post's Twitter account https://twitter.com/noahmanskar/status/1316459416414302208?s...
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The NY Post editor is Sohrab Ahmari, and his account https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari remains unsuspended.
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#85I can't really wrap my head around about how shortsighted of a move this is.
Just two weeks ago(!) there was a hearing about Section 230 and Facebook and Twitter were saying it was necessary, and they submitted testimony about misinformation at that hearing.
They've now blown any credibility they had left with half of Congress, possibly more, and have attracted 10x the attention and 10x the perceived credibility to the article.
How did they not expect this to blow up in their face?
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#86The article in question can be found here: https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...
What a bizarre story. Unidentified person drops off a damaged computer at a repair shop and never comes back. Hard drive contains lots of salacious info about Hunter Biden. Repair shop decides the correct course of action is to give it to Rudy Giuliani. That is fishy as hell.
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#87Facebook is NOT blocking the Post from posting. They are limiting sharing. This headline is a good example of way it may have been the right move. Misinformation spreads fast.
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#88It's not just that, they (Twitter) were actively suspending people that were posting the article from Google/Bing cached pages. They have also seemingly prevented the story from trending very high or very long.
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#89The fact that this article is flagged is alarming. This is a relevant news story directly related to how technology companies influence public perception. Like it or not, the New York Post is a widely distributed newspaper in the US. Once the precedent for censoring a newspaper has been established there is nothing stopping facebook for censoring more "upscale" conservative newspapers like the WaLl Street Journal or…
+1 I don't know why you are being downvoted, I think HN's flagging system is another way we are being censored. Just this summer, I remember multiple articles with important, true contributions to our understanding of covid that got flagged. We are losing the ability to consider multiple sides of an issue.
I can't comment on their system, and as a long-time HN user overall I find it a great place to have discussion on varied topics. That said, I'm working on a new alternative site and welcome you to check it out. It's called sqwok.im and it's a sort of hybrid between Twitter & Slack/Discord, where each post has a chatroom instead of a comment thread. In beta mode and welcome feedback.
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#90To be fair, the fact that it was published by the New York Post already seriously undercuts the article's credibility.
Edit: and also the fact that it was written in collaboration with the President's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.