Live data from Hacker News

Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

melovedata.com

21–30 of 763 posts

Re: Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

#21
post #19

To the people constantly saying that twitter is a private company and should be allowed to do whatever they want: Would you support the same idea around electrical power? If the power company providing the power to the office at the NyPost decided that they had a political disagreement with them, would it be okay to just cut off their power? NyPost could just make their own power, of course, by purchasing a generator…

Electrical power shouldn't be privately controlled.

Re: Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

#22
Twitters censorship just serves to further polarize and divide people.

As the right bails on twitter and goes to pure conservative echo chambers and the left stays in their leftist echo chambers... any shared interactions are lost.

Even though it's their right as a private company...its truly a shame that Twitter is acting like this.

Re: Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

#23
post #11

I mean, isn't it good when they uniformly apply policies against sharing illicitly obtained private content?

Will this apply this to the discussion about the claim that Trump paid $750 in taxes?

Would this apply to the Trump access hollywood tape (grab them by the...)?

Re: Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

#24
post #11

I mean, isn't it good when they uniformly apply policies against sharing illicitly obtained private content?

So why wasn't the NYT punished for publishing info from Trump's tax returns? The laptop story could at least be true. There is no way for the NYT to receive Trump's tax returns without someone committing a crime.

NYT didn't publish Trump's tax returns, they published prose about supposed contents of Trump's tax returns. If the articles had PDFs of the documents at the bottom, Twitter should probably block them too. But they don't.

Re: Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

#25
post #2

Twitter is a private corporation and perhaps its best if we all realize that FB/Twitter/Google are biased agencies. That said, maybe it's best if NYPost stays off Twitter.

And suddenly twitter is a leftist corporation. Frankly I don't know whats the better way for twitter, its one of those doomed if you do, doomed if not.

We’ll see if on Nov 4 they re-instate it...

Re: Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

#27
post #2

Twitter is a private corporation and perhaps its best if we all realize that FB/Twitter/Google are biased agencies. That said, maybe it's best if NYPost stays off Twitter.

I don't understand how people want to ignore that being pro-"free speech" means private sector corporations can choose which speech they want to associate with too just like an individual can. You have the right to say whatever you want, everyone else has the right to not allow it on their property. There is no first amendment right to compelled listening. We aren't remotely close to having that. There isn't even a s…

I think the issue is that people like me aren't interested in any sort of filtering or curation from Twitter, Facebook, etc. We simply want to see what the people we follow have to say, in linear time order. That was the initial premise of these sites, and it's unfortunate that it is becoming more editorial in nature.

Re: Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

#29

Twitter's lack of transparency is depressing. If they're going to lock the NY Post account, they should put a notification on the page (and perhaps a reason why). Right now if you go to the NY Post Twitter it just looks like they voluntarily decided to stop tweeting, which is misinformation.

Is there any reason to think the NY Post didn't get a notification with a reason why?

Re: Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

#30
post #21
post #19

To the people constantly saying that twitter is a private company and should be allowed to do whatever they want: Would you support the same idea around electrical power? If the power company providing the power to the office at the NyPost decided that they had a political disagreement with them, would it be okay to just cut off their power? NyPost could just make their own power, of course, by purchasing a generator…

Electrical power shouldn't be privately controlled.

Maybe not, but it is.
Post reply on HN