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Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trending Topic
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#32This would be whack-a-mole otherwise, but when I saw this trending the vast majority of the tweets were sharing videos of people chanting that slogan in the Capitol amidst the storm. By suppressing the sharing of that information people are actually less likely to be aware that's what they were chanting (I know I would be less aware because that's where I learned about it). Now I guess there's the potential they were…
This is a perfect example of why social media is a total disaster and no one should be trusting it for anything at all. There are many, many things that seem to be taken as fact on social media that are impossible to find on any reputable media source. Maybe the crowd was chanting hang Mike Pence, maybe not. I'll wait until a credible source reports it. The AP had reporters in the crowd (getting assaulted [1]), presumably many other organizations did as well, I expect them to report what they heard.
There are many other examples (both from this incident and others) already prevalent, including on HN, which is really depressing.
1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/01/09/he-was-docum...
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#33It's kind of sad to see how these threads quickly turn into a a messy sequence of poorly reasoned arguments or how some people are trying to justify really extreme positions.
It is interesting that this comment is written in a specifically vague way so no one can tell if the "extreme position" you are talking about is hanging the sitting VP or censoring social media. Therefore lots of people are going to upvote this thinking you are on their side and it is the other side that uses "poorly reasoned arguments" to defend their "really extreme positions."
I was referring to the threats of hanging in this case. I phrased it more generally because there are many other examples from the similar threads that we've had over the past couple of days. It's astounding that I even need to clarify this.
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#34If that was about reporting what happened at the Capitol I don't think it should've been removed. But if people was asking in Twitter for Pence to be hanged, then yes.
We shouldn't treat the same way reporting violence than violence itself.
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#35It's kind of sad to see how these threads quickly turn into a a messy sequence of poorly reasoned arguments or how some people are trying to justify really extreme positions.
It is interesting that this comment is written in a specifically vague way so no one can tell if the "extreme position" you are talking about is hanging the sitting VP or censoring social media. Therefore lots of people are going to upvote this thinking you are on their side and it is the other side that uses "poorly reasoned arguments" to defend their "really extreme positions."
This was my thought exactly. It's a technique that i see people like Sam Altman and other tech gurus use on twitter. Make no specific mention about who or what you're talking about, and your words can apply to everything and appeal to everyone.
I'll say my own personal quiet part out loud: Every thread on this topic has the highest upvoted chain of comments about how "Trump was bad, but i worry about the implications of banning politicians". This sole statement has been stretched to its logical limits. There's very little more to discuss about this that is interesting or new.
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#36I considered trying to get visa to USA and work there, but honestly last year makes me really worried about living there is it safe to live there?
>Is it safe to live there?
As someone who has lived here my entire life I'm not sure how the next month is going to unfold.
Historically though the United States has crime issues, a few of the most dangerous cities in the world (not in a war zone) are in the US (St. Louis, Baltimore, Detroit).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
https://apnews.com/article/homicide-st-louis-coronavirus-pan...
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#37I considered trying to get visa to USA and work there, but honestly last year makes me really worried about living there is it safe to live there?
You probably can't get a VISA. Trump really turned the screws to the # of available ones, only 85K H1B last year (200,000 people applied). Might want to wait a year for Biden to fix that.
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#38Why would a Trump supporter want to “hang Mike Pence” when he has been loyal to him for 4 years and just did his constitutional duty on the 6th ? I am lost for words
One man's "just did his constitutional duty" is another man's "completed a stolen, fraudulent election".
I'm in the first camp, but the fact that an entire news/social media ecosystem is promoting the latter interpretation is a problem I have no idea how to solve.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was more about documenting what happened a few days ago and what intentions the rioters had. That context is lacking and should have been provided by Twitter right away when making it "trending".
“Hang Mike Pence” is a call for violence.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was more about documenting what happened a few days ago and what intentions the rioters had. That context is lacking and should have been provided by Twitter right away when making it "trending".
“Hang Mike Pence” is a call for violence.
That's what some of the protesters were screaming. It started trending when people pointed this fact, not as a support for it, but because people were freaking out and started to document/discuss it.