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Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by pmyteh »

pixelgeek wrote: post #22
zouhair wrote: post #20

As a society we need to redefine what a public space is.

Twitter isn't a public space. It is a privately owned platform.

It's quite an interesting question. There are lots of privately owned 'public' spaces in meatspace, and the function of a space (a place where people get together in public) and its ownership (municipal, commons, private) don't always overlap.

Which doesn't necessarily mean that Twitter should be treated as a town square, because it's clearly something different to that. Similar sorts of concerns about the centrality of private spaces to public use led to PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins, a California case allowing political activity at shopping centres against the wishes of the operator. That case hasn't been widely followed in other states and countries, though, probably for good reasons.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by evancoop »

zouhair wrote: post #20

As a society we need to redefine what a public space is.

Let's consider that the question can be altered slightly to "how much private space can one single entity acquire?" Perhaps the current understanding of public/private is sufficient, e.g. "a private company can bar who it chooses, given that they do not violate some paradigm of protected classes, etc." The problem is that ONE entity owns a majority of a certain type of "space."

The redefinition would be to say, "once you own more than X% of something, it cannot be governed by existing rules about 'private' spaces?"

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Post by criddell »

pixelgeek wrote: post #22
zouhair wrote: post #20

As a society we need to redefine what a public space is.

Twitter isn't a public space. It is a privately owned platform.

The person you are responding to is suggesting that a virtual space designed for public congregation should perhaps be designated as a public space.

It isn't that different from asking if a shopping mall is a public space and the courts have sometimes said "yes". See:

https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/2016/05/aa-shopping-cent...

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Post by mc32 »

paganel wrote: post #12

> user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information". That is newspeak pure and simple.

Twitter ought to suspend its artificially amplifying algos.

The only things they’re not happy about is news they don’t agree with is getting engagement.

I.e. “you’re holding it wrong.”[1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/amp

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Post by cblconfederate »

motohagiography wrote: post #10

Is there a good case for why someone who doesn't use twitter would create an account and use it now? Trying to figure out what organic growth for them looks like.

despite all this, twitter is still the source where you can find "dissident" voices who speak for themselves. For example with the whole discussion wrt to vaccines, all other sources do some inane level of "censoring" which has no rhyme or reason. HN generally avoids the subject due to politics, reddit allows its $0/month moderators to do whatever the fuck they want, FB ewww i wont even go there, what's left?

For me twitter is the only source where i can subscribe to people who aren't passionate, aren't constantly preaching, and aren't afraid to present their side of the story (they exist, you just have to find them by aggressive elimination)

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Post by hanniabu »

balbaugh wrote: post #7

There is a Substack associated with the suspended twitter account [0]. They have made a recent post about the suspension of said account and all of the users other twitter accounts [1]. It states that twitter told the user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information". [0] https://patriotone.substack.com [1] https://patriotone.substack.com/p/twitter-suspension

> twitter told the user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information".

When will twitter ban itself?

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

mikeyouse wrote: post #9

There are plenty of reputable journalists closely following the trial including Julie K Brown, the Miami based reporter whose story broke the whole thing open a few years ago leading to these arrests: https://twitter.com/jkbjournalist Adam Klasfeld is another one I enjoy: https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports

Are you saying Twitter banned this group because there was already other people reporting on the topic? Is that a standard in the TOS, that “First!” is an actionable internet rule?
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