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Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

#61

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

Great. Why did twitter delete this one?

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

#62

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

Ah well, if we have "reputable journalists" on the case then we don't need some lowlife reporting on it.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

#63
post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"reputable", no less.

Well rather than reading anonymous accounts who aggregate what real journalists are reporting from the courtroom while interspersing random conspiracy theories, it seemed useful to just link to the real journalists directly. An extra benefit is that since the journalists are reputable, their accounts are unlikely to be deleted or suspended.

Fair but it’s an appeal to authority and skirts true Scotsman but… never the less on occasion reputable journalists are leveraged to plant narratives on behalf of interested parties because they are reputable, so there is that. It’s not as though very wealthy people were not ensnared by mr Epstein and would love to keep their involvement low key.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

#64
post #4

It is sad that actions like this don't even surprise people anymore. Perhaps this is one of those Twitter actions that falls under the umbrella of "improving community discussions" instead of the first amendment.

The new CEO has said he doesn't give a fuck about the First Amendment. This is just the beginning.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

#65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, I haven't seen this exact argument play out this exact way 100s of times before! Great addition to the conversation guys. Really insightful.

This is why we need tags for conversations. Yours would get a tag, maybe.

Dude, be careful with that.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

#67
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.

If twitter is going to selectively censor their user base then they are liable for the content the users who remain create.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

#69

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

By handwaving this away I take it you're ok with Twitter deciding who is "reputable" and a "journalist"? There's no evidence this account violated the Twitter TOS.

Bruh I'm just happy someone linked someone else at all. These are current events, moving targets... Squabbling in the comments like that is more of a destructive distraction than anything

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

#70
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

So they were banned for using sock puppets to popularize their tweets?
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