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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 raxxorrax »

dewey wrote: post #54
rscoots wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet we’re left to guess exactly what Twitter deemed us unworthy of reading. The opaqueness of the censor is a feature not a bug.

Or, as it usually happens in these cases some algorithm suspended the account because too many users reported something and it got flagged and it's not some exciting intervention of the deep state.

That is pretty unlikely and not what was proposed. Pretty sure this would not happen to accounts that are deemed reputable sources. Also I guess there are exclusion lists for prominent people that are not beholden to the TOS.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by mbesto »

MrPatan wrote: post #47
pixelgeek wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not at all. It means that the account was using fake accounts and/or bots to help spread information that was viewed to be false.

> user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information". Where does it say the information was false in that sentence? The newspeak worked. and to go from "artificially" to bots and fake accounts... OK, maybe. But how do you know? Not because they told you in that sentence, that's for sure.

> newspeak

You guys keep using that word, but I don't think you know what it means.

Twitter is a private company. Newspeak was a language developed by the government in Orwell's 1984.

VERY different contexts here.

For the record - what Twitter communicated is not clear and potentially deceptive, but this response wasn't written by some Twitter PR person. Some support person pressed a button and a canned twitter response was logged to the user: https://patriotone.substack.com/p/twitter-suspension It can mean 100's of different things. So let's maybe ease down on the Orwellian pitchforks.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by raxxorrax »

adam_arthur wrote: post #60
pixelgeek wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm pretty confident that if a suitable case made it to the supreme court, social media like Twitter would be deemed a de facto public square under the US Constitution. Hopefully then people would apply a little more critical thought, rather than just parroting private vs public. It's clear that at a certain scale, a private space becomes de facto public one, similar to anti-trust legislation breaking up perfectly va…

Apart from that you are also free to apply freedom of speech as a principle outside the bounds of the law, like many platforms have done most of the time until advertising got out of hand with privacy violations and content restrictions. Don't know how anyone could support more content restrictions... doesn't seem too bright at all, didn't hear any compelling case and you always have the option to not engage.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by mikeyouse »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #56
mikeyouse wrote: post #52

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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.

“real journalists”, hmm, there it is again.

Real journalists as in they're literally in the courtroom reporting from the trial, and one of them wrote the series of articles that broke the Epstein thing wide open... vs. randos on Twitter just cribbing their reporting while writing "THREAD" at the top.

How is it remotely controversial to prefer primary sources.. As much as it annoys the very online, reporting isn't just writing twitter threads with your opinions, it actually takes fact finding effort.

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