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Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by arpstick »

questiondev wrote: post #252
arpstick wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

very convenient that a lot of bot accounts suddenly follows an account for people trying to amplify the accessibility of information of a trial that is suspiciously low profile considering the people involved.

i know, this just makes the conspiracy crowd more on edge about the whole thing

it is in fact very easy to not fully believe conspiracy theories, those who do go all in with those are not the primary demographic that enjoys thinking about conspiracy theories. It is primarily an activity practiced by people who are capable of entertaining wild ideas without believing them as truth, aka skeptics. I never understood the massive public stigma around being able to have a wild imagination but stay grounded regardless.

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Post by kube-system »

mc32 wrote: post #162
pohl wrote: post #156

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Is the point of your home to allow me to live there?

It’s building a community center but not letting the fat kids come play.

Every community center I am familiar with has rules about the types of events that can be held there.

Even more so when they're owned by specific interest groups.

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

oh_sigh wrote: post #206
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

How can you trust someone who says "There was not outside amplification"? How would the controller of the twitter account differentiate between simple virality and outside amplification? Of course, it's lame that Amy can buy a bunch of bots to get Bob's account canceled.

Well, if they cancel the viral stuff, that might be a net improvement for the world as a whole...

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Post by agentdrtran »

arpstick wrote: post #228
dundarious wrote: post #216

I’m sure there’s plenty of hyperbole in this post, and it's really just more hearsay, but within their lane, I think TrueAnon is reputable enough. https://twitter.com/trueanonpod/status/1468617453718675461 > It was some doofus not at the trials trying to shill his paid sub stack and then tweeting absolute bullshit. As you can imagine, a lot of the 500,000 followers were bots, which is probably why it got suspended. A…

very convenient that a lot of bot accounts suddenly follows an account for people trying to amplify the accessibility of information of a trial that is suspiciously low profile considering the people involved.

if you listen to trueanon they had to open multiple overflow rooms becuase press agents from all over the world are lining up hours early to get it, it's not low profile.

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Post by joshuamorton »

ttybird wrote: post #232
joshuamorton wrote: post #197

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Under what claim would you file a lawsuit against a private company about censorship? Or are you asking for the first amendment to be repealed?

I thought that the first amendment was about people rather than companies. In addition to that there are many products where companies have to display certain information, such as age rating for games, health warrnings on cigaretts, food content, allergy warning, nutrition labels, medicine side-effects, etc It is hard to classify censorship as speech for a site that it is all about user-content.

Companies are just people as far as the constitution is concerned (or really they're groups of people, but assembly is also protected by the first amendment!)

The food safety labels is an interesting point, but I'm not even talking about gov regulations here. Just, let's say Twitter deletes your post. What do you sue them for?

The 1a allows twitters employees to express themselves as they wish, even through the company, so their removal of your post is simply their own protected expression.

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Post by xanaxagoras »

josefx wrote: post #247
ttybird wrote: post #232

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I thought that the first amendment was about people rather than companies. In addition to that there are many products where companies have to display certain information, such as age rating for games, health warrnings on cigaretts, food content, allergy warning, nutrition labels, medicine side-effects, etc It is hard to classify censorship as speech for a site that it is all about user-content.

> I thought that the first amendment was about people rather than companies. Any amendment written before slavery was abolished probably had a rather flexible view on the whole "people" issue. If an African American can be property then a corporation can be a person.

This discussion has nothing to do with race. You're obsessed.

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Post by imwillofficial »

pixelgeek wrote: post #159
imwillofficial wrote: post #123

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Slippery Slope isn’t a fallacy. It’s literally how things progress from good to worse. Identifying early signs of Stalin’s rise to power would be called Slippery Slope these days. As for twitter, their focus removing on information that is damaging to people in power is concerning. These days private corps wield as much or more power than governments.

I don't think that there is any in Stalin's rise to power[0] that would fit the definition. The post you are responding to also refers specifically to the Slippery Slope Fallacy[1] which is a different beast than just calling something a 'Slippery Slope' [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Consolidation_of... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

There were many early signs of Stalin’s future misdeeds. Signs if recognized in a climate like today, would be called a slippery slope fallacy.

My point is this, don’t turn off critical thinking because something is a so called fallacy.

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