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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 JeremyNT »

slickdork wrote: post #74
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

Wow, twitter is really unusable unless you have an account. Can't read threads or look at pictures now. Anyone have a workaround?

In case you aren't already aware, you can use Nitter [0] as an alternate Twitter frontend (you can install an extension to automatically redirect you there, if you prefer). At various times nitter.net may be rate limited, in which case you can look to a list of instances and pick a different one [1].

Here are some direct links to the accounts the parent mentioned, for example: https://nitter.42l.fr/jkbjournalist and https://nitter.42l.fr/KlasfeldReports

[0] https://nitter.net/about

[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter#resources

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by pessimizer »

slickdork wrote: post #74
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

Wow, twitter is really unusable unless you have an account. Can't read threads or look at pictures now. Anyone have a workaround?

https://twitter.censors.us/jkbjournalist/

https://twitter.censors.us/KlasfeldReports/

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by pessimizer »

mc32 wrote: post #96
mikeyouse wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, Julie K. Brown wrote like 30? articles about it, talked to 60+ victims, her reporting lead to Epstein's arrest, Acosta's resignation, Maxwell's trial -- I don't think she's "on the take". https://www.miamiherald.com/topics/jeffrey-epstein Is it an appeal to authority to trust a primary source who is literally in the courtroom every day, instead of a random anonymous Twitter account just cribbing from primary…

I grant you she’s doing a good job, but that does not grant her a monopoly on fact. If only accredited journalists are allowed to report then we have no Wikileaks, no citizen journalism etc. Twitter is in the wrong to suppress an account on account of “artificially” inflating engagement. First, they don’t have to present evidence and second What news organ doesn’t create artificial engagement? It’s a preposterous exc…

> If only accredited journalists are allowed to report

You are not replying to anyone who has suggested this. Anyway, the government licensing of journalists is at least 5 years off.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by kube-system »

imwillofficial wrote: post #117
FDSGSG wrote: post #68

The substack username "patriotone" is pretty revealing. Reeks of QAnon nonsense, the posts themselves contain some pretty obvious dog whistles too.

If it’s obvious, is it a dog whistle?

It depends on the audience. Those who pay close attention to political strategy are more aware of said strategy than those who don't.

I think it is valid to call something a dog whistle as long as it's something where a sizable number of people get differing impressions of the meaning of a statement.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by nradov »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

From a legal perspective, corporations are people too. Age ratings for games are voluntary, not legally required. The Supreme Court has held that governments can impose some limits and requirements on purely commercial speech, but those precedents don't apply to censorship decisions made by private companies. The fact that a site contains mostly user generated content is legally irrelevant.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/900/commercial-...

I understand that some people don't like this situation but that is the reality of US federal law today. It won't change without a Constitutional amendment, or a major realignment of the Supreme Court.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by mikeyouse »

realce wrote: post #204

https://twitter.com/realMattBuck/status/1468535971125895175 @NancyTracker, the account that tweets Pelosi's stock trades, was suspended today.

The person running the Maxwell tracking account ran that account too (per their Gab) -- so whatever they were doing to get banned (they apparently had 200k followers a few days after creating their account, so they likely had paid bots) ensnared both.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by mynameismonkey »

qwertyuiop_ wrote: post #210
hxkandbe wrote: post #30

@dang can we update the link to this one please? At the moment people are just reacting to the headline and there doesn’t seem to be much substance to the debate due to this. https://patriotone.substack.com/p/twitter-suspension

"Just reacting" is questioning Twitter's motives to suspend an account for reporting court proceedings of the most scandalous case in recent US history which entangles everyone on the top political echelons, wall street, hollywood, academia and big tech. Sure go ahead supress the discussion here too.

>Twitter's motives to suspend an account for reporting court proceedings

It's clear Twitter suspended the account for TOS violations, and not the subject matter.

I have no dog in this fight, do not follow the case, but a quick search of Twitter yielded these not-suspended accounts that are "reporting court proceedings" as you say:

https://twitter.com/USvMaxwell https://twitter.com/Trial_Tracker https://twitter.com/CultStateDotCom https://twitter.com/MaxwellTrial

There are dozens at first glance.

There is even a trial tracker tracker...

https://twitter.com/CensorTracker

So, @hxkandbe's request that we use the suspended account's blog post about the suspension to add some context and clarity is in no way suppressing the discussion, but instead seeking to elevate and inform it.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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Post by [deleted] »

mountainb wrote: post #193
errcorrectcode wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends if Twitter's censors agree with the views expressed or not.

There should be a federal law that requires that these moderation teams keep extensive records of their censorship work product in order to maintain their immunity. This censorship work product would then be have to be made available in discovery. Lawsuits challenging a censorship action or account suspension relating to censorship should be granted an exception to the otherwise binding arbitration agreement. The pur…

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