Whatever the reasoning behind not going into more detail may be is irrelevant. The fact that none is given feeds directly into the narrative that Big Tech is unjustly censoring The Truth That They Don't Want You To Know and only exacerbates the current environment of distrust and disinformation. I feel like this is something that is going to have to change to have any hope of ever returning to some sort of consensus on what constitutes objective reality.
Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial
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#332Earlier 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.
Front page of all the news site is not all that low profile.
That seems pretty poor to me for such a high profile case.
Proof: https://imgur.com/a/78aNg1b
Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial
#333There 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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#334Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial
#335why? most likely higher ups from Twitter involved with Maxwell and Epstein
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If you feel another account is abusing HN, emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look at it would be one good alternative.
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#336why? most likely higher ups from Twitter involved with Maxwell and Epstein
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Should post encouraging dangerous conspiracy theories be given the same level of care as math questions?
Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial
#338There 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
Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial
#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't it seem a pretty strong indicator that the claim they got censored for reporting on Maxwell is untrue because more popular, more credible people aren't being suspended. If the goal is to supress news about Maxwell it seems pretty clear that suspending some small anonymous account would not acheive that.
> more credible people aren't being suspended yes, but this one was the most popular. If they're looking at suppressing news or attention, they'd want to ban the most popular, not the most credible necessarily.
500k sounds extremely unlikely to be the largest reporter covering this, and even if it is, it's not that much more than the reputable reports who have 200k+
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#340Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I’m pretty confident it wouldn’t.
Let's see :)