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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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This would all be so much easier if Twitter and other social media companies were actually transparent and explicit about the specific reasons an account was banned. Instead, you are just generically told that you are in violation of the Terms of Service and MAYBE if you're lucky, linked to a certain section of the ToS which might theoretically be relevant to your case. The specific rule that was broken, and examples of behavior which broke that rule are never given.

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.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

#332

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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.

I just opened the front pages of CNN, Fox News, BBC News and NBC News and found the Maxwell case either completely uncovered on the front pages, opinion-only coverage, coverage of only this particular Twitter story, tabloid nonsense or coverage buried so far down the page in a sidebar it may as well not be there.

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

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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?

And then there's the challenge of "Hmm, if I'm a PR firm hired by Maxwell, what can I do? I know, we'll hire a bunch of sock puppets. And then we'll report the account!"

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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post #14
post #2

why? most likely higher ups from Twitter involved with Maxwell and Epstein

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You can't attack another user like this on HN, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. The damage it causes to the ecosystem outweighs any benefit of behaving this way. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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post #2

why? most likely higher ups from Twitter involved with Maxwell and Epstein

We've banned this account for posting ideological flamewar comments. That's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

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.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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post #304

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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?

It's not about caring for the posts, it's about caring for the community you're participating in.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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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

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1462845583178313734 They were and they have an incredibly shady history.

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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post #292

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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.

That doesn't seem right to me - they're saying this account had something like 500k followers (which, again, let's assume that's true) you're going to see reporting from WSJ, NYT, WashPo etc. all of whom have millions of follows. Even some basic reporters have way larger followings - for example I don't know who this guy is: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec but he's got 1.5m followers and seems to be very active reporting Maxwell/Epstein details.

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+

Re: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

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post #322

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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.

You know prior case law isn't the forever definer for future rulings, and has been overturned many times right?

Let's see :)

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