Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

Post by kranke155 » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 4:31 PM UTC

mdoms wrote: post #332

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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

Post by kranke155 » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

shadowgovt wrote: post #325

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> We as of yet have no real proof any prominent people besides Prince Andrew may be tangentially implicated Isn’t that a reason to follow the case?

Not in the US. The US audience doesn't really care about the UK royal family. And in the UK, the media is constrained by stronger libel laws such that they'll sit on their haunches in terms of reporting on things in the case until they are considered factual enough to withstand a UK libel suit. Allegations thrown about in a foreign court of law don't meet that bar.

Post by dang » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 7:29 PM UTC

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Since you care deeply about the HN community, you should refrain from posting low-quality comments and breaking the site guidelines. As they point out, the way to deal with egregious comments is to not reply, to downvote/flag, and possibly email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look. Otherwise we just end up in a tedious, offtopic spiral.

The discussion here focused on a single spam account being banned from Twitter, flagging comments and suspecting accounts promoting conspiracy theories validates that disgusting worldview (that big tech has a nefarious connection to underaged trafficking). But as the other comment said I do appreciate your civility. I would like to point out this tedious off topic spiral has the benefit of refusing the engage the dan…

Post by SQueeeeeL » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 9:36 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #385

SQueeeeeL wrote: post #370

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The discussion here focused on a single spam account being banned from Twitter, flagging comments and suspecting accounts promoting conspiracy theories validates that disgusting worldview (that big tech has a nefarious connection to underaged trafficking). But as the other comment said I do appreciate your civility. I would like to point out this tedious off topic spiral has the benefit of refusing the engage the dan…

Ok, but the cost of tedious downward spirals greatly exceeds the benefit. Much better is not to feed them. We all need to just accept wrongness on the internet as a cost of doing internet on the internet. Fighting it amplifies it.

Post by SQueeeeeL » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 11:42 PM UTC

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I think that's the fundamental disagreement. I think fighting it through dressing down is most effective. Conspiracy theories thrive on politeness, and masking harmful leaps of faith as innocent conversation. Mockery quickly points out the inherent bad faith of the premise. I don't think open platforms have to cater to such extremism.

The site guidelines are clear on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . HN is one kind of site (the kind where that's not ok) and not the other. I get that not everyone agrees with the guidelines or would design a community to be this way, and that's fine—there's room for many different kinds of community, including many that haven't been created yet. We're going to enforce the rules of this one, th…