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Re: Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social

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Post by tehlike »

fartcannon wrote: post #27
tehlike wrote: post #11

I bet it's likely a bug. There were times i wasnt able to post LinkedIn urls in the past. I bet it's their crawler/integrity service having hard time. Never assume malice when it can be sufficiently explained by a bug or incompetence.

Nowadays, maybe let's assume malice. Maybe its a false positive and a bunch of people stop using twitter, Facebook, google, apple, or Microsoft as a result. That is less harmful (some might say it's good) than the opposite, where big corps use our collective desire to forgive as a tool to exploit us. You can apply that saying to your wife and kids. Or your neighbour. Big corps that make money off exploiting peoples n…

That must be a hard life assuming things are working against you

Re: Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social

#32

Post by colpabar »

tehlike wrote: post #11

I bet it's likely a bug. There were times i wasnt able to post LinkedIn urls in the past. I bet it's their crawler/integrity service having hard time. Never assume malice when it can be sufficiently explained by a bug or incompetence.

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Re: Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social

#33

Post by VWWHFSfQ »

usr1106 wrote: post #20
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

antitrust? Is twitter a monopoly now?

Who are the competitors? What is their market share?

Facebook. Instagram. Reddit. Or do you just mean 300 character micro blogging platforms? Then yes. They have a monopoly on that industry.

Re: Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social

#34

Post by tehlike »

colpabar wrote: post #32
tehlike wrote: post #11

I bet it's likely a bug. There were times i wasnt able to post LinkedIn urls in the past. I bet it's their crawler/integrity service having hard time. Never assume malice when it can be sufficiently explained by a bug or incompetence.

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No. This is different and smells either a crawler that can't crawl a page for integrity purposes, or it can crawl and somehow the url got blacklisted.

I assume hunter Biden story is more of the "disinformation" moderators blocking wrongfully, or them shutting down Wuhan lab leak theory, but this smells very different.

Re: Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social

#35

Post by gaius_baltar »

sequoia wrote: post #22

A lot of people here are jumping to conclusions based on what could simply be a bug. Why not wait 24hrs and see if this is actually some policy or just a mistake.

"It's a bug" is also a very convenient excuse for a lot of behaviors from the usual companies...

Re: Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social

#36

Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

nkozyra wrote: post #15
sillysaurusx wrote: post #4

Not surprising. Social networks have been known to block smaller competitors. After all, it’s their right to as a private company. Isn’t that how that works? Everyone always says that, and this is a case of that.

> After all, it’s their right to as a private company. Isn’t that how that works? Everyone always says that, and this is a case of that. Unless I missed it, until you wrote this nobody had argued it wasn't their right to do this.

It's their right but it's still crummy. I want Section 230 to be repealed.

Re: Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social

#37

Post by timbit42 »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #13
bombcar wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the kind of thing that's interesting to document for a potential anti-trust case. Blocking the entire domain because it's "spammy" could be argued as fair - but only blocking the main links is more suspect.

antitrust? Is twitter a monopoly now?

A company doesn't have to be a monopoly to engage in monopolistic practices.

Re: Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social

#39

Post by debacle »

dpedu wrote: post #29

When I attempt this I get a modal message saying: > We can't complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful. Visit our Help Center to learn more. Who are these partners, that apparently have the ability to block links on twitter? Edit: attempting to save the tweet as a draft results in a different error: "The content of your Tweet is invalid."

Twitter's "Trusted Partner Platform" includes government organizations (including those outside the US), fortune 500s, etc.

Re: Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social

#40

Post by fartcannon »

tehlike wrote: post #31
fartcannon wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nowadays, maybe let's assume malice. Maybe its a false positive and a bunch of people stop using twitter, Facebook, google, apple, or Microsoft as a result. That is less harmful (some might say it's good) than the opposite, where big corps use our collective desire to forgive as a tool to exploit us. You can apply that saying to your wife and kids. Or your neighbour. Big corps that make money off exploiting peoples n…

That must be a hard life assuming things are working against you

Nah, its good. Lots of dopamine from being right all the time.
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