Earlier quoted context omitted.
Specifically policing misinformation around elections?
policing "misinformation" is not the role of the United States government.
What part of the H. Biden laptop was "misinformation"?
The Twitter Files, Part Six
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#482Earlier quoted context omitted.
They were coordinating with Yoel Roth to police content. It's absurd that this news is being dismissed people don't like Twitter's new chief .
Private company = their rules on their product. Musk is demonstrating this aptly currently.
FBI is not a private company.
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#483Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not a backchannel... every social media company has a dedicated response team that handles requests from law enforcement, partners, big media companies, etc. Do you think Disney just hits the report button on YouTube? This is an official method of reporting content. Literally every major company does this and the reasons why have been explained for years.
It is a back channel, you’re/we’re just accustomed to bootlicking behaviors in business
IDK if you understand what back channel means... This was an official of communication for the FBI. Back channel would be using personal devices and emails.
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#484This is actually an argument for why Twitter shouldn't exist. Twitter makes it super easy to do mass warrantless surveillance, because Twitter gathers millions of people together in the same searchable public space. It's a honeypot. What's dangerous about the "public square" concept is that Musk doesn't just want a public square — one public space among many, one among equals — he wants the public square, a monopoly…
Didn't Snowden show us, that there already is warrantless mass surveillance as soon as you use the internet?
No matter where or what site you use.
Re: The Twitter Files, Part Six
#485The wildest part of the Twitter files is the unhinged framing that they are presented under. 1. Anyone who has been in a tech company knows that there is internal lingo that refers to features we devs make. But it's presented as being an "Orwellian language" 2. Based on the emails he posts, the agencies give links to review based on tips they receive or their own intel and twitter then decides if it violates ToS or n…
> Anyone who has been in a tech company knows that there is internal lingo that refers to features we devs make. But it's presented as being an "Orwellian language"
The fact that you need different internal descriptors should be a red flag. All kinds of phrases get used like selective invisibility, visibility filtering, ranking, visible to self, reducing, deboosting, or disguising a gag. Each is a form of censorship, but that's a bad word since the days of Anthony Comstock so it is never used. Censors never describe themselves as censors. See the book "The Mind of the Censor",
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58150067-the-mind-of-the...
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#4863. Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary. 4. Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth. How is this constant? This is just 1 request every 7 days . I figured it would be more. Also, it's called the FBI. Their job is to investigate federal matters, which includes content on socia…
I doubt that there will be much change on the FBI part under Musk
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#487Earlier quoted context omitted.
Their job is to investigate, prevent and prosecute criminal behaviour. That includes content that isn't protected by free speech e.g. child pornography.
Which is why they’re flagging people making jokes about elections on Twitter, obviously.
Poe's Law. No one can tell your dumbass joke saying the election is on a Wednesday is a joke. Especially when it's right next to a bot account from eastern Europe that said the same thing.
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#488Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also I think the idea is to try and attract conservatives from other apps e.g. TruthSocial. Good idea in theory except that many of those users aren't as well-behaved so to speak. And so the overall quality of the discourse has noticeably dropped since Musk took over.
I think he's just trying to eliminate the cultural barrier for marketing a Tesla pick up truck.
Pwn the libs by buying a Tesla pickup!
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#489While LE probably has legitimate reason to have contacts in every major company SV company, its still chilling to see how friendly and obedient Twitter was, makes you wonder what other social media companies are doing with the government, and how they respond to "suggestions".
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#490The wildest part of the Twitter files is the unhinged framing that they are presented under. 1. Anyone who has been in a tech company knows that there is internal lingo that refers to features we devs make. But it's presented as being an "Orwellian language" 2. Based on the emails he posts, the agencies give links to review based on tips they receive or their own intel and twitter then decides if it violates ToS or n…
> Anyone who has been in a tech company knows that there is internal lingo that refers to features we devs make. But it's presented as being an "Orwellian language" The fact that you need different internal descriptors should be a red flag. All kinds of phrases get used like selective invisibility, visibility filtering, ranking, visible to self, reducing, deboosting, or disguising a gag. Each is a form of censorship,…
OK but at the same time Elon is proposing “freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach”. Which is basically the same thing, no?