Twitter Is Wrong for Censoring and Fact Checking
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Twitter Is Wrong for Censoring and Fact Checking
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#2Something similar recently happened on the BBC where the presenter of Newsnight unilaterally decided that her opinion on a political story was important to the viewing public.
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#3Sure, but if you're going to say that Twitter should not do any fact checking, then they have to hold all users to the same ToS. Twitter is clearly not holding Trump to the same standard as everyone else for 'news-worthiness' reasons, but that means Twitter needs to then do some other sort of policing.
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#4"Twitter is wrong"
You can stop right there.
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#5It absolutely is not.
If you're a major figure in international politics intentionally spouting actual lies, then your lies should be exposed.
If you're encouraging violence your posts on a private medium then that private company has every right to remove that content from their privately owned platform.
This post said that they randomly "decided" to start enforcing the policies. They've been enforcing them on everyone, just not Trump because he has demonstrated time and again that he will threaten and penalize any company or organization that doesn't act as a completely subordinate organization to him personally.
Twitter has clearly had enough and decided to make him aware that he isn't a special and unique snowflake. He doesn't get any special treatment. He doesn't get to encourage violence. He doesn't get to outright lie to the public.
If he doesn't like those rules he can go off to 4chan, or dailystormer, or wherever else he feels sufficiently safe and coddled.
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#6It absolutely is not. If you're a major figure in international politics intentionally spouting actual lies, then your lies should be exposed. If you're encouraging violence your posts on a private medium then that private company has every right to remove that content from their privately owned platform. This post said that they randomly "decided" to start enforcing the policies. They've been enforcing them on every…
And those people with the wrong skin color can just go to that other restaurant that will accept them. This restaurant is a private establishment and we have rules!
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#7> A platform that chooses what is “right” and “wrong” is a platform that oversteps the their authority and breaks the bond between itself, the internet and its users. We don’t have to go too far in history to see what happens when a platform, body of people, are given that level power.
Ah, the old slippery slope argument. Whether or not Twitter has a responsibility to fact check tweets, they absolutely have a right to do so.
Its too bad the author didn't give some examples to back up this boldly stated opinion
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#8> A platform that chooses what is “right” and “wrong” is a platform that oversteps the their authority and breaks the bond between itself, the internet and its users. We don’t have to go too far in history to see what happens when a platform, body of people, are given that level power. Ah, the old slippery slope argument. Whether or not Twitter has a responsibility to fact check tweets, they absolutely have a right t…
In the specific example given in the article twitter was "fact" checking an opinion with a different opinion.
Personally I would say that whether a tweet deserves a warning is mostly independent on whether it is factually true. It is far too easy to lie with only factually correct statements.
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#9It absolutely is not. If you're a major figure in international politics intentionally spouting actual lies, then your lies should be exposed. If you're encouraging violence your posts on a private medium then that private company has every right to remove that content from their privately owned platform. This post said that they randomly "decided" to start enforcing the policies. They've been enforcing them on every…
And those people with the wrong skin color can just go to that other restaurant that will accept them. This restaurant is a private establishment and we have rules!
What on earth are you talking about?
No one is censoring him for his skin color, his religion, his beliefs, his political view point.
He isn't being censored for being POTUS, or Republican, or anything else.
His false statements are being linked to "here are the actual facts" documents. Those posts are still completely visible, there is no censoring, he just not being given carte blanche permission to provide objectively false information.
His threats of violence, and encouragement to that end are the only things being hidden by default - you can still see them.
The latter is still not equivalent to your argument. Not even remotely.
I don't get to reject to serve someone because of their religion, gender, orientation, or race. But if someone comes to my store and starts shouting that we should harm other people, then yeah I do get to kick them out. There is no debate here.
Racists and the like always love to compare suppression of threats and calls to harm others to denying service to others on the basis of who they are.
Twitter doesn't kick nazis or homophobes off the platform. Unless they start calling for harms to others or actively state that other people don't have the right to exist.
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#10Be careful what you wish for:
Facebook applies dubious “false info” fact-check label to Patriot Act video https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23356373