I'm confused. What's an example of a tweet from a government official which breaks the rules but deserves to be kept up?
Defining Public Interest on Twitter
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#12I'm confused. What's an example of a tweet from a government official which breaks the rules but deserves to be kept up?
Threatening violence is against Twitter's rules and yet world leaders have threatened war on Twitter. Those tweets deserve to stay up because they have public value, but Twitter needs some concrete policy on why a world leader saying they will "obliterate Iran" is different than a random person saying they will assault another random person. I am not sure this policy is a good answer to that, but they needed to do something.
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#13>When a Tweet has this notice placed on it, it will feature less prominently on Twitter, and not appear in: >Safe search >Timeline when switched to Top Tweets >Live events pages >Recommended Tweet push notifications >Notifications tab >Explore Getting out in front of the 2020 election, I see. Better conform to Twitter's code of conduct if you want to maximize reach! Edit: Good time to get to know who will be making t…
Which of Twitter's rules do you think are inappropriate? https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules
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#14No company should be attempting to define what's in public interest. Especially not Twitter. There's huge information asymmetry not to mention that they've already demonstrated themselves as being not even remotely politically neutral.
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#15>When a Tweet has this notice placed on it, it will feature less prominently on Twitter, and not appear in: >Safe search >Timeline when switched to Top Tweets >Live events pages >Recommended Tweet push notifications >Notifications tab >Explore Getting out in front of the 2020 election, I see. Better conform to Twitter's code of conduct if you want to maximize reach! Edit: Good time to get to know who will be making t…
Which of Twitter's rules do you think are inappropriate? https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules
It's not that they're inappropriate, it's that they will be enforced selectively.
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#16This is one big reason Twitter hasn't been (and may not be) acquired. Who needs this headache and expense? This isn't as disturbing as Vimeo's takedown of Project Veritas, or the bias exposed in their video, but the trend is seriously alarming.
Twitter is a public company. They don't need to be acquired.
I totally agree with the second part of your statement though.
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#17>When a Tweet has this notice placed on it, it will feature less prominently on Twitter, and not appear in: >Safe search >Timeline when switched to Top Tweets >Live events pages >Recommended Tweet push notifications >Notifications tab >Explore Getting out in front of the 2020 election, I see. Better conform to Twitter's code of conduct if you want to maximize reach! Edit: Good time to get to know who will be making t…
If I understand the new policy correctly, what Twitter is doing is taking an official step back from simply deferring to the Trust and Safety Council, by allowing public figures of sufficient stature to avoid having their posts removed, even if they do violate Twitter's rules.
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#18I'm confused. What's an example of a tweet from a government official which breaks the rules but deserves to be kept up?
I suspect the answer is less “deserves to be kept up” and more “mustn't be pulled down lest we risk the wrath of or lose the attention caused by having the author”. Can you imagine if Twitter suspended the current President of the United States? They'd have the Republican political machine at their throats and lose a ton of attention and thus ad revenue that they currently get from his tweets.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which of Twitter's rules do you think are inappropriate? https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules
It's not that they're inappropriate, it's that they will be enforced selectively.
So what is the alternative here? Allow everything from copyright infringement to threats of violence to child porn?
That is what I don't get about the complaints of these companies censoring users. Every mature government has already agreed that completely unlimited free speech is not a good thing as speech can infringe on the rights of others. We are just debating about where exactly the line is now. You are free to complain about specific instances of Twitter censoring users, but the idea that they shouldn't be able to censor anyone is a lost cause.
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#20>When a Tweet has this notice placed on it, it will feature less prominently on Twitter, and not appear in: >Safe search >Timeline when switched to Top Tweets >Live events pages >Recommended Tweet push notifications >Notifications tab >Explore Getting out in front of the 2020 election, I see. Better conform to Twitter's code of conduct if you want to maximize reach! Edit: Good time to get to know who will be making t…
Do you have a better solution?
I am honestly thinking on how would I solve the problem where I own a popular social network or forum/subreddit, I want to prevent it to become a shit place, so I would like to put some rules like HN and other communities have , how can I prevent the situation where people will call me as censoring them on my own community? My only solution would be to ban political discussion completely and implement some hard punishment for people that don't respect the community rules of conduct even banning the bad actors.