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I used to work at Uber in 1455 on Market St, right beside Twitter and every now and then we had to avoid going to office or come at odd times given the protests.
haha, good. but I dont envy Twitter management. they have stepped onto a very slippery slope. and one they cant make a "winning" decision about. however this works out, Twitter will lose. As much as I hate FB and dont use it, they have made the "safer" decision.
Part of the reason people hate FB and don't use it, is that their leadership is afraid to make risky decisions for the benefit of their users and the quality of their platform.
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Sounds like maybe you should take the hint. It's not "taking sides" to point out that you're glorifying violence if you as the president are threatening to deploy military force against protestors.
I've done my own share of protesting (living in Eastern Europe forces you to do that sometimes) and we never resorted to looting. If we had done so I would have expected the powers that be to take some counter-measures that would have involved more than strong verbal reprimands, yes.
Personally I have never been part of a riotous protest, but in an academic sense I believe that destruction of commercial property does more to force a change in police activity than destruction of police cars and other public property (things that ultimately belong to the people themselves).
You can bet that there are more powerful people in the business community there, than on the police force.
I don't believe this is actively in the mind of most rioters, but I think it is part of the reason that rioting has a major impact on American politics.
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...and a particularly thinly skinned user.
... it is just as if they were intentionally trying to stir controversy, so that more and more people join the trollfest
I feel really disconnected from what is the online mainstream thought. Trump is a huge embarrassment and this tweet should never come from our president. Twitter is doing some real selective enforcement that doesn't seem even handed or even logical. The Tweet in question vaguely qualifies, and there is much worse stuff being posted to Twitter that more clearly and more demonstratively glorifies violence. Search Twitt…
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Why is this reply being downvoted? It is merely informative.
I think because it just restates what's in the link being discussed, when the link is not inaccessible nor behind a paywall. There are a lot of people who think that's bad form on HN. That's my guess. People trying to force everyone to "read the articles" on HN.
One angle I don't see discussed: I wonder if Trump commits to more risky/bombastic/divisive plans as president because he feels confident that he can directly frame them and control the narrative by using his audience on Twitter, and he feels emboldened by how immediately Twitter is able to deliver the reactions. If there's a chance this is true, I can especially understand Twitter wanting to have no part in this. It…
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I think because it just restates what's in the link being discussed, when the link is not inaccessible nor behind a paywall. There are a lot of people who think that's bad form on HN. That's my guess. People trying to force everyone to "read the articles" on HN.
I appreciate someone posting what was actually said because I have limited data.
I couldn't care less for the politics of the USA, but it is mildly amusing that twitter are trolling one of their most prominent users.
Moderating a prominent troll and raising the standards to the level of every other user, is not really politics.
You and Twitter may want it to not be politics... But unfortunately both doing nothing and doing something are political moves by Twitter HQ, I'm afraid.