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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by jacknews »

I hate to have anything even vaguely in common with Trump, but there is some sense in this.

The platforms have been shadow-banning (a particularly egregious policy), censoring, and otherwise shaping the content on their sites for a good while now.

At the same time they claim to be merely a 'pipe', conecting content producers, and consumers.

They can't have it both ways.

This 'executive order' is obviously a spiteful, and frankly, unbelievable-that-it's-legal move by this, man, but there is still a germ of truth to it.

For me, tagging content, but still making it generally available, is far less sinister than disappearing it, or only presenting it to profiled users, etc, etc.

IMHO.

Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by gowld »

The hardest part here is deciphering what the incoherent tweet is trying to say.

We have a President that is consistently harder to comprehend than GPT-2. Let that sink in.

Here's some back on the phrase. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/where-does-phrase-...

The amazing part to me is that Trump knows an authoritarian-violence catchphrase from 50 years ago. "MAGA" indeed.

Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by _ZeD_ »

Animats wrote: post #79

Twitter policy: "We start from a position of assuming that people do not intend to violate our Rules. Unless a violation is so egregious that we must immediately suspend an account, we first try to educate people about our Rules and give them a chance to correct their behavior. We show the violator the offending Tweet(s), explain which Rule was broken, and require them to remove the content before they can Tweet agai…

following the wikipedia article I found

https://www.avclub.com/twitter-releases-statement-confirming...

"Twitter releases statement confirming it'll never ban Donald Trump"

Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by jeromegv »

areyousure wrote: post #263
dannyw wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter should have suspended the account of a repeated rule breaker a long time ago. If I threatened to shoot the president, I would be in jail already, not to mention my twitter account would be suspended.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22shoot%20trump%22&src=typed_q... https://twitter.com/swoIIens/status/1266247882652278785 https://twitter.com/uwork4me247/status/1265065191311638529 https://twitter.com/SweeetTeeeaaa/status/1263924178048241665 https://youtu.be/E4i3bAtEuJE?t=184

This is a wrong way to prove your point because we don't know how many tweets and accounts were actually taking down for threatening violence.

Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by gowld »

creaghpatr wrote: post #292

The White House twitter account has issued a response: https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1266367168603721728?s=... This* Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, @Twitter has determined that it will allow terrorists, dictators, and foreign propagandists to abuse its platform. *Referring to an attached picture of a Khamenei tweet about Palestine

That's amazing. Of all the horrific thing people post to Twitter all day long, a vague statement about Palestinian independence is the "best" whataboutist comparison Trump could find to match his own threat to open fire on the country he is sworn to defend.

Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by dathinab »

umvi wrote: post #260
Traster wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? Because literally this week Trump tweeted something and then followed it up with an executive order.

He also promised to throw Hillary in prison for the emails. Still waiting on that one.

I think he would have done so if he could. In the end the US president has a lot more power then president's in other democratic counties but still he's constrained by the law.

Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by javajosh »

_ZeD_ wrote: post #304
Animats wrote: post #79

Twitter policy: "We start from a position of assuming that people do not intend to violate our Rules. Unless a violation is so egregious that we must immediately suspend an account, we first try to educate people about our Rules and give them a chance to correct their behavior. We show the violator the offending Tweet(s), explain which Rule was broken, and require them to remove the content before they can Tweet agai…

following the wikipedia article I found https://www.avclub.com/twitter-releases-statement-confirming... "Twitter releases statement confirming it'll never ban Donald Trump"

Maybe. But there's probably a business model out there this is simply a Twitter clone that waits for the Trump account to move there, and bang, instant success.
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