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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”
#382The neutral companies, such as utilities, online hosting or financial providers serve nearly everyone with little objections - they defer to the law rather than any internal policies. The more selective companies such as newspapers and TV channels are expected to restrict who can get published. By representing itself both as an open platform and as a company with progressive values, Twitter has put itself into an awk…
Fact-checking obvious lies is a "progressive value"? Wow, that really shows how bad things have gotten.
Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
#383Twitter is well within the rights to do this, but I have seen tweets from blue check marks essentially calling for violence and Twitter didn't remove them. So, does that mean Twitter actually -supports- those view points now? If Twitter is going to police people, it needs to be across the board. Otherwise it's just a weird censorship that is targeting one person and can easily be seen as political. Everyone is applau…
I'm just going to say again that I can't for the life of me understand why people are in agreement that this tweet glorifies violence. It is a call to stop being violent lest violence increase.
Looting always leads to shooting. This is a simple fact.
I'm horrified that so many people think me saying that is glorifying violence. I don't understand it in the slightest. Seeing this tweet by Trump get silenced absolutely convinces me that there is a conspiracy. Not so much against the right, but against truth.
Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh? Do you have any examples? This is nothing new, Twitter has been applying this standard to tweets for a very long time (it's part of their ToS!). It usually results in deleting your tweet or an outright ban. The only difference here is that they've kept the tweet up since they deem it to be in the public's interest.
How about this one: https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1086927762634399744?...
You could say requesting dox is a form of violence. But it's a lot less violent than ordering the military to shoot people. It's reasonable that a policy of removing tweets that glorify violence would catch one but not the other.
Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
#385Twitter 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"
The headline is misleading. The "statement" is a Twitter thread, and it doesn't say anything about banning or not banning everybody. The body of the article concedes that it only "heavily implies" they'll never ban him. And that was three years ago. Some stuff has happened since then.
Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
#386Twitter is well within the rights to do this, but I have seen tweets from blue check marks essentially calling for violence and Twitter didn't remove them. So, does that mean Twitter actually -supports- those view points now? If Twitter is going to police people, it needs to be across the board. Otherwise it's just a weird censorship that is targeting one person and can easily be seen as political. Everyone is applau…
Twitter regularly hides violent tweets. It is just algo based and nothing to do with conservatives. I mean, it may seem biased if conservatives are posting a lot of violent tweets
Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
#387Wow. This man needs a lesson on how to deescalate a situation properly. Will this heavy handed approach really make people less angry? I doubt it..
The National Guard would go to stop violence, wouldn't it? Pretty interesting how people even here try to invert the situation for political reasons.
The national guard shooting citizens isn't "stopping violence".
Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
#388Side topic: Should government control looting when it comes to violent protests?
Looting is illegal. It happening when there's a violent "protest" going on doesn't make it any less illegal. One of the government's core tasks is to enforce the law, so yes, the government should control looting. And FWIW, I think "violent protest" is a misleading euphemism. This is a riot, whether you speak American [0] or English [1]. I honestly don't understand why this is a question. Why wouldn't the government…
I am raising this question because many think that looting is the right thing to do and it allows avenge of George Floyd. I personally think that it hurts George Floyd's cause and only creates more divide. Violence is not the answer to society's deep racial issues.
Thanks I guess for citing the definition of a Riot. I think that's a better word for it.
Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
#389Twitter is well within the rights to do this, but I have seen tweets from blue check marks essentially calling for violence and Twitter didn't remove them. So, does that mean Twitter actually -supports- those view points now? If Twitter is going to police people, it needs to be across the board. Otherwise it's just a weird censorship that is targeting one person and can easily be seen as political. Everyone is applau…
The enforcement of rules in rarely applied with 100% accuracy in any realm. Not because the rule enforcers support some infractions, but because they have limited manpower and must prioritize their tasks.
Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
#390Side topic: Should government control looting when it comes to violent protests?
Looting should be prevented regardless of protest. The punishment for looting should not be death.