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Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

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Re: Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

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Post by seesawtron »

Simulacra wrote: post #40
seesawtron wrote: post #7

"Let's suspend everything that seems to be offensive but if public starts to make a big deal out of it, just say there was a bug with our automated software for filtering content. It's not like anyone will ever look at our code"

It would be interesting to see a cataloging of censorship actions by social/media companies, etc. alongside the response. Ie Company x did y, z number of times, and blamed a bug w times versus deliberative actions q times.

they are never going to show their proprietary code

Re: Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

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Post by Fjolsvith »

renewiltord wrote: post #29
faned wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you support changing laws to allow Twitter to ban black people from their platform?

I think the constraints on these companies should be the same as in normal public discourse. It is strange to me that I can talk to someone on the street about how I'm trying to minimize my consumption of Chinese goods and how this is worthwhile and no one would bat an eye but that that is somehow offensive online. We can then decide if we want to regulate general public discourse about what we're talking about.

Twitter is not a free speech platform. Simple.
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