I will never understand why small amount of tech companies should decide who goes into public who not.
They don’t. Anyone can post anything on their own website.
In Trump’s case he can call a press conference.
Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules
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#62So today we had: * Reddit ban a number of pro trump subreddits (details at reddit.com/r/reclassified) * Twitter permanently bans Trump and a number of other influential conservative accounts * Discord has banned the donald win discord * Google banned Parler from the Play Store * Apple is strongly considering to do the same This will go down as a very important day in American Internet history. A very important week i…
Not sure why this is being downvoted. It's a very valid point whether or not you agree with the messages going out on these platforms, the significance these platforms play in public and political discussion is quite apparent. These are serious issues people need to discuss and try to figure out. There is no longer a public square people gather and talk, even more so during this pandemic.
Right now I support the effort given the context, but what happens if I'm on the other side of the table and in the right?
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#63A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25695741
Weird how the old one got flagged. Is there a reason why this shouldn't be discussed on HN?
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#64Makes sense. They just set a policy and he immediately attempted a workaround. Let's have the free speech discussions debated through representatives. I can agree that violence should be removed by platforms immediately, and that "Stop the Steal" did promote just that.
Here is better explained article on "The Washington Post".[0] P.S. He is also removed from Mastodon[1] too: > The page you were looking for doesn't exist here anymore. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/08/twitter... [1] https://mastodon.social/@realDonaldTrump
When Biden moves to the White House, he should remove Trump's Presidential portrait from the wall. Completely unperson the guy, like he never existed.
Re: Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules
#65So today we had: * Reddit ban a number of pro trump subreddits (details at reddit.com/r/reclassified) * Twitter permanently bans Trump and a number of other influential conservative accounts * Discord has banned the donald win discord * Google banned Parler from the Play Store * Apple is strongly considering to do the same This will go down as a very important day in American Internet history. A very important week i…
Perhaps slightly less politically, Twitter also hits Sci-Hub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25684838
Re: Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules
#66Something that isn't being talked about anymore: Trump chose twitter. He chose to stay on it, to use his personal account, to use it as his primary method of communication. US presidents have the biggest, loudest loudspeakers available at their fingertips. Obama's administration had a whole protocol about how to use Twitter as one of their official comms medium and not have it be a de facto one. Biden is so far follo…
Twitter doesn't have too much power. I think that will become clear over the next couple years.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disagree that presidential power should bleed into private companies. He entered into a contract with Twitter, broke it, and Twitter ended things on their side.
> He entered into a contract with Twitter, broke it, and Twitter ended things on their side. I agree, and I'm not saying that Twitter acted in the wrong here. Imagine a hypothetical scenario where Dorsey threatens a president to say or not say something under penalty of deplatforming. That's a pretty significant lever to have over POTUS. That's the point I'm trying to make here.
In that case, the President will hold a press conference and ger coverage from every TV and YouTubel Channel and Facebook page, not to mention tens of thousands of Twitter users.
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#69I will never understand why small amount of tech companies should decide who goes into public who not.
Instead of a small amount of broadcast companies? As long as mass communication is mediated by corporations, we give them this control - and the alternative is systems without any control whatsoever (for better and very much also for worse).
Ultimately, Twitter gave dt a platform, and so it’s theirs to take away.
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#70Can't have someone actively avoiding a ban tweet from your handle. Oh well the game of whack-a-mole for Twitter continues!
It looks like he also tried to requisition a staffers personal account, getting them suspended too