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

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Post by scaredtobeme »

QuercusMax wrote: post #382
lykahb wrote: post #351

The 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.

It has as least as much to do with not fact-checking the claims of people you agree with. Politics is replete with lies. Remember "all 17 intelligence agencies"?

The idea of neutral just-calling-balls-and-strikes fact-checking in politics is a fantasy. The only thing that actually works is debate.

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

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Post by Simulacra »

partiallypro wrote: post #333

Twitter 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…

Only so much as the media and government lets twitter have this within their rights. If it was Peter Theil running Twitter, I don't believe we would see the same reaction from the media.

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

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Post by ViViDboarder »

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

The first direct link you posted is a RT if someone saying that their friend was arrested for exactly this. https://twitter.com/swoIIens/status/1266247882652278785

It sounds like you’re confirming OPs point, not refuting it.

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

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Post by sushid »

lykahb wrote: post #351

The 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…

Online hosting or financial providers have never been "neutral."

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

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Post by druddha »

Simulacra wrote: post #537
fortran77 wrote: post #529

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends on who and what. And it's the inconsistency that will fuel the critics. They didn't suspend Spike Lee who caused direct harm to a private individual who happened to share a name with an infamous individual: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/spike-lee-settles-twi...

Because suspending Spike Lee would have required someone at Twitter to make that decision, and they're not going to do that. But will leap at the chance for Trump. It's been a clear double standard for years.

If they were going to "leap at the chance" to suspend Trump, then why haven't they already? He's been treading in the grey area of their ToS for years.

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

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Post by vmh1928 »

partiallypro wrote: post #333

Twitter 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…

There's also the question of who it is that is predicting violence (or giving a dog whistle signal to his followers that violence is OK.) This is not a blue check mark living in his mom's basement predicting (or asking) for violence, it's the chief executive of the United States.

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

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Post by tathougies »

tomp wrote: post #171

This is amazing news, and I hope Twitter adopts this policy for all rules violations. Much better than deleting tweet or banning accounts, this lets people decide what they want to see. (Except for obvious spammers etc. which should probably be banned.) Even better would be if there were user-configurable "lists", whereby you could decide upfront what you want / don't want to see (like many sites do right now with NS…

Youre right. Before twitter took this step I was unable to decide whether to read the president's tweets. Every morning I am forced by twitter to read trumps tweets. Thank goodness this is no longer the case. /s

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

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #340
vowelless wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also don’t forget that Hamas has many official twitter accounts in various languages.

Have they posted suggestions of shooting their own citizens and not been sanctioned by Twitter?

Why draw the line at "their own citizens"? Have they posted suggestions of shooting people who aren't their own citizens?

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Post by fzeroracer »

darepublic wrote: post #573

As someone of mixed ethnicity who, if I was there could easily be victimized by a senseless mob to whom I owe nothing and have committed no crime against.. yea I am not happy with how the mainstream media promotes and covers this story, downplaying the victims of the chaos and sympathizing with outpourings of anger even if illegal. To clarify, looters should not be shot, law should prevail, and the policeman involved…

This entire event is effectively self-defense from a community that has felt terrorized by the police for decades.

It could've been easily prevented by actually arresting someone that committed abject murder, but the city and the police chose to instead defend a man who has killed multiple people in the past and got away with it scott-free. So when people feel like justice no longer exists, there should be no surprise that they get angry.

It doesn't help that the police also employ agent provocateurs whom help incite riots and looting so that they can use more violent tactics with glee.

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

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Post by tathougies »

osobo wrote: post #152
knowaveragejoe wrote: post #21

Good, and frankly they should have been doing this sort of thing sooner.

I'm guessing they had been holding back until the campaigning season started. Now they get maximum impact.

End corporate involvement in politics! Oh wait... Its okay if they attack republicans. /s
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