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Post by eggnet »

newZWhoDis wrote: post #381
romellem wrote: post #296

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Did you read your own source? The Biden team never asked Twitter staff to “handle” anything. They forwarded tweets that [violated twitter’s ToS][1], a Twitter staff member forwarded them for review, and at that point the reviewer said they “handled these.” That’s what content moderation is supposed to do! [1]: https://twitter.com/parkebench/status/1598841731763810304

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Who is Tony in this analogy? Trump was president at the time, and had threatened Zelensky to improve his election chances.

Twitter was supposed to fear Biden?

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Post by _8j50 »

Dig1t wrote: post #118
andreyk wrote: post #108

It does not seem like this really exposed any new information - Twitter publicly justified its actions as being about its hacked data policy back when this all happened ( https://www.nationalreview.com/news/twitter-cites-hacked-mat... ). All this shows is some internal disagreement as to whether that was the right call. By the way, Facebook also suppressed the news story citing its misinformation policy ( https://www…

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064 Biden team asking Twitter to "handle" tweets they don't like. This rubs me the wrong way, nobody in government should be telling Twitter to remove speech.

Why not? It was a request not a demand. After 2016, I really hope politicians are asking social media companies to review dangerous bullshit, twitter is free to look at the content and deny politician's requests. And I mean for any country's politicians. Civil wars and genocides have started and happened on and as a result of twitter and fb's lack of moderation relating to political content.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by djur »

hgfdhgdfhgdf wrote: post #583
fzeroracer wrote: post #151

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Did you bother looking over the content of those tweets? You can go to archive.org right now and see what was 'censored', but I recommend not doing so at work. Or you can look at my prior posts instead for an explanation. It should come at no surprise that high profile users of twitter (government, celebs etc) can make requests to have content that clearly violates the twitter ToS removed and are served with higher p…

Why aren't the Taliban banned? They used Twitter to take control of Afghanistan [1] [1] https://ischool.umd.edu/news/how-taliban-used-twitter-to-tak...

Is the Taliban posting nude pictures of people without their consent?

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by djur »

mc32 wrote: post #449
Aeolun wrote: post #280

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So in a way Elon taking over is good. At least it’s abundantly clear the whole platform is run based on his personal whims now.

It'd be great if Elon published all removal requests coming in from political operatives, public figures and PR firms. Commandeer one of the myriad bot accounts and turn it into an automated take-down-request publishing-bot.

Why should anybody trust that the feed was complete and that favored individuals or organizations weren't filtered out?

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Post by noncoml »

_8j50 wrote: post #610

Why is this propaganda bullshit on the front page. I gotta ask about moderation on HN here. This is literally moderation, "the twitter files" my ass. They pretext political contributions and falsley connect legitimate moderation to that. Of course they should have blocked that story and still should. Oh, but get this, it's their platform they get to do what they want. They are not an impartial government agency. In t…

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Post by mikaeluman »

It is to Elon's credit that this comes to light. My trust in twitter was gone back in 2018. The covid situation and the election certainly did not help.

Here we get to see the unhealthy intermingling of political agents with a supposed social media platform.

The end result of that has been detrimental to users, free speech and public debate.

I always thought Elon was "too much", but his handling of Twitter is absolutely perfect.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by runsWphotons »

code_witch_sam wrote: post #500
starkd wrote: post #135

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Exactly. The fact so many don't understand this is discouraging. Just because you support a particular candidate shouldn't mean it is ok, because it could very easily go against you on another occasion. There needs to be a uniform standard and accountability for this.

what does a particular politician have to do with this? the "leak" literally said both the trump white house and the biden campaign lobbied to have posts removed i think it's kind of funny that the government is lobbying corporation now, rather than the other way around.

"lobbied". this is mob stuff!

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Post by throwaway0x7E6 »

_8j50 wrote: post #610

Why is this propaganda bullshit on the front page. I gotta ask about moderation on HN here. This is literally moderation, "the twitter files" my ass. They pretext political contributions and falsley connect legitimate moderation to that. Of course they should have blocked that story and still should. Oh, but get this, it's their platform they get to do what they want. They are not an impartial government agency. In t…

>Oh, but get this, it's their platform they get to do what they want.

now it's Musk's platform and he gets to do whatever he wants

you're cool with that, right?

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Post by sva_ »

_8j50 wrote: post #610

Why is this propaganda bullshit on the front page. I gotta ask about moderation on HN here. This is literally moderation, "the twitter files" my ass. They pretext political contributions and falsley connect legitimate moderation to that. Of course they should have blocked that story and still should. Oh, but get this, it's their platform they get to do what they want. They are not an impartial government agency. In t…

Man, this 2-party system in the US really made some brains rot away, it seems.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by akomtu »

_8j50 wrote: post #610

Why is this propaganda bullshit on the front page. I gotta ask about moderation on HN here. This is literally moderation, "the twitter files" my ass. They pretext political contributions and falsley connect legitimate moderation to that. Of course they should have blocked that story and still should. Oh, but get this, it's their platform they get to do what they want. They are not an impartial government agency. In t…

It's on the front page because the majority wants it to be.

> it's their platform they get to do what they want

And so is HN.

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