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Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by ytpete »

ryanbrunner wrote: post #167
Dig1t wrote: post #118

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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.

"Handle" could be "take down tweets on request of the Biden team without review" or "handle this request by the Biden team by considering our current policies and making an independent decision". Neither would be terribly surprising to me, although for sure the first is more damning. But Taibbi hasn't yet provided enough detail to know one way or another. If it is just "prioritize this support request by a VIP" it's…

> Taibbi hasn't yet provided enough detail to know one way or another

The tweets in that citation are mostly available on the Wayback Machine, and 100% of those accessible ones contained frontal nudity: https://twitter.com/Schneider_CM/status/1598829964454858752. So they would have been taken down as a clear ToS violation no matter what.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by oefrha »

noncoml wrote: post #615
_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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> Watch your comment and mine get downvoted to hell and flagged in no time.

I’m anti-Musk if I have to choose a side and I flagged your comment. Don’t do this here.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by gnicholas »

noncoml wrote: post #615
_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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This was actually posted many times before it stuck.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by user764743 »

FormerBandmate wrote: post #442
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.

Say what you want about his handling of Kanye, at the very least it was transparent as fuck. He practically livetweeted his whims

There was nothing transparent about it, he said he suspended Ye's account for promoting violence which was a lie.

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Post by TbobbyZ »

_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…

Users are sick of the bias social media companies have.

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Post by noncoml »

throwaway0x7E6 wrote: post #618
_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?

> you're cool with that, right?

Yes. Just as I don’t watch Fox News, I don’t read Twitter now

And it’s not because they are just biased. It’s because instead of the essence, and discussing using logical arguments, they care more about “owning the libs”.

Plenty of left wing media do this too, not as successfully, and I tend to avoid those as well.

What I’m not cool with are people that idolize corrupted, divisive, self centered, entitled folks like Musk. But I guess HN has many wanna-be-Musks.

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Post by noncoml »

oefrha wrote: post #622
noncoml wrote: post #615

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> Watch your comment and mine get downvoted to hell and flagged in no time. I’m anti-Musk if I have to choose a side and I flagged your comment. Don’t do this here.

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Post by aphroz »

noncoml wrote: post #615
_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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Both sides believe the same thing, being anti-Apple I believed the same on the opposite side but dang is here to watch and he's pretty impartial imho.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by mikaeluman »

Dem_Boys wrote: post #127

Most concerning thing here is that this proves political parties (including the white house[0]) have a direct line to Twitter[1] to get stuff they dislike removed. One would have to assume that there was also a direct line to other social medial platforms. It's so wild to have the slimy-ness of our American political system be revealed in yet another way. So in America you cannot say negative things about political l…

Exactly. And not just in the US, we have had significant indications that the government in Sweden "collaborated" with social media prior to the election.

They lost anyway, but we have no idea what kind of effect they had and what stories were suppressed.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by tomrod »

beaned wrote: post #544
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

They had the former white house press secretary suspended for simply mentioning the hunter biden laptop, was that against the ToS?

If the story was misinformation, why would the sharer's former or current job matter?
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