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the life of a politically inconvenient story: 1. it's conspiracy theory 2. it was obvious to everyone 3. forgotten

I don't understand why this is a story to begin with. Twitter is a private company that does what it wants. It can boot or block whoever or whatever story they want to for whatever reason. Obviously if the people running the site lean towards one political direction, that's going to affect their moderation policies. Why don't we analyze Fox News's decision to run or not run certain stories. People's first mistake is…

> Why don't we analyze Fox News's decision to run or not run certain stories.

There is clear distinction between content producers (like TV or newspapers) and platforms (like social networks, Youtube, and others). Content producers produce content with some bias, their consumers have (hopefully) similar bias and everyone is happy. Bias is here, it is editorial policy and nobody is understand it. It has some disadvantages in contrast to unbiased producers, but that is probably unreachable ideal.

With platforms, you have matching content producers and consumers (or just parties trying to communicate) and then you have third party (platform) who 'moderates' the content regardless of whether communicating parties are interested or not. Because it is not supposed to be editorial, it tries to dress it as rule enforcement. But biased rule enforcement is just much less acceptable than biased editorial policy.

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#912

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The irony of that statement is that we're talking about a private company deciding what is or isn't appropriate on its platform, not de jure censorship. It is not Twitter's responsibility to facilitate the Republicans' attempted October Surprise. On the other hand, where Republicans have political power, they are using it restrict speech and rights, by law. "Both sides" are not the same.

This grants that Twitter is partisan though.

Twitter also removed posts at the behest of Trump’s team. But I will say they definitely lean left, which everyone knew.

Re: The Twitter Files

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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.

Only some that are complaining. Most are happy to have propaganda removed.

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I'm a moderate, not a Democrat and not a Republican. I think people on the left have a blind spot here, that the more suppression they use, the more division they create, and the more moderates and people on the right grow to resent them. I would have identified as a Democrat on pretty much every issue, but this authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas has just pushed me away from that side completely. At this p…

The tweets the Biden campaign asked Twitter to take down (you can verify this yourself) were all non consentual intimate images of Hunter. That is both against the Twitter ToS, hence flagging to them, and illegal in 48 states + DC, including California, where Twitter is based.

Re: The Twitter Files

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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…

Compared to a couple of years back there are a lot more clearly right-leaning, neither well-read nor well-informed voices on HN. This is not the first thread with a very questionable hivemind leading the conversation.

More and more people are getting captured by their echo chambers, and as we get older it's almost impossible to get out for some reason. Case in point Elon, who like Trump seems now to be completely addicted to the dopamine hits from his most devoted fans' tweet replies. They are steering him further and further off the rails.

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#917

> Twitter in its conception was a brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making a true real-time global conversation possible for the first time. This is grandiose sounding rubbish. The moment when I experienced real-time global conversation was when I compiled an IRC client on a Unix box in maybe 1992 or 1993, joined some channel, and it turned out the person chatting with me there was in Australia.…

For political reasons he needs it to be more than a very popular private service. He needs it to be an essential public utility.

Re: The Twitter Files

#918

Just a couple weeks ago I had a comment downvoted and flagged for saying what this confirms. The political bias in tech circles is unreal sometimes.

I'm surprised HN isn't flagging and downvoting the comments supporting the content, since it remains misinformation (if not downright disinformation).

The comments discussing process (was this appropriate moderation?) are much more in line with my experience in the community.

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#919

This is certainly the kind of transparency twitter needs to regain it's appearance of neutrality. It's some well-played PR for the platform at least.

Blocking DMs from sharing URLs to a mainstream news story is CCP-level censorship. I'd expect to read about this happening on WeChat, not here. Yet here we are.

I thought it was CP level censorship.

Re: The Twitter Files

#920

Am I the only one who thinks its pretty fucked up of the business owner to be like, "oh, Hunter Biden left his laptop here? Might as well... give it to the New York Post" Like wtf?

Yep. Reads like a planted and/or made up thang.

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