based on the comments here civil war 2.0 is going to lit af frfr; its going to be bussin
The Twitter Files
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#952It's kind of interesting in the sense that reading internal emails is always kind of interesting...but otherwise, nothing here seems particularly shocking or groundbreaking. The only real revelation here seems to be that there existed some internal debate whether or not blocking the story was a good idea, which seems...kind of obvious? I'd be more surprised if there wasn't internal debate.
Yeah it's not surprising. We already knew Twitter favors progressivism.
When did it become political to take down non-consensual nudes? It's against California law.
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#953Most 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…
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You have no credibility if you think that they were just "protesting" on Jan 6th.
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#954So, a social media company removed a dick pick? This is the news?
Okay, ELON, "handle" it for us would you now? Let's see which advertiser would love their ad appear right below Hunter Biden's hog. This is unreal stupidity. This is what Elon Musk's time is consumed by? Investigating routine moderation at Twitter and discovering the "secret" 30% Apple App Store tax. Dear Lord.
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#955Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Twitter and the US government collude I see everyone saying this while ignoring the timeline. This happened before the 2020 elections. Biden was not president back then.
Ah yes, Biden the former vice president and 40 year career politician was a political naïf who had no influence whatsoever because he was not in office at the time. Of course.
Biden was a person with considerable influence. But that's not the same as "Twitter and the US government collude." If there is anything most closely matching that phrase, it is the examples of reviews done based on information from the Trump team.
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#956There is another way to look at this. So Elon posted today he would drop important inside info about the Hunter Biden story the right wing loves so much. And they seemed thrilled and are now debating the “new” info. That’s an interesting turn from yesterday when that same group was pissed at him for going back on his free speech/no censorship claims when he kicked Kanye off. How surprisingly lucky for him he did some…
> going back on his free speech/no censorship claims when he kicked Kanye off. What's Elon done here that's inconsistent or hypocritical? He's never claimed to be a free speech absolutist (no-one is a free speech absolutist), nor did he say he was going to turn Twitter into a free-for-all for anyone can post anything with no moderation. Kanye posted literal Nazi content; he clearly violated Twitter's stated policies…
Elon has said a number of times that the only content that should be removed from Twitter is illegal content.
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#957Earlier quoted context omitted.
Taibbi doesn't even say any of that
But that's going to be the narrative. The actual reality doesn't matter, just like the endless gloating these days about the so-called "Russia hoax" - where there was a bunch of shady goings-on between the Trump campaign and the RU gov't who was quite explicit in their desire to work with and assist his campaign. But because it didn't achieve the nigh-impossible feat of a successful impeachment vote by his own party,…
> They're already claiming that Biden, as a private citizen, was an agent of the "deep state" violating the 1st amendment with his shadowy cabal and it's just going to go downhill from here.
I certainly didn't claim that and I have thousands of comments on HN under my real name that you can verify that with. I'd appreciate it if you didn't group me in with whatever "folks" you think I'm affiliated with. For context, the twitter thread said both political parties made requests to remove tweets and ban accounts that were acted upon. And in my own comment I made no reference to specific political parties. Nor am I registered or affiliated with either one.
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#958I am pro-free speech and hope that Congress will investigate this. Having said this, I must say that by associating himself with people like Taibbi, Musk has lost any credibility for me.
Shooting the messenger is a debating strategy as old as time itself.
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#959Earlier quoted context omitted.
It wasn't tenable because the hacked materials policy is for doxing not journalism. Many of the biggest stories broken by NYT and WaPo over the decades have come from hacked/leaked materials. The policy was never meant to prevent these kinds of stories.
So we should let NYPost publish nudes of anyone and everyone they want to, just because? And no one is allowed to call them out on that because Free Speech?
Why do people keep citing this tired already easily refuted line? It was not just about nude pictures. Read a little more about the contents of the laptop and his connection to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma as well as Chinese energy execs. If people had a little more curiosity about the stories and not just the headlines, we might not be on the verge of WWWIII right now in Ukraine.
Forgive me if you don't like Tucker Carlson, but very few are even dare to cover it. Or genuinely refute it without personal insults. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCApIZBdu-0
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#960Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, the rest of the thread was mostly uninteresting documentation of what everyone already knew. I want to know more about what 'handling' tweets means, whether all 'handle' requests were accepted or in which instances did twitter push back, etc.
i'd have to go back again and reread, but was the term "handle" used at all? i remember them asking to "review" some tweets and to measure them against the tos. i very easily could have missed them asking to "handle" it though... i think those semantics matter, which is why i ask.
All Twitter users have the power to report tweets.
It seems like at minimum they are bypassing the reported tweet queue.
It feels likely that these report judgements disproportionately had the outcome desired by the requester. If not all requested tweets got taken down/suspended until deleted that will look a lot better than if this channel effectively allowed unchecked censorship.