Twitter accused of double standards over ban on tweets wishing death on Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/03/twitter-faces-backlash-over-abuse-policy-in-wake-of-trump-illness

by iron0013 • 6 years ago

38 12 6 years ago

aaron6952• 6 years ago

I think it's indicative on the Left after 6 months telling people it's not about you, it's the other people you kill, this shows they don't truly believe what they have been preaching.

The closer he goes to death the riskier a carrier he is.

Not that wishing death on someone is actually a death threat or anything real, does Twitter think all those Amharic Curses are real as well?

perl4ever• 6 years ago

Inductive? Resistive? ...?

Also, are we capitalizing Left now?

alternatetwo• 6 years ago

Also, what left? The US doesn't have a relevant political left.

JaimeThompson• 6 years ago

The Left, the Right, the Middle, the whatever are not singular entities with a single mind an purpose. To me such generalizations really do not help people discuss such topics.

aaron6952• 6 years ago

This is a 100% political post, so flag it as it should by HN rules or get dirty and talk left and right politics.

I understand the tactic of denying the left or antifa don't exist.

But the fact HN falls for these stoner teenager properganda ideas is a problem. Sure, nothing is actually real. It's all inspecific cultural artifacts created by out meat computers. But then nothing actually matters including believing it's real.

To the article, there is nothing factual in this article. No statistics or graphs or data just left bent politics.

Barrin922• 6 years ago

I think twitter and other social media platforms are generally in a pretty bad state in this regard. Those websites don't have a two-class system for users, everyone signs the same TOS.

Celebrities or the president should get the exact same treatment anyone else gets, because Trump on twitter is literally just Donald Trump, not the president. If he wants to speak ex cathedra, he has official channels for that purpose.

WatchDog• 6 years ago

I don't use Twitter, but it appears to very much so have a two class system. Blue check marked people have a quite different experience to regular users.

jpab• 6 years ago

Trump on twitter is literally just Donald Trump, not the president.

There has been a specific legal battle about almost exactly this question. So far, the US court system disagrees with you.

"These tweets are published by a public official clothed with the authority of the state using social media as a tool of governance and as an official channel of communication on an interactive public platform," [2nd circuit] appeals court Judge Barrington Parker wrote.

Trump is appealing that outcome though.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/20/donal...

Barrin922• 6 years ago

I'm not American so I wasn't aware of the legal battle, or the precise law, but I agree with this statement from the article

""By ignoring the critical distinction between the president’s (sometimes) official statements on Twitter and his always personal decision to block respondents from his own account, the opinion blurs the line between state action and private conduct," Wall said in asking the Supreme Court to hear the case."

The role of the presidential office and the private citizen Trump should not be treated as synonymous. Of course Trump is probably the worst particular case here because he blurs the line intentionally. For the reason outlined in the argument Trump ought to communicate through official channels and users on twitter should all be subject to the same rules. Or alternatively we acknowledge that Twitter is now the public square which means nobody gets to ban anyone else.

atonse• 6 years ago

Not that I support their policy but let’s be honest, before Trump, Twitter was languishing and totally stagnating when compared to Facebook. They owe their resurgence to Trump and other extremists on both sides.

They’re never going to kill the golden goose.

esotericimpl• 6 years ago

As soon as he starts claiming (with zero evidence) voter fraud and instigating insurrection against president elect joe Biden, I guarantee Twitter will be ban him before Biden’s swearing in.

Twitter accused of double standards over ban on tweets wishing death on Trump

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