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In your scenario: Yes. Is Twitter or any other application layer non-government service on the internet a utility? No. So is this what happened? No. They did
by croon 10y ago
In your scenario: Yes.
Is Twitter or any other application layer non-government service on the internet a utility? No.
So is this what happened? No.
They didn't ban him for his political views, nor are they a utility.
- mieses 10y agoThey did ban him for his political views. But it's clever how you snuck in that one subjective statement into an otherwise objective line of reasoning.
- st3v3r 10y agoThey did not ban him for his political views. They banned him for impersonating tweets of another user, and for leading a harassment campaign against other users. Nothing to do with his political views.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> They did ban him for his political views. No, they banned him for soliciting harassment, not for the views which motivated the solicitation of the harassment.
- mieses 10y agoThat policy is used to silence dissenting opinion. Don't spread this PR. It's equivalent to police claiming they detained you for a broken tail light. Dorsey and his Saudi owners are on a purge.
- NotSammyHagar 10y agoYou have it backwards. I believe you are referring to twitter being used to silence a dissenting opinion when you said "that policy", in reference to Nero. I actually think it's the other way, the bullying sent toward the SNL actresses' way, the sexist and homophobic comments, those were actually meant to silence a dissenting view, someone those people did not like. Stopping bullying is a good thing. No good comes from bullying someone you don't like.
- mieses 10y agoNero's alt-right followers "actually meant" to ridicule her. Twitter actually silenced him.
- tdkl 10y agoThat's why they banned Jones as well. Oh wait, they didn't. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA44q8W_Xt0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA44q8W_Xt0