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What I find interesting, is the sudden power Twitter just realised they have. Imagine this, they are one button away from taking away the US president main mea
by firefoxd 9y ago
What I find interesting, is the sudden power Twitter just realised they have.
Imagine this, they are one button away from taking away the US president main mean of communication.
This is akin to a country doing a military parade, showing off their arms.
- rtpg 9y agoI get that Trump used Twitter a lot but he does have a press office where actual stuff happens.
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoThe whole scandal though is that he actively dodges the WHPC to distribute information.
- Johnny555 9y agoAnd just a few sentences away from declaring war. If someone took over Trump's twitter and detailed how bombers were in-route to take out North Korea's nuclear capability, would Kim Jong Un wait for independent confirmation before he launched his missile(s)?
- throwaway613834 9y agoThis was really scary to read. I'd never realized this.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoNever before has "2FA enabled" been more relevant.
- synicalx 9y agoSomeone give that man a Yubikey
- liberte82 9y agoWell it's not just hackers we have to worry about though, but employees.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoThat's a compliance/governance issue. Working for a financial services utility in risk management, I would be shocked if any startup can do this properly.
- tantalor 9y agoTwitter is no startup.
- toomuchtodo 9y ago“I would be shocked if any large immature tech company does it right” is what I should have said.
- rbanffy 9y agoIsn't it terribly irresponsible then to allow a service that's subject to such issues become the main form of communication for a government?
- Gargoyle 9y agoShow off those arms too much and regulation will come down on them like a ton of bricks. Just because Washington has been mostly hands off doesn't mean that will continue.
- Jtsummers 9y agoWhat do you think Washington would do? What power do you think they hold over Twitter in this case?
- 013a 9y agoWhat would Washington do if they passed this bill and Twitter said "No, we aren't following it"? Fines. Deploying US Marshals to their headquarters and server farms. Arresting high level executives. So that's the worst case; the reality will be somewhere between that and doing nothing. Within the bounds of the Constitution, Washington can regulate however its people's representatives see fit. Over the past 20 years, most people have sided with companies like Google and Facebook because they produce products that are amazing and addicting. This tide is changing; their products are becoming less and less novel, and its becoming increasingly apparent that horribly few of these companies act with any sense of ethical responsibility or discretion.
- stanmancan 9y agoI can’t help but think the better option would be a bill saying that POTUS needs to stay off social media, no?
- Karunamon 9y agoHe also has freedom of speech.
- stanmancan 9y agoSaying the POTUS can't use twitter is not taking away their freedom of speech -- it's putting controls around what mediums they're allowed to exercise their freedom of speech. Kinda like how they're not supposed to run their own mail server. Do you really think it's in the nations best interest that _Twitter_ is being treated as an official source of news from the POTUS?
- angersock 9y agoAlready admitted allegedly to doing some odd coverups for HRC: https://swarajyamag.com/insta/twitter-censored-hashtags-critical-of-hillary-clinton-during-us-election-is-india-next https://swarajyamag.com/insta/twitter-censored-hashtags-crit...