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How Conservative Activists Catfished Twitter

25 points by mkeeter 9y ago

olliej 9y ago
Basically conservative group made a fake company so they could record former employees (and break the law by not informing them) talking Ng about their old jobs. They send took them to bars specifically to get around the law that says you can’t record someone without consent. And apparently also made fake romantic interests to get them on dates in public places so again they could record them. They did this to “prove” that Twitter is targeting conservatives for silencing. Rather than asking “why does being conservative require attacking minorities?”
- IanDrake 9y ago
  I don’t understand why your question is phrased that way. I’ve met as many (if not more) liberals who expressed racist ideas as I have conservatives.
  - DanBC 9y ago
    Racists are saying they're being silenced just because they are conservative. That's incorrect. They're being silenced because they're racist. Conservatives should be annoyed about the coopting of the word "conservative" by racists. As you say, many conservatives are not racist (nor sexist; nor homophobic; etc.)
    - IanDrake 9y ago
      I agree, except liberal racist aren’t being silenced (despite being racists) because they are liberal. It’s an odd double standard.
      - olliej 9y ago
        The people getting silenced on a privately owned platform are the ones who are saying group X should not be allowed to have any rights/exist/not be assaulted. It's not a "being racist" it's saying "lgbt people are pesos who should be beaten", "jews are in control of everything (they're not) and should be kicked out of the country". Being generically racist is clearly ok on all these platforms, its saying whole groups should not be treated as humans that seems to be the bar. Liberal bigots tend to censor out their public statements somewhat more -- I don't believe this is an intelligence thing in as much as a learned culture, similar to the whole "being called racist is worse than being racist". But yeah there are all sorts of double standards -- take youtube's nazis are ok, the muslim equivalent isn't, etc etc That said the issue of censorship is always irksome to me, even if it is on private platforms, specifically how are the rules set, how do you avoid forcing stagnation...

25 points by mkeeter 9y ago

Basically conservative group made a fake company so they could record former employees (and break the law by not informing them) talking Ng about their old jobs. They send took them to bars specifically to get around the law that says you can’t record someone without consent. And apparently also made fake romantic interests to get them on dates in public places so again they could record them. They did this to “prove” that Twitter is targeting conservatives for silencing. Rather than asking “why does being conservative require attacking minorities?”

IanDrake 9y ago
I don’t understand why your question is phrased that way. I’ve met as many (if not more) liberals who expressed racist ideas as I have conservatives.
- DanBC 9y ago
  Racists are saying they're being silenced just because they are conservative. That's incorrect. They're being silenced because they're racist. Conservatives should be annoyed about the coopting of the word "conservative" by racists. As you say, many conservatives are not racist (nor sexist; nor homophobic; etc.)
  - IanDrake 9y ago
    I agree, except liberal racist aren’t being silenced (despite being racists) because they are liberal. It’s an odd double standard.
    - olliej 9y ago
      The people getting silenced on a privately owned platform are the ones who are saying group X should not be allowed to have any rights/exist/not be assaulted. It's not a "being racist" it's saying "lgbt people are pesos who should be beaten", "jews are in control of everything (they're not) and should be kicked out of the country". Being generically racist is clearly ok on all these platforms, its saying whole groups should not be treated as humans that seems to be the bar. Liberal bigots tend to censor out their public statements somewhat more -- I don't believe this is an intelligence thing in as much as a learned culture, similar to the whole "being called racist is worse than being racist". But yeah there are all sorts of double standards -- take youtube's nazis are ok, the muslim equivalent isn't, etc etc That said the issue of censorship is always irksome to me, even if it is on private platforms, specifically how are the rules set, how do you avoid forcing stagnation...