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Trump criticizing Twitter for shadow banning
- thebiglebrewski 8y agoWhy the hell does Twitter even allow Trump at all? He's violated their TOS so many times I can't even. I report him all the time but for some reason his account still exists.
- izzydata 8y agoWe need every Twitter employee to quit 1 at a time and ban Trump on there way out the door.
- steveeq1 8y agowhat specifically did he do to violate TOS?
- thebiglebrewski 8y agohttps://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-twitter-account-violation-of-twitter-terms-of-service https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-twitter-account-violat... "Threatening to nuke someone is a 'violent threat,' no?"
- Someone1234 8y ago- https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules See Abusive Behavior; You may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so. We consider abusive behavior an attempt to harass, intimidate, or silence someone else’s voice. See Violence and physical harm; You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people. See Threats to expose / hack; You may not threaten to expose someone’s private information or intimate media. You also may not threaten to hack or break into someone’s digital information.
- thebiglebrewski 8y agoThank you!
- steveeq1 8y agomeh, rappers do this all the time.
- nailer 8y agoPosting the ToS doesn't answer the question. - Are you saying that Trump threatening the North Korean leadership is a ToS violation? - Would you say that Obama threatening the Syrian leadership is a ToS violation? I like Obama a hell of a lot more than Trump but if you're going to ban military leaders (which includes most heads of state) you have to do it consistently to avoid accusations of bias.
- Someone1234 8y agoTwitter's own rules set out what does and does not violate the rules. My opinion is irrelevant.
- nailer 8y agoI know you don't work for Twitter, but the point is Twitter has to be consistent if they want to be seen as an unbiased discussion platform. If Twitter believe a military leader stating consequences to a foreign regime, or a law officer lawfully stating consequences of breaking the law consistitutes a threat against a group of people, they need to ban all military and police from the platform. Alternatively, they could state that conducting lawful military and police work, which includes stating the possibility of a response to an action, is not considered a threat. Or that a 'government' or 'people who have broken the law' are not a protected group.
- morcheeba 8y agoThat's classic whataboutism. Obama has nothing to do with this.
- havermeyer 8y agoPoliticians play by a different set of rules: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/world-leaders-and-twitter.html https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/.... From the blog: > Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate. It would also not silence that leader, but it would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions.
- thebiglebrewski 8y agoSounds like an easy way out of taking a stand from the spineless, "@jack" and his ilk.
- holtalanm 8y ago``` Twitter “SHADOW BANNING” prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints. ``` What kind of idiotic crap is this? Twitter is a private company, they can control what is on their site in any way they see fit. Shadow banning, while potentially destructive to the reputation of the company, is in no way illegal. We have a moron for President.
- purephase 8y agoIt's just manufactured outrage. We need to collectively ignore this nonsense. It's intended to distract.
- pmarreck 8y agoI'm no Trump fan but shadow-banning is one of the worst practices in online discussion forums IMHO. That said, Trump has gotten a free pass countless times on violating Twitter's TOS so if anyone actually deserves a shadowban...
- nailer 8y agoWhen did Trump violate the ToS?
- thebiglebrewski 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617221
- nailer 8y agoThat post does not answer the question.
- basch 8y agoExcept if you look at this, Vice used the wrong word. People were not shadow banned, they were not excluded from participation. They were delisted in search. The article should read "Conservatives delisted from some twitter search indices."