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...as someone who is oblivious to these things (only knew it was a "thing" last night)...can someone explain why this is harmful and not just people wasting tim
by beauzero 8y ago
...as someone who is oblivious to these things (only knew it was a "thing" last night)...can someone explain why this is harmful and not just people wasting time?
- avaer 8y agoFrom the article, spreading misleading voter information, which could cause voters to miss the date.
- abnry 8y agoSigh. So people who would normally vote liberal are now going to vote on the wrong day because they got the election day date from a troll account mocking their liberal position--and they didn't bother to remember that elections are always on Tuesdays or to use google?
- pcbro141 8y agoI guess Twitter found the potential negatives of allowing voter suppression campaigns on their platform (no matter how ineffectual you think they are) are greater than the benefits of allowing people to carry them out 'because free speech.'
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- Meai 8y agoIt's just an elaborate form of calling somebody stupid by implying that they don't consciously think about their decisions by means of having an inner dialogue. For twitter to ban this is weird but hey, I guess they are moving more towards the european model of free speech if they aren't already there.
- rc_bhg 8y agoIt's basically propaganda. Propaganda is generally agreed to be a bad thing for a true democracy.
- Carlton87 8y agoHow in the world is criticizing the capacity of a persons ability to critically think by using memes Propaganda. I'm right wing and I find the boxed responses from leftest to line up with some of the NPC stuff I saw.
- qubax 8y agoActually, propaganda is agreed to be a good thing for a democracy. It's why we have free press and free speech laws. Many of the founders ran printing presses or newspapers to push their own propaganda. The most prominent being alexander hamilton and the NY Post. What is bad for democracy is censorship ( aka one sided propaganda ).
- WillPostForFood 8y agoIt is no more propaganda than #maga or #orangecheeto or #impeachtrump. It is political satire and commentary.
- ihalip 8y agoPropaganda for what?
- rtkwe 8y ago> These accounts posed as liberal activists and were used to spread — among other things — false information about November’s midterm elections Which violates the Twitter policy against intentionally misleading election content. Pretty straight forward.
- andun 8y agoPretty sure like 0.001% of those accounts did that. But it's a good excuse, granted. I think the real reason they got banned is that under every tweet of every blue-checkmark liberal on Twitter you'd find dozens of replies of accounts called NPC209834029 with the same avatar nodding and saying the same platitudes. But of course, when all the replies to all Trump tweets are from blue-checkmarks shitting on him, Twitter doesn't seem to care. :P I think neither should be banned, but I guess they know better.
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- WillPostForFood 8y agoSo basically satire banned on Twitter, if it comes from the right. These accounts were in no way misleading; one would never confuse them for actual liberal activists.
- rtkwe 8y agoThere's plenty of satire left out there. What isn't satire or useful is misleading information about how/when to vote etc.
- raxxorrax 8y agoWhile your answer is reducible to "yes" in this case, I think the NPC meme is just the inverted Russian bot meme. If one qualifies as misleading information, the other should be scrutinized as well. Although the NPC case is probably about some random people on twitter that like to make fun of some targets, the story about Russians seems to have more involved actors.
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