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> Last week, a trolling campaign organized by right-wing internet users spilled over onto Twitter. So Twitter bans a bunch of satire accounts for political rea
by malvosenior 8y ago
> Last week, a trolling campaign organized by right-wing internet users spilled over onto Twitter.
So Twitter bans a bunch of satire accounts for political reasons and the New York Times applauds the decision. This makes me incredibly sad but I guess it's to be expected.
If your political position is so weak that some jokes can damage it, maybe it's time to take a deep inward look. I don't see anyone calling on SNL to ban Trump impersonations.
- Retric 8y agoFor spreading incorrect election information. Plenty of far right twitter accounts, these where designed to get banned for publicity.
- malvosenior 8y ago> these where designed to get banned for publicity. I don't think they were. I think they were designed to be funny and characterize a particular ideology. As I said in the other comment, this article gives one extremely mild example of incorrect election information and says "a few" of the accounts were participating in that. Why would you ban all of them, including the accounts not spreading misinformation?
- Retric 8y agoNot all of these accounts where banned. But, it's likely they where banning multiple sock puppets from the same users.
- castlecrasher2 8y ago>far right twitter accounts Nazis are everywhere, after all. And wow is it just embarrassing to see this "incorrect election information" thing being touted here. If someone was actually convinced that the election was a day later because they believed an NPC Twitter account they have only themselves to blame.
- Retric 8y agoThat’s not how memory works. You don’t read something say that false and ignore it. You ignore or remember something independent of it’s true and then latter when trying to recall something make an association. So you might recall Election Day, 7th, false or just Election Day, 7th. As Election Day changes (2020 in on the 3rd) many people have a rather weak recall of the date so it’s easy for people to get confused. PS: In terms of politics these Twitter accounts don’t actually have a liberal following so banning them helps republicans.
- rtkwe 8y agoIt's not the jokes and mocking they got the boot for it's spreading intentionally misleading election information like when and how to vote.
- malvosenior 8y agoThe article gives one example and says it was a "few" accounts. Why ban all of them?
- rtkwe 8y agoThey weren't all banned. There's still at least a couple of these NPC satire accounts floating around out there now.
- yAnonymous 8y agoIf you are misled about when the vote is by a tweet from an account with a wojak avatar, it's probably for the better of mankind if you don't vote... or procreate.
- rtkwe 8y agoEugenics is bunk and low information voters are still entitled to their representation and votes.