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Given that today was the White House's "Social Media Summit", no doubt there will be a few conspiracies floated. I'm betting "Twitter wanted to block out all th
by danso 7y ago
Given that today was the White House's "Social Media Summit", no doubt there will be a few conspiracies floated. I'm betting "Twitter wanted to block out all the criticism coming form the summit!" will be a popular one.
- indigochill 7y agoI've got a couple conspiracy theories at the moment: 1. It's a deployment of some infrastructure change the government got the big tech companies to sign onto. 2. It's a "shot across the bow" from some external party to demonstrate their control over major infrastructure. 2.a. Also could have been a mix of 1 and 2. The government orchestrated the outages in order to add fuel to the hysteria over Chinese "spy chips". However, given the story every time seems to be "Someone goofed a configuration", this theory doesn't seem to have much life left in it.
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- cabaalis 7y agoMy conspiracy theory: The dehumanization regex was found to match too many non-conservatives, prompting a rollback that failed.
- YinglingLight 7y agoNah that's low level conspiracies. The new tier are in the vein "Twitter/Facebook/Google is currently being raided and forced to copy over DBs for an ongoing investigation into surveillance/censorship/pizza/Molochworship".