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Jack Dorsey has spoken about this on Joe Rogan's podcast, and he basically says that it was a judgement call where they weighed the public interest in the twee
by daenz 6y ago
Jack Dorsey has spoken about this on Joe Rogan's podcast, and he basically says that it was a judgement call where they weighed the public interest in the tweets against the violations of the tweets.
EDIT>> I dug up the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K571_jqnCpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K571_jqnCpM
- austincheney 6y agoDid Dorsey clarify what he meant by public interests? That sounds like a vague distraction.
- colinmorelli 6y agoI think "preserving the words of the president" probably fits pretty squarely in the realm of public interest, even if they're blatantly false.
- jeffbee 6y agoGiving him a platform in the first place is what necessitates the consequent fact checking. If they didn't distribute his lies they wouldn't need to contradict them. Many media outlets have stopped airing Trump's statements live, because doing so is essentially unethical.
- wwright 6y agoRemoving it from the normal tweet status is separate from preserving them. They could archive them and disable replies, retweets, quotes, and so on. They could remove it from feeds. They could frame it differently.
- groby_b 6y agoNot really, no. That's the WH's obligation, not Twitter's. Jack Dorsey's public interest is increasing engagement and making money. That's it.
- inimino 6y agoEspecially if, I would say.
- HumblyTossed 6y agoThat's not Twitter's job. There are people who are supposed to do this.
- colinmorelli 6y agoWhen you have become one of the de-facto news sources for a sizable portion of the population, it does sort of become your job. Whether it’s good that they have become a news source or not is a valid question. But right now, they are, and I think preserving the president’s tweets seems like a pretty easily defensible decision. Even if it is also (or primarily) motivated by their own business interests.
- austincheney 6y agoDo you need Twitter to preserve the words of the President, though? Rephrasing, can the President’s words be preserved just as well without Twitter? If the answer is yes then Twitter isn’t performing the civil service it claims as it is not an archival medium.
- aaaaaaaaaaa10 6y agoI know for a fact my aunt mails in ballots for her husband, her father and her mother. Claiming that there is no mail-in voter fraud among 300 million Americans is quite absurd in my opinion.
- fzeroracer 6y agoSo assuming this is true, two things. One, why haven't you reported your aunt for voter fraud? Voter fraud is a very serious issue and it seems to me that you're letting a criminal go free. This can be easily verified by telling the government and having the three others confirm who they voted for. For two, if she is mailing in the ballots, then is she forging their signature as well as collecting their SSNs? Or are they simply signing on the ballots themselves agreeing to the votes? In which case is that truly fraud or not? If she's forging signatures then she's also committing identity theft which is a very serious issue, one that I hope you agree deserves reporting.
- odkamkfn 6y agoSnitches get cross stitches. Don't report your family - talk to them.
- austincheney 6y agoI joke with my kids that it’s snitches get ditches to amp up the nonsense level.
- colinmorelli 6y agoI didn’t say there’s zero voter fraud. I said his tweet, which suggests that more mail in ballots will lead to “substantial fraud” is false. That said, perhaps “unsubstantiated” is a better description.
- totalZero 6y agoIt's a bit absurd when claims of rampant mail-in voter fraud come without evidence from a New Yorker in the District of Columbia who votes in Florida by mail.
- HumblyTossed 6y agoAs part of the public, I would rather my President's tweets not be lies, half truths and flat out nastiness.
- Shish2k 6y agoAlas, this is what The People democratically voted for; and with our current voting system, the will of us 49% who don’t want to hear it counts for nothing u_u
- bosswipe 6y ago53.9% of us voted against Trump.
- daenz 6y agoof the 58% of eligible voters who actually voted.
- dTal 6y agoImplying...?
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoFraud!
- SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago31.3% of the eligible population voted against Trump. 26.7% voted for him.
- Soulsbane 6y agoExactly! He didn't win the popular vote.
- krapp 6y ago
- jccalhoun 6y agoAnd by public interest he means the valuation of his company when all the Trump fans revolt and leave twitter.
- thomascgalvin 6y agoYou can make a genuine case that it's important for the American people to have open proof that their President is an unhinged shitheal actively courting neo-nazis in his bid to undo all progress that has been made in this country in the past fifty years.
- FriendlyNormie 6y agoHang yourself redditor faggot.
- cmurf 6y agoThat is inevitable. Trump will one day not be president. And one day while not president he will bitch tweet in a way that dramatically and clearly violates the terms of service. Twitter will have reached its Rubicon with respect to Trump and the public interest / head of state exception they've carved out, and they'll have to make a permanent decision.
- Marsymars 6y agoMy fantasy is that the day Trump stops being president, Twitter bans him with no explanation or comment.