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All because of a private company tagging misinformation designed to disenfranchise voters on their own platform. Here's the actual EO because of the paywall: h

by djaque 6y ago

All because of a private company tagging misinformation designed to disenfranchise voters on their own platform. Here's the actual EO because of the paywall: https://kateklonick.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DRAFT-EO-Preventing-Online-Censorship.pdf https://kateklonick.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DRAFT-EO-... It's another attention grab to distract from the real issues. Something like >75% of restaurants in my small town aren't expected to survive. This isn't doing them any good.

djaque 6y ago
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- themgt 6y ago
  The EO says "The Attorney General shall establish a working group" to look at potential "unfair and deceptive acts and practices" by online platforms, and lists as an example of such an act "monitoring or creating watch-lists of users" etc. Ironically, your post's complete misrepresentation of what the EO says is the sort of thing Twitter should presumably want to append a fact check to.
  - djaque 6y ago
    Woops, that's my fault for reading too quickly. After going over it a couple of more times I agree that your reading is probably more inline with what they meant. In fairness, they're kind of missing a few verbs there and that ambiguity makes it difficult to nail down. I'll get rid of my previous post.
basementcat 6y ago
The private company tagged an official statement from the Executive Branch of the USA Federal Government. The American people in 2016 (by selecting a particular individual for Head of State) specifically expressed a desire to receive official government communications in this manner.
- aspenmayer 6y ago
  All content on Twitter is shown to you as the poster wrote it, but that is about the only guarantee you have as a poster or reader on Twitter. If tweets are removed, they are removed entirely, not edited. How the UI frames any given post is not user-configurable and never was. I don’t see why or how Twitter decorates or annotates posts is relevant. The content was not altered. The context may have been, but it’s Twitter’s site, and that is their prerogative.
noobaccount 6y ago
It’s editorial conduct. EO looks fantastic. I don’t support Donald Trump, but I support this action.
FreedomThinker 6y ago
>Something like >75% of restaurants in my small town aren't expected to survive. This isn't doing them any good. Exactly. We need to re-open the country again.

by djaque 6y ago

djaque 6y ago

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themgt 6y ago
The EO says "The Attorney General shall establish a working group" to look at potential "unfair and deceptive acts and practices" by online platforms, and lists as an example of such an act "monitoring or creating watch-lists of users" etc. Ironically, your post's complete misrepresentation of what the EO says is the sort of thing Twitter should presumably want to append a fact check to.
- djaque 6y ago
  Woops, that's my fault for reading too quickly. After going over it a couple of more times I agree that your reading is probably more inline with what they meant. In fairness, they're kind of missing a few verbs there and that ambiguity makes it difficult to nail down. I'll get rid of my previous post.

basementcat 6y ago

The private company tagged an official statement from the Executive Branch of the USA Federal Government. The American people in 2016 (by selecting a particular individual for Head of State) specifically expressed a desire to receive official government communications in this manner.

aspenmayer 6y ago
All content on Twitter is shown to you as the poster wrote it, but that is about the only guarantee you have as a poster or reader on Twitter. If tweets are removed, they are removed entirely, not edited. How the UI frames any given post is not user-configurable and never was. I don’t see why or how Twitter decorates or annotates posts is relevant. The content was not altered. The context may have been, but it’s Twitter’s site, and that is their prerogative.

noobaccount 6y ago

It’s editorial conduct. EO looks fantastic. I don’t support Donald Trump, but I support this action.

FreedomThinker 6y ago

>Something like >75% of restaurants in my small town aren't expected to survive. This isn't doing them any good. Exactly. We need to re-open the country again.