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The reality is that Tweets are broadcasted to billions of people. No, they're not. You have to visit the Twitter website or otherwise pull the data from some s
by gamblor956 6y ago
The reality is that Tweets are broadcasted to billions of people.
No, they're not. You have to visit the Twitter website or otherwise pull the data from some source to get tweets.
it’s about ethics and morals and how we compose a society with mighty power imbalances, fortified by new tech.
It's technically trivial to create your own Twitter. There are indeed plenty of competitors to Twitter. Twitter has no moral or ethical obligation to carry lies. Indeed, the opposite is true: because of their market position, they should be ethically and morally obligated to prevent lies from being spread through their platform because they have the greatest reach.
- Mirioron 6y ago>No, they're not. You have to visit the Twitter website or otherwise pull the data from some source to get tweets. Would you make this same argument when it comes to privacy? Technically it's your computer sending your data to Google/Facebook, therefore you are giving them permission to use your data, because you're so generously providing it to them. Technically this is true and any real privacy solution would have to address this point, but it's clearly not what is done in legislation.
- gamblor956 6y agoI don't understand your point. When you send your data to Google or Facebook by explicitly providing that data, you are giving them permission to use that data for purposes of providing the service for which the data is granted. This is true everywhere, even in the EU. If you're asking whether that upload would grant Googlebook broader rights to use your data, then the answer is yes in the US because there are no laws currently restricting such use, but no in Europe because EU law says permission must be explicitly granted for other uses.