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Once again! Bravo Jack and the Twitter team! Thank you taking a stand against bullying.
by quietthrow 6y ago
Once again! Bravo Jack and the Twitter team! Thank you taking a stand against bullying.
- antishatter 6y agoNow if only they would crack down on the huge wave of Chinese bullshit they allow.
- dtf 6y agoThey added fact-checks to two of Lijian Zhao’s tweets yesterday. Not sure if that counts as a crackdown, but it’s a high level account. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52833063 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52833063
- koheripbal 6y agoWhether you agree with these actions or not - it doesn't bode well for Twitter. Politicians and other organizations will work to offer up an alternative platform where they won't be censored. These are literally the most powerful people in the world.
- ridewinter 6y agoAhh the beauty of the Internet, where a 16 year old kid can create a platform more powerful than the most powerful people in the world...
- javagram 6y agoAll they have to do is get on gab.com if they want a completely free speech platform. Strangely Trump and his ilk haven’t jumped over to Gab yet. Perhaps because they don’t want to be associated with what actually happens to a platform that allows unrestricted free speech.
- whatever1 6y agoDid any of this bs you refer to come from the president of China directly?
- ianleeclark 6y agoThere's the xenophobia we all know and love. Right in time to steer the conversation from looking inwards.
- sansnomme 6y agoIf you truly believe in what they are doing, then buy their stock and prop up the price, because it is plunging right now. Words alone are about as useful as clapping for healthcare workers.
- dastx 6y agoWouldn't call a 1 percent drop "plunging". Regardless, stock comes back up. These are reputation points that will stay for a while.
- michaeljohansen 6y agoPlunging is a strong word, but this is still an excellent point. Just bought the stock for support.
- devtul 6y agoIs the POTUS clearly inciting violence or is it another instance of people having a wild interpretation of what he said? I'm so tired of this dynamic that I don't even bother anymore.
- throwlaplace 6y agoreally? wild interpretation? it's a weird construction that's widely known to have been used by the police chief during similar circumstances? how big does the donkey have to be before you pin the tail on it? i wager there could be a video of trump composing the tweet with a biography of the police chief in view and open to the page with those words and you'd still claim to doubt the intent. it's exhausting having to take this kind of bad faith skepticism seriously.
- Zecar 6y agoWhy isn't this tweet censored? https://twitter.com/oliviagatwood/status/1266231558047846400 https://twitter.com/oliviagatwood/status/1266231558047846400
- dastx 6y agoJudge for yourself, the exact tweet is: > These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you! Worth noting that this is a quote from former Miami Police Chief Walter Headley. In '67, he said the phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" during racially charged protests.
- sammalloy 6y ago> Is the POTUS clearly inciting violence or is it another instance of people having a wild interpretation of what he said? The POTUS unambiguously quoted racist Miami police chief Walter Headley who called for violence against African Americans during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. This couldn’t be a more clear example of inciting violence.
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- stronglikedan 6y agoNow if only they'd give Kaepernick's tweet [0] equal treatment, to be even-handed. [0] https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/1266046129906552832?s=20 https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/1266046129906552832?s...
- ceejayoz 6y agoThere’s such a thing as a peaceful revolution. Portraying this as similar to the President calling for shooting people is disingenuous.
- ViViDboarder 6y agoI don’t see Kap mentioning shooting anyone in that tweet? Either you linked the wrong one or you’re trying to paint a false equivalence.
- amscanne 6y agoSure reads to me like it’s advocating for violent revolt, albeit far more eloquently. I think this is the fundamental problem: it’s all subjective.
- ViViDboarder 6y agoOne literally says that they will send military and says there will be shooting. The other doesn’t put the word violent near the word revolt at all. Of course, everything is subjective. It all depends on how many people interpret something in a particular way. You’re not objectively wrong, but I don’t believe the majority of folks reading share your same view.
- arrrg 6y agoEven nonviolent protest was never intended to be peaceful. Not in they way many people would use the word “peace”, anyway. “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’” That’s MLK in his letter from a Birmingham jail. Who was completely devoted to nonviolence. Even he made abundantly clear that nonviolence does not equal a lack of pressure or tension.