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Aside from the censorship issue, Twitter is making a mockery of its own policy. Twitter is ostensibly blocking this article under their, "no hacks or leaks may
by StanislavPetrov 6y ago
Aside from the censorship issue, Twitter is making a mockery of its own policy. Twitter is ostensibly blocking this article under their, "no hacks or leaks may be linked to" policy, while only a couple of weeks ago the story about the Trump tax returns (derived from a leak) was all over Twitter without being suppressed at all. If Twitter is going to arbitrarily choose which news to censor it should do so without using the fig leaf of a policy that Twitter itself openly violates.
- cblconfederate 6y agoTwitter isnt required to be impartial, they are allowed to editorialize to their preference like all the media does. There's a certain anomaly in the US that doesn't provide other media with the same legal protections, but that's something to work on
- StanislavPetrov 6y agoTwitter isn't required to be impartial, but you'd think they'd want to avoid openly painting themselves as lying hypocrites. If they are going to censor news they don't like, they'd be better off just censoring it rather than putting on the patently false charade of pretending they have a standard which is being violated. A simple, "we reserve the right to remove any and all content posted" would suffice, instead of pretending to be impartial arbiters of truth.