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> Twitters official policy is to not allow publication of hacked material or information with Personally Identifying Information - and this material was hacked
by eitland 6y ago
> Twitters official policy is to not allow publication of hacked material or information with Personally Identifying Information - and this material was hacked and had unredacted personal email addresses
I think the idea is that if this is the rule, a lot of Republicans think it has already been broken a number of times against them.
- bananabreakfast 6y agoHa, against "them". All republicans. As a monolith. As if they are a sports team. This sums up the central problem in modern politics as a whole right here.
- Fishysoup 6y agoIt does tend to be the case in the last years. Being affiliated with the party of Trump and McConnell is a choice, and means condoning their behavior to a certain extent. You can be a conservative and not a Republican, but if you call yourself a Republican you're effectively endorsing corruption and hatred.
- revscat 6y agoThe downvotes are baffling if unsurprising. The Republican Party is based on racism and hatred, and opposes democracy. For some reason this rather obvious fact is a controversial statement to make here. It’s like HN is stuck in 1990’s-era equivocation or something.
- ghomrassen 6y agoI would imagine the opposite side would say the same.
- zalkota 6y agoSupporting democrats is supporting the looting and burning of buildings. Pick your poisons champ!
- rayiner 6y agoThat’s not really a realistic position in our two-party system. You either call yourself a Republican, or you align with the party that had to be brow-beaten into condemning riots.
- esoterica 6y agoSo you'd rather align yourself with the party that won't condemn white supremacists even after being brow-beaten into doing so?
- retox 6y agohttps://streamable.com/sr9o2s https://streamable.com/sr9o2s
- esoterica 6y agoWhen you repeatedly go through the cycle of blaming "both sides" and telling white supremacists to "stand by", and then making your press office issue a correction after the fact when enough people complain about it, that doesn't count as condemning white supremacists.
- skinkestek 6y agoThe left has been far worse this time. Also the "fine folks on both sides" seems to be about the people demonstrating for or against monuments, not the violent ones on either side.
- ookblah 6y agoi always found this argument lacking, like what is that supposed to show me... that there were these 20 times he denounced them and then this VERY publicly one time he didn't? like imagine this was like child trafficking or something. you denounce that shit heavily each and every time, no ambiguity, no question. even if you're asked to do it 50 times it should be 50/50. the fact that people have to pull that as a "defense" is ridiculous lol.
- techdragon 6y agoModern? George Washington warned about this in his farewell address. 8 years after the United States of America began this was already becoming a problem! George Washington on “the spirit of party” in his farewell address: > It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoDo you have any examples of someone's non-public contact information being shared without a response? Their guidelines permit discussion and linking to press stories of hacks provided they don't include someone’s private information, information that could put people at risk of physical harm or danger; and/or information related to trade secrets.
- Natsu 6y agoBlue Leaks comes to mind.
- newacct583 6y agoWas that shared on Twitter?
- Natsu 6y agoYes: https://twitter.com/blue_leaks https://twitter.com/blue_leaks This one is more also nefarious than it looks, because it includes private information on victims of crime.
- newacct583 6y agoHow is Hunter Biden not the victim of this crime? Even if you believe the laptop story, his data was stolen. But you're right. Blue Leaks, if they share hacked personal data on Twitter, should absolutely be banned under the same policy.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoThey were. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/twitter-has-permanently-banned-the-group-that-published-the-blueleaks-police-files-obtained-by-hackers/ar-BB15UOjJ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/twitter-has-perman...
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