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This is good news. But I think society is in a bad place already. This incident showed how vulnerable we are to the arbitrary whims of big tech (not just social
by throwawaysea 6y ago
This is good news. But I think society is in a bad place already. This incident showed how vulnerable we are to the arbitrary whims of big tech (not just social media), who increasingly are becoming gatekeepers/editors/censors rather than providing neutral platforms. In this case, Twitter was caught red handed because of a long history of other 'hacked material' that has been allowed on their platform (https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/15/11-hacks-leaks-and-hoaxes-that-twitter-and-facebook-didnt-throttle-because-they-hurt-trump/ https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/15/11-hacks-leaks-and-hoax...), but bias/deplatforming/censoring has become so bad that I would have not been surprised at all if they made no change to the policy and just continued operating with open political bias.