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Here's the NY Post on Twitter's update to their own hacked materials rule, which suggests that NY Post is not in violation of Twitter's updated policies: https:
by throwawaysea 6y ago
Here's the NY Post on Twitter's update to their own hacked materials rule, which suggests that NY Post is not in violation of Twitter's updated policies: https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/twitter-changes-hacked-materials-guidelines-after-post-controversy/ https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/twitter-changes-hacked-materia...
As a reminder, there are numerous past instances where Twitter did not apply the same policies that were used to shut down NY Post: 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...
This selective application of policy is evidence of Twitter's bias, which I assume results from the bias of their leadership team and employee base. A company this big, which this much influence, cannot be trusted to operate the digital public square for an entire nation, let alone the world. It is a threat to speech, since the reach of these platforms is such that speech effectively doesn't exist if it isn't on these platforms. We need competing platforms badly, but it is hard to challenge the first-mover advantage of network effects of Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. Perhaps we simply need to instead regulate them so that they do not deplatform/censor content that does not break the law.