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> Senator Ted Cruz went after Twitter’s Jack Dorsey after the CEO said Twitter has no influence over elections. Is the answer to Senator Cruz's question (from

> Senator Ted Cruz went after Twitter’s Jack Dorsey after the CEO said Twitter has no influence over elections. Is the answer to Senator Cruz's question (from the headline) "The board of directors of Twitter"?

think814 6y ago
Twitter has no influence on elections as much as the Russians didn't influence 2016 elections. All sides think we're stupid at this point.
- hnlurker 6y ago
  Frankly speaking, the weather had more influence on the 2016 election than Russian influence. Russian use of digital platforms like Facebook and Twitter are about as effective as homeopathic medicines on cancer. Yah, there's 1/100000000000 ppm active ingredients in that there remedy, so it's not zero, but... c'mon man.
paulgb 6y ago
Ted Cruz argued vehemently against net neutrality at the physical layer, on the basis that private markets, not governments, should dictate what traffic ISPs allow and prioritize on their pipes. But when there's a perceived bias against conservatives, suddenly he's all for government intervention at the application layer. Cry me a river, Ted.
- Balgair 6y ago
  Ted is not stupid. He went to Princeton (cum laude, '92) and has a Harvard Law degree (magna cum laude, '95). He's acting. The question is why.
- _up 6y ago
  It's not the same though. You can be at the same time for minimizing Government involvement and even allowing ISPs to decide how they prevent/censor business models, but draw a line when they begin to censor political speech.
  - paulgb 6y ago
    It's not that those are impossible stances to reconcile in a vacuum (I agree that they are not). It's the cynical way that he ignored the pleas of everyone who said that abandoning net neutrality would lead to censorship and entrenchment of big tech when it didn't affect him, and then turned around and suddenly saw the problem when he perceived himself and his party as the victim.
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think814 6y ago

Twitter has no influence on elections as much as the Russians didn't influence 2016 elections. All sides think we're stupid at this point.

hnlurker 6y ago
Frankly speaking, the weather had more influence on the 2016 election than Russian influence. Russian use of digital platforms like Facebook and Twitter are about as effective as homeopathic medicines on cancer. Yah, there's 1/100000000000 ppm active ingredients in that there remedy, so it's not zero, but... c'mon man.

paulgb 6y ago

Ted Cruz argued vehemently against net neutrality at the physical layer, on the basis that private markets, not governments, should dictate what traffic ISPs allow and prioritize on their pipes. But when there's a perceived bias against conservatives, suddenly he's all for government intervention at the application layer. Cry me a river, Ted.

Balgair 6y ago
Ted is not stupid. He went to Princeton (cum laude, '92) and has a Harvard Law degree (magna cum laude, '95). He's acting. The question is why.
_up 6y ago
It's not the same though. You can be at the same time for minimizing Government involvement and even allowing ISPs to decide how they prevent/censor business models, but draw a line when they begin to censor political speech.
- paulgb 6y ago
  It's not that those are impossible stances to reconcile in a vacuum (I agree that they are not). It's the cynical way that he ignored the pleas of everyone who said that abandoning net neutrality would lead to censorship and entrenchment of big tech when it didn't affect him, and then turned around and suddenly saw the problem when he perceived himself and his party as the victim.

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