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I agree, but by allowing some calls to violence and not others, Twitter is placing itself as a judge of what violence is justifiable and what isn't. This is ba
by Miner49er 6y ago
I agree, but by allowing some calls to violence and not others, Twitter is placing itself as a judge of what violence is justifiable and what isn't.
This is basically what politics is - deciding how to fairly apply violence. So Twitter is taking a political stance by only removing some calls. And an especially strong stance if they are going to start judging nation states.
- tsimionescu 6y agoYes, Twitter is obviously doing that. Personally, I find that it would be far more fair for Twitter and FB to allow these accounts but to add editorial notes to their tweets/posts explaining that the company believes strongly that these are falsehoods, or something similar. Even the current "This claim about election fraud is disputed" seems somewhat disingenuous to me.
- Miner49er 6y agoYeah, I would rather Twitter outright ban accounts then just randomly remove tweets. I do think a label is the best solution, especially for accounts that represent a real person or entitity and aren't anonymous.