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Twitter’s official statement on this is one for the history books: https://mobile.twitter.com/Policy/status/1349059275461685250 https://mobile.twitter.com/Poli

Twitter’s official statement on this is one for the history books: https://mobile.twitter.com/Policy/status/1349059275461685250 https://mobile.twitter.com/Policy/status/1349059275461685250

wolco5 6y ago
It's strange how they think they are part of an open internet movement.
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- zionic 6y ago
  Maintaining the illusion is an important part of any propagandists toolset. Of course your enemies will see right through it, this kind of content is produced for the people you have thoroughly cut off from all other sources of information. It reenforces the the true believer's inner narrative that they are a part of GoodGuyInc.
eplanit 6y ago
Wow, exactly. The phrase of the day is "Cognitive Dissonance".
have_faith 6y ago
What's the link? twitter banning a single user for repeatedly breaking the rules is comparable to a countries government banning the social network ahead of an election? seems tenuous.
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Anon1096 6y ago
> Access to information and freedom of expression, including the public conversation on Twitter, is never more important than during democratic processes, particularly elections. The jokes write themselves
Darmody 6y ago
It's funny. The first tweet condemns internet shutdowns. In the second tweet they say they suspended a number of accounts targeting the election in Uganda.
walkedaway 6y ago
:facepalm: Of course, it's not the first time Jack has been a hypocrite. Remember when he donated millions to Kaep right after Kaep glorified and encouraged rioting and violence (via tweets)? Ah, those were the days.
sergiotapia 6y ago
Hilarious - it should be abundantly clear that Twitter are the guys.
kube-system 6y ago
I don't think so. There's a big difference between a reactive censorship of a single powerful person by Twitter and the proactive censorship of an entire population of people with very little power by a government -- both functionally and philosophically. Trump can summon a press conference 24/7 and have his message broadcast to the entire world. He controls publication on multiple personal and government websites. What comparable publication powers do the people of Uganda have besides social media? The impact of censorship is only relevant in the context of power.
- LordFast 6y ago
  Trump wasn't banned before the elections. He wasn't banned after Charlottesville, and then wasn't banned for 3.5 more years while he continued to undermine American institutions. He was only banned after refusing to accept the election results and inciting insurrection with conspiracies. People are /really/ reaching for something that isn't there. To be clear, I don't think Twitter is "the good guy", but the comments in this subthread are very disappointing.
  - slothtrop 6y ago
    This after repeatedly violating rules that tend to get other uses banned.
    - LordFast 6y ago
      Twitter always said they had more lenient rules for world leaders, and that part makes sense, since anyone that is an elected public official needs to communicate with the public and sometimes talk about controversial topics. But if that elected official is refusing to accept the same system that elected them in the first place, then that's a logical dead-end and no amount of reasoning will do any good, or even matter in that case. Without the framework of elections, there is no such thing as an elected official.
cpursley 6y ago
Are the people running Twitter high 24-7 or just during election season?

Twitter’s official statement on this is one for the history books: https://mobile.twitter.com/Policy/status/1349059275461685250 https://mobile.twitter.com/Policy/status/1349059275461685250

wolco5 6y ago

It's strange how they think they are part of an open internet movement.

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zionic 6y ago
Maintaining the illusion is an important part of any propagandists toolset. Of course your enemies will see right through it, this kind of content is produced for the people you have thoroughly cut off from all other sources of information. It reenforces the the true believer's inner narrative that they are a part of GoodGuyInc.

eplanit 6y ago

Wow, exactly. The phrase of the day is "Cognitive Dissonance".

have_faith 6y ago

What's the link? twitter banning a single user for repeatedly breaking the rules is comparable to a countries government banning the social network ahead of an election? seems tenuous.

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Anon1096 6y ago

> Access to information and freedom of expression, including the public conversation on Twitter, is never more important than during democratic processes, particularly elections. The jokes write themselves

Darmody 6y ago

It's funny. The first tweet condemns internet shutdowns. In the second tweet they say they suspended a number of accounts targeting the election in Uganda.

walkedaway 6y ago

:facepalm: Of course, it's not the first time Jack has been a hypocrite. Remember when he donated millions to Kaep right after Kaep glorified and encouraged rioting and violence (via tweets)? Ah, those were the days.

sergiotapia 6y ago

Hilarious - it should be abundantly clear that Twitter are the guys.

kube-system 6y ago

I don't think so. There's a big difference between a reactive censorship of a single powerful person by Twitter and the proactive censorship of an entire population of people with very little power by a government -- both functionally and philosophically. Trump can summon a press conference 24/7 and have his message broadcast to the entire world. He controls publication on multiple personal and government websites. What comparable publication powers do the people of Uganda have besides social media? The impact of censorship is only relevant in the context of power.

LordFast 6y ago
Trump wasn't banned before the elections. He wasn't banned after Charlottesville, and then wasn't banned for 3.5 more years while he continued to undermine American institutions. He was only banned after refusing to accept the election results and inciting insurrection with conspiracies. People are /really/ reaching for something that isn't there. To be clear, I don't think Twitter is "the good guy", but the comments in this subthread are very disappointing.
- slothtrop 6y ago
  This after repeatedly violating rules that tend to get other uses banned.
  - LordFast 6y ago
    Twitter always said they had more lenient rules for world leaders, and that part makes sense, since anyone that is an elected public official needs to communicate with the public and sometimes talk about controversial topics. But if that elected official is refusing to accept the same system that elected them in the first place, then that's a logical dead-end and no amount of reasoning will do any good, or even matter in that case. Without the framework of elections, there is no such thing as an elected official.

cpursley 6y ago

Are the people running Twitter high 24-7 or just during election season?