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> Otherwise Twitter is interfering in foreign diplomacy and governments, be they legal, illegal, authoritarian or democratic. > Twitter should not be making th
by ardy42 6y ago
> Otherwise Twitter is interfering in foreign diplomacy and governments, be they legal, illegal, authoritarian or democratic.
> Twitter should not be making these calls.
Twitter should totally should be making the calls. If the CCP wants to put a big propaganda poster in my front yard "for diplomatic reasons," I'd tell them to fuck off. Neither I nor Twitter have any obligation to carry the messages of any regime.
If they want to do diplomacy, they can send a representative to the State Department. If their government wants to communicate, let it use mechanisms it actually controls.
- mc32 6y agoMy problem is that this is a decision for the state department, not a blogging platform to make.
- ardy42 6y ago> My problem is that this is a decision for the state department, not a blogging platform to make. I disagree with that strongly. If it was the State Department's decision, I'd have to host the CCP's propaganda in my yard until State Department told me to take it down. Twitter isn't interfering with government-to-government diplomacy, so there's no diplomatic issue here.