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Twitter suspends account tracking Ghislaine Maxwell trial
- bko 5y agoThey also suspended Nancy Tracker [0], a twitter account tracking Nancy Pelosi's stock trades. Something else I noticed that I think has changed is the follower counts on suspended accounts, which is only available on the app. It may have always been hidden on the web. I get it, they're a private platform. But if they're acting on behalf of powerful state actors, how can we say that's not suppression on speech? The white house has admitted that they're in direct contact with social media platforms even going so far as tagging posts for "misinformation" [1]. In theory the state can't restrict the speech on social media. But in practice they don't even need to. [0] https://twitter.com/NancyTracker https://twitter.com/NancyTracker [1] https://mleverything.substack.com/p/what-would-government-censorship https://mleverything.substack.com/p/what-would-government-ce...
- jevoten 5y agoA commenter in that Twitter thread claims it was banned "Because it was a dodgy account!", but doesn't explain how it was "dodgy" - any ideas? > if they're acting on behalf of powerful state actors, how can we say that's not suppression on speech? It's suppression of speech either way. The only difference state actors make is if the 1st amendment forbids it.