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What do you think the Biden administration would do if they were ignored? Arrest the CEO? Revoke Twitter's corporate charter? Please.

refurb 4y ago
You’ve seen the Senate anti-trust investigation of tech? Pretty sure “playing ball” helps build goodwill with the people who decide whether to break your company up or not. The Taibbi tweets clearly indicate that "connections" buy influence within Twitter. So clearly Twitter sees some benefit to "helping" those in power. Edit: It's specifically called out in Taibbi's tweets. "NetChoice lets Twitter know a “blood bath” awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it's a "tipping point,""
- tomrod 4y ago
  I tried to follow, but this idea makes a record for logical leaps. For those of us not as adept at parsing prognostication via tea leaves, can you connect a senate investigation to moderation actions at Twitter?
thomond 4y ago
This wasn't even the Biden Admin as it was 2020 so it was just the campaign team.
- nonethewiser 4y ago
  Yeah it seems like Twitters political ideology was more operative.
  - deleted 4y ago
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cm2187 4y ago
Collusion doesn't require coercion. In fact that's what the tweet thread refers to at the beginning. It is most likely out of political partisanship.
- lyu07282 4y ago
  Its partisan to remove dick-pics[1]? You really all have lost the plot if you align yourself to the right over this nothing burger of a story. [1] The tweets referenced by the biden team were Hunter Biden dick pics, you can check yourself in the Wayback Machine
  - tohnjitor 4y ago
    - lyu07282 4y ago
      Twitter doesn't delete leaked pornography?!
    - ethanbond 4y ago
      Uh yeah sorry but nude photos posted without the subject’s consent is definitely and clearly against Twitter TOS. And the law!
    - acdha 4y ago
      Do you have citations for either of those claims? Twitter definitely removed pornography which wasn’t labeled or which was posted without the consent of the people involved. As for CSAM, whoever told you that is blatantly lying to you. There are annual reports showing thousands of reports to NCMEC and accounts getting banned - here’s last year: https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/2021-reports-by-esp.pdf https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/202...
    - micromacrofoot 4y ago
      revenge porn is illegal in many jurisdictions
    - aetimmes 4y ago
      > Infamously, Twitter did not even remove reported CSAM until after Musk purchased the company and fired the director of Trust and Safety Source on this? Anecdotally, the reaction of everyone I know working in law enforcement to the Musk purchase and subsequent layoffs was "this is going to make it infinitely more difficult to get CSAM taken down from Twitter".
meetingthrower 4y ago
There was no Biden administration at the time! In fact, there was not conversation with "the government." Twitter were exercising their freedom of speech (or non speech!)
liopleurodon 4y ago
The US government has a history of going after people that say no to them or that they don't like, yes. Qwest is a great example
- headsoup 4y ago
  Or, like, Twitter? I mean it's interesting to see the white hot outrage and political concern burning everywhere over 'rich billionaire owns social media platform.' I mean Zuck must be the devil himself by now then... Or is it Musk's ideological views creating such consternation? In which case, also interesting to see the federal interest.
  - _bohm 4y ago
    Zuck is pretty widely despised…
    - headsoup 4y ago
      Not by the government...
  - lern_too_spel 4y ago
    What federal interest?
  - liopleurodon 4y ago
    another great example, yes
tohnjitor 4y ago
Abraham Lincoln sent federal agents to shut down two newspapers with antiwar sentiment in NYC. Those papers never came back.
- optimalsolver 4y ago
  Good riddance.
- anshumankmr 4y ago
  Quite interesting, considering they had printed what we might now call as "fake news".
Georgelemental 4y ago
They would probably call for more "common-sense" regulation of Big Tech
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refurb 4y ago

You’ve seen the Senate anti-trust investigation of tech? Pretty sure “playing ball” helps build goodwill with the people who decide whether to break your company up or not. The Taibbi tweets clearly indicate that "connections" buy influence within Twitter. So clearly Twitter sees some benefit to "helping" those in power. Edit: It's specifically called out in Taibbi's tweets. "NetChoice lets Twitter know a “blood bath” awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it's a "tipping point,""

tomrod 4y ago
I tried to follow, but this idea makes a record for logical leaps. For those of us not as adept at parsing prognostication via tea leaves, can you connect a senate investigation to moderation actions at Twitter?

thomond 4y ago

This wasn't even the Biden Admin as it was 2020 so it was just the campaign team.

nonethewiser 4y ago
Yeah it seems like Twitters political ideology was more operative.
- deleted 4y ago
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cm2187 4y ago

Collusion doesn't require coercion. In fact that's what the tweet thread refers to at the beginning. It is most likely out of political partisanship.

lyu07282 4y ago
Its partisan to remove dick-pics[1]? You really all have lost the plot if you align yourself to the right over this nothing burger of a story. [1] The tweets referenced by the biden team were Hunter Biden dick pics, you can check yourself in the Wayback Machine
- tohnjitor 4y ago
  - lyu07282 4y ago
    Twitter doesn't delete leaked pornography?!
  - ethanbond 4y ago
    Uh yeah sorry but nude photos posted without the subject’s consent is definitely and clearly against Twitter TOS. And the law!
  - acdha 4y ago
    Do you have citations for either of those claims? Twitter definitely removed pornography which wasn’t labeled or which was posted without the consent of the people involved. As for CSAM, whoever told you that is blatantly lying to you. There are annual reports showing thousands of reports to NCMEC and accounts getting banned - here’s last year: https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/2021-reports-by-esp.pdf https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/202...
  - micromacrofoot 4y ago
    revenge porn is illegal in many jurisdictions
  - aetimmes 4y ago
    > Infamously, Twitter did not even remove reported CSAM until after Musk purchased the company and fired the director of Trust and Safety Source on this? Anecdotally, the reaction of everyone I know working in law enforcement to the Musk purchase and subsequent layoffs was "this is going to make it infinitely more difficult to get CSAM taken down from Twitter".

meetingthrower 4y ago

There was no Biden administration at the time! In fact, there was not conversation with "the government." Twitter were exercising their freedom of speech (or non speech!)

liopleurodon 4y ago

The US government has a history of going after people that say no to them or that they don't like, yes. Qwest is a great example

headsoup 4y ago
Or, like, Twitter? I mean it's interesting to see the white hot outrage and political concern burning everywhere over 'rich billionaire owns social media platform.' I mean Zuck must be the devil himself by now then... Or is it Musk's ideological views creating such consternation? In which case, also interesting to see the federal interest.
- _bohm 4y ago
  Zuck is pretty widely despised…
  - headsoup 4y ago
    Not by the government...
- lern_too_spel 4y ago
  What federal interest?
- liopleurodon 4y ago
  another great example, yes

tohnjitor 4y ago

Abraham Lincoln sent federal agents to shut down two newspapers with antiwar sentiment in NYC. Those papers never came back.

optimalsolver 4y ago
Good riddance.
anshumankmr 4y ago
Quite interesting, considering they had printed what we might now call as "fake news".

Georgelemental 4y ago

They would probably call for more "common-sense" regulation of Big Tech

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