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wow. It's almost like you haven't been around the past month. Did you even read the Twitter files? They were banning and shadow-banning all sorts of people!

by starkd 4y ago

wow. It's almost like you haven't been around the past month. Did you even read the Twitter files? They were banning and shadow-banning all sorts of people! (They just called it "visibility filtering").

yifanl 4y ago
I am aware, but my point is that I'm decently confident that all big social media sites do what twitter does, on top of allowing community moderation tools, which Twitter largely does not.
- starkd 4y ago
  "Everybody does it" is not an argument. It doesn't mean it was right or even done the right way.
  - guerrilla 4y ago
    The original claim is that Twitter was the least moderated. The argument was an argument in support of that. You're tilting at windmills, arguing against claims nobody made.
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OrvalWintermute 4y ago
Some of the govt-twitter censorship angle has been a real expose Looking forward to more of these twitter file releases.
- TOMDM 4y ago
  Can you link the govt-twitter censorship tweets? From what I saw it was just some people on Bidens campaign team reaching out asking Twitter to take down some tweets that contained leaked nudes of Bidens son, in line with Twitters ToS. I feel like I've missed the boat on this, everyone is pointing at a smoking gun, but I haven't seen it yet.
  - OrvalWintermute 4y ago
    https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281
  - starkd 4y ago
    Here's the last dump: part 5. From there you should be able to find the previous. It's not just about "some nudes of Biden's son". It is about the suppression of a NY Post story about a laptop his son lost. It had details about conversations and taking money from foreign nationals. Supposedly, it was deemed Russian disinformation, but that was all a lie. It was real. https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515 https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515

by starkd 4y ago

yifanl 4y ago

I am aware, but my point is that I'm decently confident that all big social media sites do what twitter does, on top of allowing community moderation tools, which Twitter largely does not.

starkd 4y ago
"Everybody does it" is not an argument. It doesn't mean it was right or even done the right way.
- guerrilla 4y ago
  The original claim is that Twitter was the least moderated. The argument was an argument in support of that. You're tilting at windmills, arguing against claims nobody made.
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OrvalWintermute 4y ago

Some of the govt-twitter censorship angle has been a real expose Looking forward to more of these twitter file releases.

TOMDM 4y ago
Can you link the govt-twitter censorship tweets? From what I saw it was just some people on Bidens campaign team reaching out asking Twitter to take down some tweets that contained leaked nudes of Bidens son, in line with Twitters ToS. I feel like I've missed the boat on this, everyone is pointing at a smoking gun, but I haven't seen it yet.
- OrvalWintermute 4y ago
  https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281
- starkd 4y ago
  Here's the last dump: part 5. From there you should be able to find the previous. It's not just about "some nudes of Biden's son". It is about the suppression of a NY Post story about a laptop his son lost. It had details about conversations and taking money from foreign nationals. Supposedly, it was deemed Russian disinformation, but that was all a lie. It was real. https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515 https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515