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The "old Twitter" pretty much did whatever various governments told them to do. The FBI literally had a jira board for suspending accounts with stories worked
by JPKab 2y ago
The "old Twitter" pretty much did whatever various governments told them to do.
The FBI literally had a jira board for suspending accounts with stories worked by Twitter. You can see how this started with the noble purpose of shutting down state sponsored trolls, but it eventually morphed into "that RFK jr guy is a loon and is threatening people's lives by spreading anti-vax sentiment, delete that tweet".
- matthewdgreen 2y agoThe old Twitter had a vigorous legal team that fought a number of government requests, particularly the ones that involved secret court orders. Most of those people were wiped out in the first round of layoffs. The new Twitter selectively fights requests on high-profile issues that align with the owner’s politics.
- valianteffort 2y agoSo the new twitter using less resources available to it is fighting less requests that are still blatant attempts by governments to exercise control over media narrative. Got it. There is no mental gymnastics or wordplay you can perform to justify quasi-fascist bureaucrats from hiding the truth.
- ehvatum 2y agoThe old twitter had a vigorous compliance team that slavishly obeyed government requests, particularly the ones that involved secret court orders. Most of those people were wiped out in the first round of layoffs. The new Twitter has no such team nor impulse and ignores censorship requests, fighting them only when the courts get involved.
- tumsfestival 2y agoYeah, which is why they're complying with India's request for censorship and not fighting back... It's almost as if they're okay with working with authoritarian governments but don't give a shit if the nation in question is left leaning or not run by a fascist demagogue.
- consumer451 2y agoReceipts: > Elon Musk, the owner of social media network Twitter, said the platform has no choice but to follow local laws in every country. https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/twitter-has-no-choice-but-to-obey-local-laws-in-every-country-elon-musk-123062101371_1.html https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/twitt...
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- bequanna 2y agoThis isn’t fair at all. Previous Twitter had just as much (if not more) political bias in their censorship decisions as Elon.