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Or to rephrase "who wants to see the platform not limited to attacks on conservatives only"

hn_acker 2y ago
What kind of platform are you talking about? Not pre-Elon Musk Twitter, I hope [1]. > We have, of course, discussed all this before, but now the Washington Post got its hands on a video recording of an internal Twitter meeting right before the January 6th attack on the Capitol, in which they discussed how to handle the growing calls for violence. > Nothing in the video is surprising, as it all confirms what’s been said before, but it does provide more evidence. The video, and testimony from some people involved in this and related meetings, were part of why the January 6th Committee highlighted just how far Twitter staff bent over backwards to protect Trump and conservatives on the platform. > And, it’s confirming what a former Twitter trust & safety employee testified under oath, about how when they saw a tweet by Donald Trump that clearly violated the site’s policies, the decision Twitter’s leadership made was to rewrite the rules to effectively exempt Trump’s tweet. > That’s not even getting into the many studies, both internal and external to Twitter, that showed no evidence of anti-conservative bias in Twitter’s moderation policies. In fact, Twitter’s own research showed that it favored conservative tweets, with its algorithm promoting them more than non-conservative tweets. [1] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/internal-twitter-video-reveals-twitter-bent-over-backwards-to-protect-trump-and-pro-trump-insurrectionists/ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/internal-twitter-video-r...
dyauspitr 2y ago
They’re actively censoring liberals. First amendment rights my ass.
- lazyeye 2y ago
  I would be interested to see the evidence that liberals are being censored *MORE* than Republicans. No doubt many people of all political stripes are being kicked off or censored on the platform for a variety of reasons. And the left-wing media will be amplifying things when it's happening to liberals.

What kind of platform are you talking about? Not pre-Elon Musk Twitter, I hope [1]. > We have, of course, discussed all this before, but now the Washington Post got its hands on a video recording of an internal Twitter meeting right before the January 6th attack on the Capitol, in which they discussed how to handle the growing calls for violence. > Nothing in the video is surprising, as it all confirms what’s been said before, but it does provide more evidence. The video, and testimony from some people involved in this and related meetings, were part of why the January 6th Committee highlighted just how far Twitter staff bent over backwards to protect Trump and conservatives on the platform. > And, it’s confirming what a former Twitter trust & safety employee testified under oath, about how when they saw a tweet by Donald Trump that clearly violated the site’s policies, the decision Twitter’s leadership made was to rewrite the rules to effectively exempt Trump’s tweet. > That’s not even getting into the many studies, both internal and external to Twitter, that showed no evidence of anti-conservative bias in Twitter’s moderation policies. In fact, Twitter’s own research showed that it favored conservative tweets, with its algorithm promoting them more than non-conservative tweets. [1] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/internal-twitter-video-reveals-twitter-bent-over-backwards-to-protect-trump-and-pro-trump-insurrectionists/ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/internal-twitter-video-r...

dyauspitr 2y ago

They’re actively censoring liberals. First amendment rights my ass.

lazyeye 2y ago
I would be interested to see the evidence that liberals are being censored *MORE* than Republicans. No doubt many people of all political stripes are being kicked off or censored on the platform for a variety of reasons. And the left-wing media will be amplifying things when it's happening to liberals.