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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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1061 points danso | 2 comments | 29 May 20 07:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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illuminated ◴[29 May 20 12:59 UTC] No.23349385[source]▶
I know it is "never too late" for things like this to happen, but it's definitely late.

One of the main reasons for bad things to happen is the lack of education (which, in turn, leads to resist to change) and, therefore makes people prone to believe to unbelievable things.

Social platforms like Twitter should have long had things like "fact checking" ANY statements and should have restricting not only violence glorifying posts, but also the ones with racial or sexual discrimination and all the others .

It is late, but I like seeing it happen at least for the person with the most "glorifying" record in dividing a society.

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1. metalgearsolid3 ◴[29 May 20 13:26 UTC] No.23349702[source]▶
I disagree that Twitter has been missing "fact checking". Instead I think the problem was bots.

Take an obviously absurd political viewpoint, which nowadays has to be really absurd. Here's an example: Tom Cruise should be president of the United States. Scientology will make America great again.

Sounds pretty fucking absurd, right? But throw in 50 million bots on Twitter and Instagram pretending to be Americans who think Tom Cruise should be president, and now your once absurd view point simply becomes "the other side of the aisle." It's of course all fake.

Unfortunately this exploits the minds of otherwise kind hearted people that do really want to give you a chance to hear you out. It is how democracy should work after all. But the current reality is this "other side" is basically just white supremacists. Full stop. They're not all rotten people, plenty of them were goaded into embracing the hatred because the internet, and all those fucking bots, makes it look normal

WW2 taught us to shut down Nazis right away. Zuckerberg and Dorsey have utterly failed as Americans.

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2. blockmarker ◴[29 May 20 19:02 UTC] No.23354158[source]▶
Are you seriously saying that 49% of US voters are white supremacists? This is one of the most absurd conspiracy theories I have ever heard.