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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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1061 points danso | 1 comments | 29 May 20 07:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tomp ◴[29 May 20 11:12 UTC] No.23348595[source]▶
This is amazing news, and I hope Twitter adopts this policy for all rules violations. Much better than deleting tweet or banning accounts, this lets people decide what they want to see. (Except for obvious spammers etc. which should probably be banned.)

Even better would be if there were user-configurable "lists", whereby you could decide upfront what you want / don't want to see (like many sites do right now with NSFW content) - the default filter would be very "protective" (no porn, no violence, no gore, no hate speech) but users could turn off any or all of these "filters". The next step is the addition of user-curated "lists" / "filters" (e.g. "no democrats", "no republicans", "no vegans", "no dog lovers", ...).

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floatingatoll ◴[29 May 20 14:38 UTC] No.23350401[source]▶
They made clear when they introduced this that the “view tweet anyways” approach applies only when the public interest for an account of a public official outweighs the significant harm they consider to be done by allowing what you describe for all users in general. I don’t expect they intend to change their mind on that.
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gowld ◴[29 May 20 15:04 UTC] No.23350746[source]▶
Most websites hide NSFW content behind a click. That's good manners. Why shouldn't Twitter?
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1. floatingatoll ◴[29 May 20 15:06 UTC] No.23350784[source]▶
Twitter already does hide NSFW ("objectionable") content behind a click, removing it only when it violates the platform rules of conduct.

They evaluated and rejected hiding "violates Twitter policies" content except in the rare cases where they deem it necessary for the public interest to retain that violating content behind a click barrier.

https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/offensive-tw... has more details about the current policy, and you can read their blog posts from the past couple years about these policies to gain more context and background.