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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: 2.144s | source
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lykahb ◴[29 May 20 15:34 UTC] No.23351178[source]▶
The neutral companies, such as utilities, online hosting or financial providers serve nearly everyone with little objections - they defer to the law rather than any internal policies. The more selective companies such as newspapers and TV channels are expected to restrict who can get published.

By representing itself both as an open platform and as a company with progressive values, Twitter has put itself into an awkward in-between spot and is bound to create such controversies.

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QuercusMax ◴[29 May 20 15:50 UTC] No.23351412[source]▶
Fact-checking obvious lies is a "progressive value"? Wow, that really shows how bad things have gotten.
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1. conanbatt ◴[29 May 20 16:13 UTC] No.23351805[source]▶
By choosing what to fact-check you can make any agenda. In practical terms there really isn't an "objective truth discoverable by journalism".

I'm pro slander tho, twitter should be able to pin a tweet in every account saying trump has small hands. Americans in general don't see how great chicanery is for a country.