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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: 0.512s | 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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seph-reed ◴[29 May 20 15:37 UTC] No.23351236[source]▶
They fucked this up so badly.

They could have just banned him and said "It's a free country and they felt like it."

Instead they're trying to high-road, and it's.. such a mistake.

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1. carapace ◴[29 May 20 18:41 UTC] No.23353882[source]▶
The high-road leads to where we actually want to be.

I was thinking about what you said in the other thread about trolls, and I think you're off-base. Trolls aren't zen master ego busters, they're the self-hating jerks they seem to be. The "zen master ego buster" story is just another layer of the ego trip.

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2. Veserv ◴[29 May 20 21:38 UTC] No.23355849[source]▶
The high-road leads to Trump agreeing with you that we need to prevent the spread of fake news to protect society. Then, as the duly elected leader sworn to protect society, he takes on that solemn duty and tasks the agency he controls, the FCC (the entity usually tasked with controlling media content), to make sure that all fake news and entities peddling fake news are permanently squashed so that they will not interfere in the upcoming election.