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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: 0.222s | 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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riffic ◴[29 May 20 16:13 UTC] No.23351797[source]▶
Twitter has never been a "Utility" in the way that you may be imagining it to be.
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scaredtobeme ◴[29 May 20 20:12 UTC] No.23354918[source]▶
The argument is that it's getting there. It's the leading platform for public debate in the US right now. Journalists spend their days refreshing their Twitter feed, so the effect isn't just in the size of Twitter's platform but its influence.
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1. qchris ◴[29 May 20 20:29 UTC] No.23355123[source]▶
I'd love to be a fly on the wall when a legal team responsible for supporting this narrative has to tackle the issue of regulating the platforms as a public utility, but not the Internet providers that carry them.