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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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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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riffic ◴[29 May 20 20:36 UTC] No.23355198[source]▶
There have been people making these arguments both for and against for a very long time. Even as an example, on this very site:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I think you'll quickly lean in the opposing view after reviewing those viewpoints, because if Twitter was a utility it would have been declared one at some point in the previous 11 years.

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baq ◴[29 May 20 22:56 UTC] No.23356563[source]▶
how long did it take to break up standard oil? ma bell?
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root_axis ◴[29 May 20 23:26 UTC] No.23356796[source]▶
What would it even mean to break up twitter? How would that work?
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1. baq ◴[30 May 20 09:21 UTC] No.23359739[source]▶
i'm just pointing out 11 years is a very short time for regulators to do anything.
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2. root_axis ◴[30 May 20 17:29 UTC] No.23362879[source]▶
My point is that websites are fundamentally different from resources you extract from the environment and the eagerness by some to treat them as such is specious.