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Re:Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make ... by tarancato on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:13AM (#12651762)
This thread went from 2nd most voted to killed immediately. dang, what can you tell us about this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12651429 (you need showdead=yes in your profile to see it)
Re:Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make ... by gjm11 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:56AM (#12652002)
Seems pretty obvious to me: a combination of (1) gratuitously political and (2) gratuitously hysterical. ("Progressive-supremacist"? Really?)
Re:Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make ... by cronjobber on Thursday October 06, 2016 @09:03AM (#12652055)
It's only moral supremacy, not sure that counts.
Re:Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make ... by atom-morgan on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:27AM (#12651832)
HackerNews has started to feel a bit like Twitter lately.
Re:Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make ... by cronjobber on Thursday October 06, 2016 @09:00AM (#12652032)
They love it when eyeballs write content for free.

They hate it when it isn't exactly what they'd have written themselves.

Re:Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make ... by ihsw on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:57AM (#12652008)
The votes were going up and down pretty quickly and hard, HN has a well-established policy of killing controversial threads and submissions.

I don't blame the mods for killing it, and nobody should jump to conclusions or accuse censorship. I think it's perfectly understandable.

Re:Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make ... by sctb on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:02PM (#12655616)
We don't kill comments except when banning users (and in nearly all cases we'll say that we're doing so), and have well-established policy of not doing that. When a comment is dead and says [flagged], it means that users flagged it.
Re:Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make ... by driverdan on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:29AM (#12651850)
Saying a well-liked company should fail does not go well around here, especially when they make wild, conspiracy-like accusations with absolutely no supporting evidence.
Re:Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make ... by tarancato on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:41AM (#12651906)
Twitter chose this long list of liberal-leaning associations to "police" the community. I don't think it's a conspiracy-like accusation to say their moderation leans to the left. https://blog.twitter.com/2016/announcing-the-twitter-trust-s...
Re:Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make ... by gjm11 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:03PM (#12654067)
Except that:

1. Those organizations aren't there to "police" the community. Here are Twitter's actual words about what they're meant to do:

"The Twitter Trust and Safety Council provides input on our safety products, policies, and programs."

Notably not listed there: having any direct power over the Twitter community.

2. The reason why Twitter introduced this thing is that they were getting a lot of flack from people and groups who "lean to the left", for allegedly being a cesspool of the sort of abuse that people and groups who "lean to the left" get most upset about, and not doing anything about it.

I don't know whether those accusations were 100% wrong, 100% right, or somewhere in between. But when a company is attacked for doing or allowing something allegedly bad, it's hardly a surprise if the people it gets onside to try to show it's addressing the problem are the sort of people who most disapprove of whatever it was.

Re:Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make ... by SixSigma on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:58AM (#12652022)
The headline is flat out wrong, TWTR is the highest price it has been in a year