Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by bredren on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @04:06PM (#23329219)

This presumes equal weight of all content. Some content gets far more attention and thus must face a higher degree of scrutiny. This is the only way to curate at scale.

Apple does this with the App Store, where it is possible to get away with breaking app store rules if the app is not downloaded very often. It is not worth the time and energy for Apple to challenge apps that no one is downloading in the first place.

On twitter, with regard to illegal content it also has to matter the degree. How illegal / and reprehensible is it? How often is this tweet being requested?

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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by hadtodoit on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @04:20PM (#23329410)

Twitter has some automated method of determining whether a tweet is NSFW and it is very accurate to the point where I didn't even realize they allowed that content. They can figure out how to filter illegal content as well.

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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by bredren on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:06PM (#23331783)

I believe this is the basis for conservative opinion on this. The trouble is, even offline there is no universal 'filter' for illegality.

Law enforcement must also work at scale, and focus on illegal behavior that is having the most impact.

When a court finds this power is used improperly, such as the arrest of Stormy Daniels in Columbus, Ohio, there are penalties.

For something like this to stand, I believe conservatives will have to prove major examples conservative bias. Unfortunately, the tweets in question so far will not be great evidence of that.

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