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Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by tombert on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:25PM (#23342868)
A) Twitter has never presented itself as a neutral platform. They've banned white supremacists, dangerous conspiracy nuts like Alex Jones, and even left-leaning people like Destiny when he joked about how he was going to bomb Comcast.

B) Verizon (Comcast, Spectrum, etc...) are closer to something like a utility. I wouldn't be supportive of a water or electricity company not providing services to people I disagree with. Twitter is not a utility, it's a glorified fortune-cookie-sharing site. It's a not a "right", and there's no reason that you should feel entitled to it.

Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by partyboat1586 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:35PM (#23342978)
Twitter is _the_ place where political discourse happens not just _a_ place where it happens. It's an unfortunate state of affairs that they happen to be a private company with a bias.
Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by asdgopiahsogfi on Thursday May 28, 2020 @06:14PM (#23343492)
Here's simple fact check. Twitter is not _the_ place where political discourse happens. You're discussing politics on HN right now.
Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by partyboat1586 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @06:17PM (#23343521)
It's the place that regularly gets quoted on major networks and newspapers. This is a minority website with nowhere near as much impact.
Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by asdgopiahsogfi on Thursday May 28, 2020 @06:23PM (#23343585)
That still doesn't make it _the_ place for political discourse. Reddit gets quoted quite often. Tons of politicians do AMA on Reddit and Facebook. Just because Trump is on Twitter doesn't make it special.
Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by pas on Thursday May 28, 2020 @06:31PM (#23343699)
That's not how these kinds of "facts" work. If someone tried to use this during some kind of proceeding the court will determine this. (Using a jury or not, expert witnesses or not, doesn't matter.)

Usually fact checking "services" like snopes.com, politifact, or WaPo with the pinocchio heads, have a consistent model about what they are willing to touch, how they approach it, and how they determine factualness, etc.

Just throwing out that Twitter is or isn't _the_ platform makes no sense.

Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by partyboat1586 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @06:25PM (#23343616)
Every major public figure is on Twitter. That is the difference. Reddit is still small fry.