Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

Re:Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boy... by miked85 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:27PM (#23448944)

Up until now, many have been cheering Twitter bans and attacking FB for not doing the same since it aligned with their political views. This kind of behavior by tech giants is bad, regardless if you agree or not with who they are suspending or banning.

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Re:Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boy... by aplummer on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:31PM (#23448983)

Maybe it’s good, maybe it’s bad. I think they are a private company with free speech, and people should just not use their products if they don’t like it.

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Re:Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boy... by threatofrain on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:14PM (#23449325)

Yes, I think if people want <public> squares then it's time to think about <public> funding. And is broadband now the road to this public square? If so, is there a problem that all these roads are basically toll roads owned by mega-corps?

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Re:Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boy... by chrisco255 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @03:07PM (#23449772)

Telephones have always been operated by for-profit institutions in the U.S. I much prefer at least one layer of indirection between my computer and the NSA. You put the government in charge of the internet and you'll get censorship.

I'm perfectly fine with the innovation coming from SpaceX and mobile operators with 5G to solve these complex problems. It works well by and large.

As for a publicly funded Twitter, meh, would you use it? Have you used government software? Rarely is it designed and run well.

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Re:Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boy... by paul_f on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:03PM (#23450299)

Remember when everyone was all for net neutrality? This is no different IMO.

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Re:Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boy... by faned on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:05PM (#23449256)

Would you support changing laws to allow Twitter to ban black people from their platform?

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Re:Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boy... by renewiltord on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:29PM (#23449444)

I think the constraints on these companies should be the same as in normal public discourse.

It is strange to me that I can talk to someone on the street about how I'm trying to minimize my consumption of Chinese goods and how this is worthwhile and no one would bat an eye but that that is somehow offensive online.

We can then decide if we want to regulate general public discourse about what we're talking about.

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Re:Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boy... by Fjolsvith on Monday June 08, 2020 @07:53AM (#23455728)

Twitter is not a free speech platform. Simple.

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Re:Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boy... by valuearb on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:38PM (#23450588)

Straw horse argument.

And as a private business I’m pretty sure they can ban anyone they want for any reason.

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Re:Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boy... by unethical_ban on Sunday June 07, 2020 @05:03PM (#23450794)

No, it is an inconsistency in the application of the rules.

What is the rationale from Twitter? That wanting reduced dependence on trade with an Authoritarian dictatorship is bad? That the caricature of China as a dragon is offensive? What?

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Re:Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boy... by chongli on Sunday June 07, 2020 @03:49PM (#23450168)

No, the bad thing is that they’re tech giants in the first place. If they weren’t so big, they wouldn’t have so much power, and thus there wouldn’t be a problem at all.

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