More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts

Re:More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of... by scohesc on Friday July 24, 2020 @10:04AM (#23939635)

You know, I used to think that locking down certain websites to citizens of the country the website resides in was a bad thing.

Now with the advent of all these apparent "bots", "state actors", etc. etc. I'm starting to think it might not be a bad idea.

There's a bunch of "what-ifs" however like "what if the government starts removing content it doesn't like", "should you be able to be banned from the platform?", etc.

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Re:More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of... by anonunivgrad on Friday July 24, 2020 @10:41AM (#23940077)

At least within the US, I think sufficiently large platforms should not be allowed to censor on the basis of viewpoint. But that is exactly the kind of political question that nation states, not international forces, should be answering.

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Re:More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of... by suizi on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:30PM (#23969625)

The biggest problem is we've allowed them to become so big they're capable of doing that. The rise of censor culture hasn't helped and is heaped on by advertisers and the media.

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