Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting

Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by jtbayly on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @06:44PM (#24782589)

Of course the factuality is a big deal. But Twitter didn’t discover the story was false and then remove it. Rather they decided that because the information came from a hack that it couldn’t be posted on their site. If anything they confirmed it was true by doing this.

Magine if they had applied this to WikiLeaks.

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by srtjstjsj on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @09:31PM (#24783807)

There are two possibilities: Either it's really a hack or it's a felonious attempt to manipulate an election. Or it's both -- a hack of personal private photos and also fake emails feloniously manipulating an election. Either way, a ban is appropriate.

Saying "if it's true, it's ban able for X" without out bothering to say that obviously it's bannable if it's false, isn't saying it's true. How could Twitter even know?

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by jtbayly on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:14AM (#24784870)

So Wikileaks should have been suppressed?

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by takeda on Thursday October 15, 2020 @08:01PM (#24795869)

You think their AWS account wasn't cancelled after they leaked pentagon cables?

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