Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by donohoe on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:03PM (#24795374)

My editorialization aside, Twitters stated reason is that the images contained in the articles include personal and private information (email addresses and phone numbers) which violate our rules.

That (to me) is valid in itself. I do wonder, had they redacted things properly then this would all be a non-issue.

To your example; my understanding is that Trump's taxes did not in the same way (by this I mean things like Trump org address etc isn't a private address). I have not dug deep into those articles to say that with 100% certainty.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by zajio1am on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:23PM (#24797128)

I would say that content of my tax return is much more private information than my home address.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by Wolfenstein98k on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:44AM (#24798192)

That may be true but that was a reason they used later, as an excuse.

Hence they don't ban the Web Archive mirror (which has a static URL), and they don't ban any of the previous leaks about Trump taxes, health records, etc.

Not to mention Wikileaks - by definition that is a trove of email addresses and completely uncensored private information that you can tweet with impunity right now.

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