Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by Spooky23 on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:14PM (#24902623)

The Post was the newspaper with the good sports page and sport betting odds when I was growing up.

The paper version pretty much is just that today. Online, it’s a different spin looking for a similar audience. Instead of cranky Jets fans, it’s targeting blue collar conservatives. The quality is much lower imo — they run native content that looks like Taboola.

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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by dionian on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:33PM (#24903654)

So? I don't want Twitter deciding what I can and can't read.

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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by Spooky23 on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:46PM (#24903731)

Fortunately, Twitter hasn’t taken down www.nypost.com.

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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by olliej on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:13AM (#24904870)

I just checked, and yes Twitter can, just like you can’t force any business you want to stock copies of the nypost.

Also nypost.com is a thing.

The reality is that plenty of sites use Twitter as an essentially free billboard ad. Then get upset when they’re told they can’t put whatever they want on a billboard on private property, especially one that they have no contract to use, nor pay rent for.

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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by IG_Semmelweiss on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @07:40AM (#24906443)

Ok. Except they happen to be the billboard of the world

Size matters. A highway billboard and a world billboard are not the same. Thats why we have antitrust laws. Microsoft doesnt get to do whatever it wants just because its a sovereign company. Twitter Goog Fb should not leverage protections originally intented for sites like HN

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