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Re:Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trendin... by ZeroGravitas on Saturday January 09, 2021 @07:19PM (#25706695)
Wouldn't this encourage false-flag hashtag squatting? Just figure out what your "enemies" are likely to hashtag, and set up some unpleasant accounts to use the tags before they do.
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Re:Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trendin... by maram on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:01PM (#25707067)
Who is the enemy here? The people or governments? Arab spring succeeded in Tunisia because real time news sharing was faster than state-sponsored-media. The same thing happened in Egypt.

>set up some unpleasant accounts to use the tags before they do.

That's what governments tried to do, but they failed, and were failing. Bots with aged accounts and Tweetdeck got better in 2015.

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